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Posted by Fred G on Sat Apr 30 08:55:59 2011, in response to Re: Trump's Latest Scandal: Draft-dodging, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Apr 30 07:28:40 2011. The number isn't in dispute...It's that he claims that his high number was the only reason he didn't serve when in fact he obtained student and medical deferments prior to that. From the article that nobody read: By the time his number (356) was drawn during the December 1, 1969 draft lottery, Trump had already received four student deferments and a medical deferment, according to military records on file with the National Archives and Records Administration. An extract of Trump’s Selective Classification record, seen here, was provided in response to a TSG records request. Therein is the lie. Again, it's not the number that you all focused on. In fact, the December 1969 draft lottery occurred about 18 months after Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied business at the Wharton School. So, while claiming that he would “never forget” being at Wharton watching the draft numbers being drawn, the 64-year-old Trump seems to have misremembered, as candidates are fond of saying. ***Trump obtained his first two Class 2-S student deferments in June 1964 and December 1965, when he was student at Fordham University in the Bronx. He was briefly reclassified as 1-A--or “available for military service”--in late-November 1966, but that classification was switched back to 2-S three weeks later.*** Another 2-S deferment is dated January 16, 1968, just months before his graduation from UPenn (to which he transferred following his sophomore year at Fordham). Looks like you ate up the lie, too. your pal, Fred |
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