lindajoy wrote:
How many other Presidents never served for whatever reason they came up with?
Off the top of my head Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clinton and Obama didn’t feel it was needed either...There are more too just didn’t bother looking it up..
Clinton received deferments based on preferential treatment towards students ?? what???
Bo, same thing~~deferment For schooling...
So what's your point???
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Actually, lindajoy, there have been 13 presidents who didn’t serve in the military. They are: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert C. Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William J. Clinton, Barack H. Obama, and Donald Trump.
As to what you identify as “deferment for schooling,” they were known as “student deferments.” In order to get them, one needed to be of “draft age’ (18 to 26), be enrolled in a tech school or accredited college/university and have a GPA that is considered to be “passing” by the institution.
“Student deferments” were different than physical disqualifications, such as being almost blind, hard of hearing, or having physical deformities. However, there were some people who managed to convince a doctor(s) that they were unable to physically preform military duties by lying about their ailments. Trump comes to mind here. He claimed to have painful bone spurs that would disqualify him from military duty. Of course, those same bone spurs didn’t keep him from playing intermurial sports in college.
Additionally, and regarding the academic aspect of getting and maintaining a student deferment, there have been several comments by former college classmates of Trump’s who claim that he paid others to take his exams for him. Add to that the fact that Trump had his attorney, Michael Cohen, threaten legal action if the schools he attended ever released his transcripts only adds credence to the claims by his former classmates.
Now, why would he not want his transcripts released? According to Trump, he’s the smartest person in the world. No one knows more than he about anything. In fact, according to him, for someone who never spent 1 day in the military, he claims to know more about the military than even the generals. He claims to know more about business than anyone, too. Never mind that he bankrupted several times, leaving hundreds of contractors, sub-contractors and private citizens screwed out of their rightful earnings. His Trump University was forced to close because federal fraud investigations were going to bring charges against him and his underlings.
Finally, Trump has done his dead-level best to make medical care worse for the military and our vets. VA hospitals, as a whole, have some of the worst records for medical care. Now, Trump says he wants to make medical care more acccessable to our vets. His solution is to allow vets to go to private health care providers instead of making the VA better. By allowing outside medical providers to care for our vets, he’s allowing higher costs to be charged to the VA without any guarantee of better healthcare.
Now, Trump’s wanting to take money away from military projects the Congress has approved and budgeted for and divert their monies to build his “vanity wall” for his made-up crisis.
What’s my point, you ask? I’m a vet. You figure it out.