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October 24, 2017

Sen. John McCain Appears to Criticize Trump Draft Deferments
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Republican Senator John Mc Cain took an apparent swipe at President
Trump over his multiple deferments from the draft during the Vietnam
War-including a 1968 medical exam that declared Trump unfit to serve due
to bone spurs in his heels. Sen. Mc Cain was speaking in an appearance
Monday on ABC's "The View."

Sen. John Mc Cain: "One of the great inequities of the Vietnam conflict
was the lowest-income Americans went and fought and were drafted, and
those who were wealthy enough to have a doctor to say, 'Hey, you've got
a bone spur,' or 'You've got migraines,' or whatever it is, then they
were excused."

Mc Cain made a similar comment to C-SPAN over the weekend. He later
insisted the "bone spur" references weren't directed at the president.
In 2015, then-candidate Donald Trump said Mc Cain was only considered a
war hero because he was captured by the Vietnamese army, adding, "I like
people who weren't captured."


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