The President’s spurs
To the editor:
President Trump claims that bone spurs on his feet rendered him ineligible for the draft during the Viet Nam War. Recent news reports allege that his father’s business-associate doctors filed false documents supporting this claim. He can easily clear up these allegations by having X-rays taken of his feet and showing the results to the public. Bone spurs do not disappear. If they were there in the ‘60s, they are still there (or the surgery scars). Our Commander in Chief should surely address any doubt that he lied to illegally avoid military service. I believe it will be difficult for both our military and citizenry to respect his authority to put our men and women in uniform into harm’s way while under the specter of an illegal draft-dodge deception, a deception which could be corrected with a simple $150 test.
Demanding this test of him is appropriate because he made quite a spectacle getting Barack Obama to publish his birth certificate to prove citizenship, and Elizabeth Warren to have a DNA test to prove Native American Indian heritage. Until the President produces this X-ray, I for one will think of him as a spurless draft-dodging cowboy, who tried to ride roughshod over a Senator because of her Indian heritage.
Dave Minch
Saugerties
Comments
It would also address some serious concerns regarding the president's private meetings with Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, if Trump released the translator notes of those meetings, which apparently even the Chief of Staff, and national Security Advisor have been denied, as well as the Secretary of State.
We are being asked to send armed services into harms way with secret agreements and unknown arrangements with dictators like Erdogan of Turkey, or Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Recently, we lost lives in Syria after Trump announced our troop withdrawal there causing General Mattis to submit his resignation pretty clearly in protest.
There's a lot more than bone spurs wrong with Trump, and worthy of sunlight and criminal prosecution. His personal attorney just revealed that Trump suborned perjury to the U.S. Congress in obstruction of the ongoing probe into Russian interference with our democracy.