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Draft-Dodger Trump Said Sleeping Around Was My ‘Personal Vietnam’
The Daily Beast ^ | February 16, 2016 | Tim Mak

Posted on 02/17/2016 5:32:11 AM PST by katieanna

Draft-dodger Donald Trump once said that the danger he faced from getting sexually transmitted diseases was his own “personal Vietnam.” In a 1997 interview with shock jock Howard Stern, Trump talked about how he had been “lucky” not to have contracted diseases when he was sleeping around. “I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world. It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era,” Trump said in a video that resurfaced Tuesday on Buzzfeed, “It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”


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To: Washi

He has got a rabid following and a fairly rabid opposition


161 posted on 02/17/2016 6:44:14 AM PST by austinaero
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To: austinaero
Hell Austin, I don't approve of some of the things I'VE done in my life.

But, I am making amends (or trying) every day.

Really, that's all one can ask of another.

162 posted on 02/17/2016 6:44:16 AM PST by onona (I've held my nose so long I can't even remember what an election smells like !)
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To: Renegade

Trump got at least four deferments, one for a slight heel spur. He dodged venereal disease bullet what a hero. /sarcasm The more I see of this idiot the more I dislike him.


163 posted on 02/17/2016 6:44:18 AM PST by Cats Pajamas (Any time now Hillary will be bring out the rent-a-dogs!)
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To: eastforker

Was he afraid that if he lived here in the states that he might be drafted?

*************

Not defending Rafael, but Rafael wasn’t a US citizen at that time? Were non citizens
being drafted? Took him until 2005 to decide he needed US citizenship. Wonder if Edward
was hinting about running for President at that time and maybe suggested that papa become a citizen.


164 posted on 02/17/2016 6:45:14 AM PST by deport
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To: LibFreeUSA

YES!!!! Best post on this entire topic!!!


165 posted on 02/17/2016 6:45:17 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: katieanna

“All the men you mentioned repented. Each and every one. If you can show me where Mr. Trump has repented, I could be persuaded. I have not heard it. I have heard him belittle Dr. Carson’s conversion to Christ.”

So everyone who repents to Christ needs to make sure you make note of it? Are you the Gatekeeper? It’s none of your business.


166 posted on 02/17/2016 6:45:52 AM PST by austinaero
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To: onona

“But, I am making amends (or trying) every day.

Really, that’s all one can ask of another.”

Right there with you!


167 posted on 02/17/2016 6:46:30 AM PST by austinaero
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To: tacticalogic

Nope, not at all. But when someone starts throwing around lies about draft dodging maybe everything should be brought to light.When I served I witnessed many draftees in their late 20’s.


168 posted on 02/17/2016 6:47:44 AM PST by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: servantboy777

Here is his draft status during the era.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3398166/posts?page=12#12


169 posted on 02/17/2016 6:48:34 AM PST by deport
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To: austinaero

My comment was to a poster who compared Mr. Trump to King David. All we’re doing is saying the two are not the same. You’ve taken it out of context


170 posted on 02/17/2016 6:48:44 AM PST by katieanna
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To: Rusty0604

I agree, it is an insult. I didn’t sign up for the military during the Viet Nam war. I didn’t like draft dodgers, either. Two friends joined the Army(which meant you served an extra year)in hopes of getting the MOS and avoiding Viet Nam with the duty station of their choice. They advised me to sign up for an extra year. I declined. As bad as the prospect of being sent into a no-win war was, I decided to take my chances with the draft and a year less than these guys. I got drafted and went to Viet Nam, but got out a year earlier than these guys, who went to Viet Nam anyway. Its no less patriotic being drafted than it is in joining. I served, but with the realization that we servicemen were being betrayed by a government that had no intention of winning the war.


171 posted on 02/17/2016 6:48:48 AM PST by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: deport

Yes, non citizens were drafted, so were puerto ricans and exiled cubans living here.


172 posted on 02/17/2016 6:48:59 AM PST by eastforker (The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
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To: Harpotoo
On Howard Stern? Pahhleese!

So when can we trust what he says? I haven't figured out which words are true and which are in jest or misunderstandings. Some of the posters on this site seem to have a special Trump decoder ring to know which of his words and actions are true and which are to be brushed off.

173 posted on 02/17/2016 6:49:21 AM PST by Oliver Boliver Butt
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To: Gaffer

I thought Lindsay Graham, also no longer a candidate, served in the Air Force.


174 posted on 02/17/2016 6:49:24 AM PST by riverdawg
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To: katieanna

They repented AFTER God elevated them, Katie. Don’t you see that? (Except for Paul who was struck down by God until he repented.)

God is in the process of elevating this man.

Or Mrs. Clinton.

What is God’s reason for doing so?


175 posted on 02/17/2016 6:49:30 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Don’t feel bad. I have trouble figuring out sarcasm, too.


176 posted on 02/17/2016 6:49:47 AM PST by Tax-chick (What could go wrong? (Except death ...)
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To: eastforker
Nope, not at all.

Your confidence you your ability to know what he was thinking is impressive.

177 posted on 02/17/2016 6:49:49 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: katieanna

If given a choice between either going back to the A Shau Valley or a tryst with a syphilitic skank, I too would choose a tryst with a syphilitic skank.


178 posted on 02/17/2016 6:51:21 AM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: liberalism is suicide

“I served, but with the realization that we servicemen were being betrayed by a government that had no intention of winning the war.”

Sounds about right, felt the same way especially about the party that got us there.


179 posted on 02/17/2016 6:51:56 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: riverdawg

Yes. You are correct. My bad. Mea Culpa. Apparently he served as a reserve duty lawyer released from service in 1989.


180 posted on 02/17/2016 6:52:07 AM PST by Gaffer
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