“Did Trump actually dodge the draft? Did his daddy use his power/influence to position him in such a way as to dodge the draft?”
Unless his medical deferment was obtained fraudulently, I don’t see how Trump can be labelled a draft-dodger. 2-S student deferments were routine in the 1960s and early 1970s.
I had the ultimate deferment...... I was declared essential to the war effort and the Navy Captain I worked for wrote my draft board and obtained the deferment.
Not one of my clollege friends was drafted because they all had some deferment or another. Only one of our close group actually served in Vietnam and he was recruited by the Air Force as a pilot. There were two that lived with us that were ROTC and they both graduated as 2nd Lts but were not drafted.