Notable examples of those receiving student deferments include Bill Clinton (1 deferment), Joe Biden (5 deferments), and Dick Cheney (5 deferments).
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Trump's deferments Trump attended the private New York Military Academy in high school, but he avoided the draft through a series of education and health deferments.
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The New York Times reported last year that Trump received five deferments from the military draft during the Vietnam War, including four educational deferments and one medical deferment.
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He received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War — and while he earned four deferments for attending college, a fifth deferment was for "bone spurs" on Trump's feet.
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Well, I was going to college, I had student deferments.
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His Vietnam War draft deferments may also be an issue.
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Occupational deferments increased by 650 percent between 1955 and 19713.
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Even those deferments theoretically available to anyone really were not.
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Trump also sought deferments and did not serve in Vietnam. 5.
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With deferments, your interest is usually waived during the deferment period.
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Medical deferments, for example, were harder for poorer men to obtain.
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By 1965, many middle-class men had come to expect deferments.
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Trump received five deferments from military service during the Vietnam War.
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Never forget, Trump used five deferments to avoid the draft in Vietnam.
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But like Blumenthal, he received deferments in order to pursue his education.
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Trump received several deferments from the draft during his time in college.
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It's well documented that the president avoided military service, receiving five deferments.
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He received subsequent student deferments during his sophomore, junior and senior years.
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Trump's military deferments have often been a magnet for criticism from Democrats.
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Deferments are a necessary element of any system of selective military service.
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Also involved could be tax deferments for companies and individual tax filers.
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By mid-1945, only 0.5% of men still held their dependency deferments.
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He received deferments for college education and bone spurs in his feet.
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But transferring medical deferments to ICE has terminated a critically needed program.
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This applies to medical deferments because they prevent the commencement of proceedings.
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Trump's military deferments may become an issue in South Carolina Donald Trump received student and health deferments that kept him out of serving in Vietnam -- and what happened back in those days could soon get interjected into the campaign.
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One was a medical deferment for heel spurs, and four were educational deferments.
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Trump received five deferments to keep him out of the Vietnam War. 2.
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I do not begrudge Mr. Trump's using deferments that many others also pursued.
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The availability of deferments for men attending college and in professional fields ballooned.
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Trump himself received five deferments that got him out of serving in the military.
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Speaking of stories, Donald Trump sought five deferments to get out of Vietnam service.
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Trump has faced criticism over his deferments, especially after he lashed out at Sen.
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Trump received four deferments for college and one for bone spurs in his heels.
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At Notre Dame, Kennedy was booed for saying college draft deferments should be abolished.
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Trump slandered war heroes and Gold Star parents despite getting repeated deferments from Vietnam.
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Most important, 82 percent of them held deferments that protected them from being drafted.
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Mr. Trump himself received five deferments from the draft, including one for bad feet.
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There were reportedly ten draft deferments between Biden and Trump during the Vietnam War.
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But Trump, like Biden, sought deferments to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War.
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He received four military deferments for college, and one for a bone spur diagnosis.
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While Blumenthal enlisted in the Marine Reserve after multiple deferments, Trump -- who was also eligible for the draft during the Vietnam War -- never enlisted, instead obtaining multiple student deferments and ultimately a medical deferment for a bone spur to avoid the military draft.
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Not all of the guilty go to jail; some work out deferments or payment plans.
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Trump himself did not serve, receiving five deferments - one for bone spurs in his heel.
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Lewis B. Hershey's grim statement directly affects the 2.2 million students now holding college deferments.
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There are ways, for example, to postpone your payments through so-called deferments and forbearances.
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Trump received several draft deferments during the war, one for bone spurs in his heels.
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Blumenthal received five deferments and then served in the Marine Reserves during the Vietnam War.
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By 1966, as draft calls increased dramatically, the system of deferments came under intense criticism.
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Trump had received five draft deferments and had very publicly insulted one Gold Star family.
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But now, with our college deferments expiring upon June graduation, our luck might well change.
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And this is a President who received several deferments during Vietnam, including for bone spurs.
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I can understand why DHS would want ICE to handle all of the temporary deferments.
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By contrast, Trump received five draft deferments, including one for temporary "bone spurs" on his heels.
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Including during the Vietnam War when he got five deferments -- including one for bone spurs. 20163.
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He received five deferments from the Vietnam draft, including one for bone spurs in his heels.
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They supported Donald Trump, who infamously took five deferments to avoid service in the Vietnam War.
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He was granted one medical and four education deferments, which kept him out of the conflict.
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Mr. Trump received five deferments from the draft: four for college and one for bad feet.
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President Trump received five deferments during the Vietnam War, one for alleged bone spurs in his feet.
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Despite his own deferments, Trump remained unrepentant, refusing to apologize for his jibe against McCain in 2015.
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He received five military deferments — one for bone spurs, and four for education — during the Vietnam War.
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Include the deferments granted when looking for that first job and the loan grows to nearly $500,000.
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Trump received five deferments, including one for a bone spur diagnosis, and was not required to serve.
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Dick Cheney got himself five deferments — and, O.K., when it came to Dick Cheney we took offense.
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McCain also appeared to target the President's Vietnam War-era military deferments in an interview this week.
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During the Vietnam War, he used his status as a college student to receive four draft deferments.
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Young draftees derided antiwar demonstrators as "draft dodgers," notably those who escaped the draft using college deferments.
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Oh, and he was deferred from military service five times — one of those deferments for his feet.
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Some users referred to Trump's multiple deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War in their tweets.
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The medical deferments, however, are based solely on enforcement discretion, and USCIS is not an enforcement agency.
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Trump received education and medical deferments that prevented his being drafted during the Vietnam War, while Democratic Sen.
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Trump has also received scrutiny over student and health deferments that kept him out of serving in Vietnam.
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The Vietnam War, which Trump famously avoided with dubious draft deferments, is the running theme of these tweets.
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Trump was granted a 1-Y medical deferment due to the diagnosis, in addition to four educational deferments.
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Trump received multiple deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War and did not serve in the military.
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"We have forgiven those who received educational and medical deferments from serving in the war," the letter states.
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Mr. Trump's five draft deferments during the Vietnam War, including one for foot trouble, are under new scrutiny.
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Trump received four draft deferments from Vietnam War for going to college, and one time for heel spurs.
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The president received a number of draft deferments, including a medical exemption for bone spurs in his feet.
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She has labeled him "cadet bone spurs," a reference to Trump's multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam War.
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Mr. Trump, who dodged the Vietnam War with five deferments, has developed an unusual reliance on the military.
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The New York Times on Monday reported that Trump received five deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War.
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He received five draft deferments he received during the Vietnam War, including one for bone spurs in his heels.
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He obtained multiple student deferments and ultimately received a deferment for a bone spur to avoid being called up.
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The president received medical deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War because of bone spurs in his feet.
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Unlike during World War II, most factory and agricultural workers could not gain occupational deferments by the late 1950s.
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Duckworth, an Army veteran who lost her legs while serving in Iraq, appeared to be referencing Trump's draft deferments.
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The current provision could include newly settled tax disputes from previous years, or be lowered by deferments into the future.
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During the Vietnam War, Trump received four draft deferments for college and one for supposed bone spurs in his feet.
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Blumenthal obtained at least five military deferments, according to the Times, before serving in the United State Marine Corps Reserve.
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The fact that a candidate seeking the presidency received military deferments or otherwise avoided fighting in Vietnam is not unusual.
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In theory, deferments should be limited only to those considered more valuable to war aims as civilians than as soldiers.
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He announced executive actions like loans to small businesses and tax payment deferments, but what Trump really needs is Congress.
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CitiFinancial Servicing, the CFPB said, failed to consider borrowers' requests for loan payment deferments as a request for foreclosure relief options.
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The immigration office said that deferments under DACA do not confer legal residency but gives prosecutors discretion on enforcing immigration laws.
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The GOP presidential nominee's comments come amid media reports that he received five draft deferments despite a seemingly unblemished health record.
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Any deferments therefore will disproportionately hit trade houses who must wrangle approvals from producers before diverting the cargoes into other markets.
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Partly because, as McCain points out, those who succeeded in securing draft deferments in the 1960s were often exploiting social inequality.
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It's one thing to support a five-time draft evader because, back then, many men had many reasons for getting deferments.
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Donald Trump received five draft deferments during Vietnam, including one for bone spurs in his feet that he said later healed.
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Members can get help with payment deferments as well as loan extensions for existing loan holders for up to 90 days.
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Trump received multiple deferments for military service during the Vietnam War, and none of his children served in the military either.
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The salary deferments and cuts are in-line with actions taken by Fiat Chrysler's crosstown rivals, General Motors and Ford Motor.
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At one point, Mr. Trump, who received draft deferments and had never served in the military, belittled Mr. McCain's war record.
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Trump received five draft deferments throughout the Vietnam War, and on one occasion, Trump received a deferment because of bone spurs.
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The seemingly light-hearted comments come amid Trump's ongoing controversy with Gold Star families and new reports detailing his own draft deferments.
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Trump was granted one medical and four educational deferments, which kept him out of the conflict, The New York Times reported Monday.
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His military deferments are getting new scrutiny following his feud with the parents of a Muslim U.S. soldier who died in Iraq.
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He sharply criticized Americans from the "highest income level" who were able to obtain draft deferments for ailments like a "bone spur."
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"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart," said Mr. Trump, who received five deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War.
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The immigration moves Mr. Obama made on his own — such as instituting protections for Dreamers and expanding deportation deferments — further enraged conservatives.
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It indicated small business and consumer clients could request payment deferments, with the missed payments added to the end of the loans.
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The circumstances of the Cold War, therefore, granted the Selective Service System license to use deferments as a tool of social engineering.
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Of course, this Trumpian narrative elides his deferments during the Vietnam War and mockery of John McCain's suffering as a prisoner of war.
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Joe Biden, the former vice president also running for President, received five Vietnam deferments for education and was later disqualified because of asthma.
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He received five deferments during the Vietnam War, including one for bone spurs in his heel, the New York Times reported last year.
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This is the same guy who secured five deferments to avoid the Vietnam War, according to the New York Times (August 22019, 2016).
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Trump, the son of a rich father who managed five deferments during Vietnam, has neither Jackson's hardscrabble beginnings nor Old Hickory's impressive achievements.
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Trump then transferred to Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, receiving additional deferments during his sophomore, junior and senior years.
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Trump avoided military service thanks to his deferments — four for education and one for a medical exemption, claiming bone spurs in his heels.
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The new proposal would create a new student loan deferment for entrepreneurs, similar to deferments already offered for internships, residencies, and further study.
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Mr. Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War, including one for bone spurs in his feet that he said later healed.
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Since part-time students did not receive deferments, men could not take semesters off to earn tuition money or recover from academic probation.
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He also revived the controversy surrounding the medical deferments Trump obtained to avoid serving in the Vietnam War claiming he had bone spurs.
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In earlier drafts, there were a number of deferments that could've kept someone from being drafted, such as medical conditions or attending college.
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The program should be restored, but that is not enough Aliens who receive discretionary deferments are subject to removal when the deferment ends.
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Trump attended the private New York Military Academy in high school, but he avoided the draft through a series of education and health deferments.
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In 73, website TheSmokingGun obtained records showing Trump received four deferments in college during the Vietnam War, and a medical deferment after he graduated.
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This comes as Singapore Exchange-listed oil and gas companies reported a wave of impairments and provisions that followed rig delivery deferments and cancellations.
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He is most famous as chief strategist to President Donald Trump, who obtained multiple deferments for the Vietnam War for education and bone spurs.
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Many students with debt use deferments or other plans to delay or extend repayments, but in most cases that increases the balance they owe.
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Mr. Trump, who himself never served in the military, receiving draft deferments during the Vietnam War, clearly understands the power of invoking the military.
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The respondents said they also had not yet seen "measurable" deferments of scheduled procedures due to coronavirus fears, although that could be changing rapidly.
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Some saw a sharp contrast between the somber ceremony and the president's comments about the Vietnam War, during which he received four draft deferments.
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A man who used five deferments to avoid serving his country in the military has no right to question the patriotism of other Americans.
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It is done informally unless the alien is subject to a deportation order, but the procedure for medical deferments at USCIS was informal too.
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Despite having been educated at an elite private military academy, Donald Trump famously drew five draft deferments, including one for bone spurs in his feet.
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It was a clever way to both fend off attacks over gun control and underscore Mr. Blunt's Vietnam deferments in a very pro-military state.
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A politician with a history of racist comments who took five deferments to escape military duty in the Vietnam War, including one for heel spurs?
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Critics at the time and since have identified the Selective Service's system of deferments as the main cause of military inequity during the Vietnam War.
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Trump was not required to serve in the Vietnam War after receiving five deferments: four for attending college and one for a bone spur diagnosis.
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It was only after the Selective Service tightened the regulations governing deferments that the federal government was able to pull so many men into uniform.
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I've ridiculed friends who would ask for exam deferments or homework extensions, siding with those who argue that my generation is coddled by overprotective parents.
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But until that era (without dubious deferments) happens, those who are serving will be the ones suffering and carrying the load for all of us.
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In 1968, after having received four educational draft deferments, Trump got a fifth deferment after he produced a doctor's letter stating that he had bone spurs.
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Like Trump, the Democratic Senator obtained five draft deferments during the war, and Blumenthal entered the Marine Reserve in 1970, ensuring he wouldn't go to Vietnam.
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There has been a bit of a controversy about whether Blunt avoided Vietnam because he drew a high number in the draft or via student deferments.
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Similarly, men who managed to obtain deferments from the draft because their work in industry and agriculture supported the war effort held on to their jobs.
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In total, Trump received five deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War, including one due to heel spurs, bone protrusions caused by a calcium buildup.
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It has authority to grant some types of deferments, such as for participation in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals initiative and for Temporary Protected Status.
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He never served in the Vietnam War after receiving draft deferments from 1964 to 1968 while a college student, later getting an additional deferment for medical reasons.
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Buttigieg addressed the president's five deferments from service, focusing mainly on his 1968 diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels, which earned him his lone medical exemption.
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The main difference between forbearance and deferment options is that interest still accrues in forbearance and some types of deferments, which will make your loan balance bigger.
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Meanwhile, Trump transferred to Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and racked up five draft deferments — four for college, and one for bone spurs in his heels.
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"Donald Trump hasn't served this country a day in his life, essentially dodged the draft in Vietnam through multiple deferments," Waltz says, speaking directly into the camera.
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Looming over the President's visit -- which includes a stop in the Vietnamese capitol of Hanoi -- is the fact that Trump received multiple deferments during the Vietnam War.
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Trump's draft deferments became political issues during the 2016 election, especially after he attacked the family of a fallen solider who spoke at the Democratic National Convention.
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CitiFinancial, meanwhile, must improve disclosure on deferments and stop sending credit raters "bad information" that settle accounts were "charged off" - an indication that the borrower was delinquent.
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That evening came back to me on Tuesday as I read about Donald Trump's multiple student deferments and the bone spurs he said exempted him from service.
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I am about the same age as Trump and during the Vietnam War received student deferments and then an occupational deferment for teaching in the inner city.
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Student deferments were very common ways of beating the draft, though many students were really in school to be in school and not simply to avoid Vietnam.
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Trump also received multiple education deferments and he has also said he obtained a letter from a doctor for heel spurs, a condition that no longer afflicts him.
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And Cruz campaign aides have mentioned that Trump received deferments from service in the Vietnam War, a line of attack that could resurface in military-friendly South Carolina.
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The idea that a man with five draft deferments would dictate that people who volunteer to serve should not be allowed to is beyond outrageous — and it matters.
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McCain, who has been publicly feuding with Trump, appeared to take a swipe at the president over his deferments in a C-SPAN interview that aired on Sunday.
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Moore did fight in Vietnam — although in talking about Trump, Bannon failed to mention that the president never served and got five deferments, including one for bone spurs.
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Trump did not serve in the military and received several deferments during the Vietnam War, although Blumenthal has not been the only person whose military service he has scrutinized.
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USOILG=ECI Aside from the March meeting, traders said sentiment in oil was helped by project deferments in the U.S. shale industry and job cuts that will slow production.
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At that time, a year before the draft lottery was instituted, local boards had to meet quotas and called men for service, leaving those without deferments or exemptions vulnerable.
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It was no coincidence that those men who already fit the middle-class mold of domestic masculinity — those men who were college students or teachers or scientists — received deferments.
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But none of them, I daresay, invoked five draft deferments during a war (Vietnam), when each and every time another young man was drafted to serve in his place.
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Taking into account the additional people who would apply for deferments or couldn&apost serve for other medical reasons, the poll of military-eligible people could be quite small.
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The New York Times reported Monday that Trump received multiple student deferments and a medical deferment for a bone spur during the Vietnam War, successfully avoiding getting drafted into service.
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Trump, who preferred draft deferments to military service when he was young and our country was at war, should thank McCain, who served with valor and honor when duty called.
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After receiving four deferments due to education, Trump was diagnosed with bone spurs in his heels at the age of 19813 in 1968, seven years before the Vietnam War ended.
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Trump is a son of privilege who received five deferments to avoid Vietnam and has spent his entire adult life finding a way to get in front of the camera.
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He showed little interest in politics as a young man, obtaining deferments to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War but declining to participate in the protest movements of that era.
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As my own research has shown, when Congress authorized what would become the World War II draft in 1940, 65% of the 17 million men who registered received dependency deferments.
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Early in his presidential bid, Trump -- who received five deferments to avoid military service in Vietnam -- infamously maintained that McCain was not a war hero because he had been captured.
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In short order he displaced his older brother as heir apparent, received a string of questionable medical deferments from military service, and embarked on a career of myth-making and exaggeration.
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The New York Times reported last Trump sought and received five military draft deferments during the Vietnam War, including one medical deferment after was diagnosed with bone spurs in his foot.
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It's worth noting that Trump never served in the Vietnam War after receiving draft deferments from 1964 to 1968 while a college student, later getting an additional deferment for medical reasons.
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But the IMF believes that the Europeans' projections for the Greek economy are too rosy, and that Greece's debt will be unsustainable unless it gets further deferments on paying it back.
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Despite receiving five deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam, Trump said he felt as if he truly was in the military because he attended an upstate New York military prep school.
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While he did serve in the Marine Corps Reserves during the period, Blumenthal received multiple education and occupational deferments — which allowed him to avoid being drafted — and he was never deployed.
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Trump — who never served in the military and in fact received five deferments during the Vietnam War — will be seated near the Capitol, surrounded by veterans and Medal of Honor recipients.
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In the past, he had noted student deferments and a high number in the draft lottery, which was based on the birthdays of eligible men, to explain why he never served.
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In 1968, after receiving four deferments due to education, Donald Trump was diagnosed with bone spurs in his heels at the age of 22, seven years before the Vietnam War ended.
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By focusing on his military service and his relative youth, Mr. Moulton will seek to draw a contrast to President Trump, who is 72 and received several draft deferments during Vietnam.
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He believed that the promise of deferments could be used as a tool to coerce — or bribe — men to go to college and enter occupations defined as in the national interest.
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Although he was of draft age during the Vietnam War, Trump received five deferments to keep him out of the conflict -- four for being a student and one for medical reasons.
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Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg touted his military experience, compared to President Trumps draft deferments, to make the case he is prepared to take on the president on the issue.
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McCain has previously blasted Bannon for attacking Mitt Romney for not serving in the military while previously working for Trump, who received five deferments from military service during the Vietnam War.
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The department maintains that the loans are designed to encourage repayments without placing undue hardship on refugees, as interest-free deferments and reduced monthly payments are easily granted to struggling debtors.
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"There are many opportunities afforded financially struggling borrowers to avoid defaulting on their loans, including hardship deferments and income-based repayment options that may result in zero dollar payment amounts," he says.
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Christie did address a wide range of issues in the bills he did sign into law, including one designed to assist military veterans with financial planning, property tax deferments and other needs.
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Trump attended a military academy in New York as a teenager, though he has never served in the armed forces, receiving multiple medical deferments for bone spurs during the Vietnam War draft.
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He used the same argument he used in his tweet this morning: Keep in mind: Trump never served in Vietnam either, receiving 5 deferments — for college and bone spurs in his feet.
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In 2010, the New York Times revealed Blumenthal had been saying he served in Vietnam when he in fact he won five deferments before landing in a Marine regiment that never deployed.
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When officials again declared him available for service in July 1968, he had exhausted four education deferments and finished school, so it was the medical exemption that kept him from being eligible.
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"We have seen deferments of travel advertising in March and April, but at this stage it's really difficult to assess the further implications of the coronavirus," Chief Executive Carolyn McCall told reporters.
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Those deferments have once again come under the media glare after Trump escalated a confrontation with the family of Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier who died while serving in the Iraq War.
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Trump told Gray Television in an interview after the rally that he "regretted not serving in many ways" when asked about his five deferments to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War.
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Bannon failed to note that Trump avoided military service thanks to five draft deferments between 1964 and 1972 — four for education and one for a medical exemption claiming bone spurs in his heels.
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Deferments were not uncommon as the Vietnam War raged in 1960s, but Trump's lack of military service as a 22-year-old, 6 feet 2 inch athlete has raised questions about its legitimacy.
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Among the administration's targets this week: providing relief in the form of tax deferments, loans or even direct payments to airlines, the hospitality industry and small-to-medium businesses crippled by plunging demand.
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Deferments allow those with skills needed on the home front to exempt themselves from their military obligations because, especially during the upheaval of war, they ensure a viable domestic economy and stable society.
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In May 20163, The New York Times reported that Mr. Blumenthal had falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam; instead, he obtained at least five military deferments and then joined the Marine Reserve.
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The decision to take on veterans could put Trump on shaky ground: The President never served in the military and received student and health deferments that kept him out of serving in the war.
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"By the time we got out it was, I guess -- for the most part I wouldn't have had to go, but I got college deferments, I had one medical deferment for feet," Trump said.
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In the past, he had noted student deferments and a high number in the draft lottery, which was based on the birthdays of eligible men, to explain why he never served in the military.
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"I always wanted to get the Purple Heart," said Trump, who received draft deferments during the Vietnam War for, among other things, bone spurs that had miraculously little impact on his youthful athletic career.
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Mr. Blunt's draft deferments have also come up during the campaign, and he recently brought in another Republican senator, Joni Ernst, who has served in the military, to support him at a veterans' event.
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Washington (CNN)An Illinois Democrat who was seriously wounded in Iraq derisively referred to President Donald Trump's draft deferments after Trump called Democrats "treasonous" for not clapping during his State of the Union speech.
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Up until graduation day, Trump had been apparently healthy — playing football, tennis, and squash in college — but things apparently took a turn for the worse once he was no longer eligible for education deferments.
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The Vietnam War was controversial, of course, and while some people avoided service via illegal means, such as burning their draft cards, deferments for school and medical conditions were popular legal methods to dodge deployment.
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For example, during hurricanes Irma and Maria, and more recently during the government shutdown, some lenders voluntarily initiated payment deferments for affected borrowers because they were confident their borrowers would make repayment a high priority.
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Mr. Trump came off as more relaxed but also far lighter on policy explanations, and he faced no questions about his past insults of veterans and their families or his own Vietnam-era draft deferments.
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Donald J. Trump's criticism of the parents of a slain Army captain who was Muslim has drawn new scrutiny to his five deferments from the Vietnam draft, including one for bone spurs in his feet.
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It was unclear what measures would be announced after Wednesday's meeting but business groups are seeking tax cuts, loan payment deferments and steps to boost consumption, according to a report on the Haberturk news website.
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Under Mr. Laird's leadership, the military eventually eliminated the draft, first by scrapping a system of deferments, which tended to benefit college students and otherwise privileged young men, and replacing it with a lottery system.
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MORE (R-Ariz.) is knocking the media, saying they are inaccurately portraying his recent comments about high-income Americans getting draft deferments from the Vietnam War over bone spurs as a slight against President Trump.
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Yet when it came time to go fight in Vietnam, like my father and millions of others did, Trump — a pampered, cowardly son of a multimillionaire — got four deferments, then arranged to be medically disqualified.
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In June 1967, while the film was still in production, President Lyndon Johnson signed a revamped Military Selective Service Act, signaling that within the year deferments for most graduate students would come to an end.
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Blumenthal obtained multiple military deferments to avoid getting drafted into the Vietnam War and ultimately landed in the Marine Corps Reserve and never deployed to Vietnam, though he claimed multiple times he had served in Vietnam.
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The president has never served in the military and obtained a series of deferments to avoid going to Vietnam, including one attained with a physician's letter stating that he suffered from bone spurs in his feet.
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John McCain, the most well-known Vietnam War veteran in American politics, appeared to take a jab at Trump for receiving the deferments, intimating that the President dodged the draft that swept up less affluent Americans.
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Trump, who attended the private New York Military Academy as a young man, received five military draft deferments during the Vietnam War, including one medical deferment after he was diagnosed with bone spurs in his foot.
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Ms. McFadden was ultimately named deputy political director for the campaign and found herself navigating some of its most fraught controversies, including accusations of an extramarital affair and Mr. Clinton's draft deferments during the Vietnam War.
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What I crave is security," he added, his voice rising, in a possible reference to the fact that Trump did not have to serve in the Vietnam War because of academic deferments and bone spurs. "Mr.
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"We're not going to be able to help Donald realize his conveniently retroactive military fantasies, and based on precedent he could likely get a series of deferments to avoid going even if we tried," said Kerr.
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Trump received five deferments from military service in the Vietnam War in the 1960s — four because he was enrolled in college at the time, and a fifth after he graduated because of a diagnosis of bone spurs.
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Earlier reporting revealed the president had dodged the draft due to four student deferments and a medical deferment after he was diagnosed with heel spurs, calcium deposits that cause bony protrusions on the bottom of the heel.
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Like his grandfather, Trump has also been criticized as a "draft dodger," after The New York Times reported that he had received five military draft deferments during the Vietnam War, including one for bone spurs in his foot.
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Trump got both student and medical deferments, on an issue that for most of this campaign has not been talked about very much, because there's been tons of other stuff to talk about when it comes to Trump.
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Cohen also took a shot at Trump for his medical deferments during the Vietnam War, saying he asked Trump for medical records to about his bone spur to explain it to reporters, but he was not provided any.
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Read on for a sampling of his less-than-courageous moments: As the Washington Post pointed out, Trump has faced significant criticism for receiving five deferments that kept him out of the Vietnam War — including one for bone spurs.
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Although young Trump escaped serving through a series of academic and medical deferments, the President was so enamored of the military style that 50 years later, he would speak lovingly to me of Brasso polish and spit-shined shoes.
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"To have a president who never served but himself got, what, four, five deferments to avoid service in Vietnam be a guide to question someone else's patriotism because of their gender identity is sickening," she said at the time.
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I would like to remind Trump that while he dodged the Vietnam draft for medical and educational deferments, there are nearly 6,000 Muslims serving in the U.S. Armed Forces and risking their lives to keep us free and safe.
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So I'd like to suggest "bone-spur bozo" for the president, referring, of course, to the five military draft deferments Trump received during the Vietnam War, one of which was a medical deferment for bone spurs in his feet.
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Against the backdrop of the D-Day commemorations honoring the bravery of troops, Mr. Morgan, host of "Good Morning Britain," asked him about his military deferments during the Vietnam War for a claim of bone spurs in his heel.
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The women who do raise their voices are often ground up for years in Italy's infamously Byzantine legal system and countless deferments, while their partners often threaten to sue them for defamation, stalk them or continue to abuse them.
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The comment, which was criticized as disrespectful and "insensitive" by some on Twitter, comes one day after The New York Times reported that Trump received five draft deferments during the Vietnam War, four for education and one for heel spurs.
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Imagine this: Trump, who received five draft deferments during the Vietnam era, then accepted a Purple Heart from a real veteran and attacked McCain, a war hero who is a leader on behalf of veterans, for not doing enough for vets.
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In 2010, The New York Times reported that Mr. Blumenthal obtained at least five military deferments to avoid going to war, and later joined a unit in the Marine Reserve in Washington, virtually guaranteeing he would not be sent to Vietnam.
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How is it that the Selective Service, which had used deferments during both World Wars and the Korean War, allowed the situation to become so bad that by 1967 fewer than half of Americans polled believed that the draft operated fairly?
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Deferments were not uncommon during the Vietnam War, but Trump's absence — despite him being of military age throughout the war and his frequent boasts about his athleticism as a young man — raised questions among skeptics, including former Defense Secretary James Mattis.
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The company described him as an awkward former "Democratic legislative aide," ill suited to lead "what many describe as a strident advocacy group," who "knows little about guns or how to actually use them" and obtained multiple Vietnam-era deferments.
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In fact, one of Trump's five deferments was in 1965, the same year as the Selma marches and "Bloody Sunday," during which Lewis was struck so violently by a state trooper wielding a billy club that Lewis's skull was fractured.
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Isabel and other program participants need more than a restoration of the temporary deferments the program provided — they have to continue their medical treatments for the rest of their lives, and it may never become available in their own countries.
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Recuperating alongside soldiers hideously wounded in combat, he reassessed the antiwar movement, growing in stridency as the government curtailed student deferments, which had relegated much of the fighting to poor boys, and he began drafting the novel finally published this fall.
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" In 2010, Blumenthal, who received five military deferments before enlisting in the Marine Reserves, said he may have "misspoken" about his service but would not allow "anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country.
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The president's four deferments from the draft have been a source of controversy since emerging in the 2016 presidential campaign, and his record stood in stark contrast to that of the World War II soldiers who leaders honored at the D-Day commemoration.
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The Pentagon stood firm Monday on its policy of prohibiting service academy athletes from getting deferments from their active-duty service requirements in order to play pro sports — even after President Donald Trump said earlier in the day that he was considering reversing it.
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"They fought alongside us in wars, including losing over 500 brave Australians in the Vietnam War, which some of us remember," McCain told CNN's Phil Mattingly, offering an implicit dig at Trump, who won five deferments and never served in a branch of the military.
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So far jitters over Egypt's nascent programme of cargo deferments — a potentially bearish signal for global markets — have taken a back seat to more immediate developments, such as Kogas purchases, but Egypt could come to dominate thinking once the scale of its programme becomes clear.
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Similarly, the plan would create a fund to invest in minority-founded businesses, offer loan deferments and forgiveness programs to black college students who start businesses after graduating, and increase the amount of federal contracting funding given to small business owners from marginalized communities.
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"Charlotte Clymer, a military veteran and communications officer at Human Rights Campaign, tweeted that she was "utterly disgusted and horrified that someone who received five draft deferments and has repeatedly insulted our military is now going after the children of service members like this.
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The next month, Mr. Trump received the first of four education deferments as he worked his way through his undergraduate studies, first at Fordham, in the Bronx, and then as a transfer student in the real estate program at the Wharton School, in Philadelphia.
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The Norwegian parliament has approved loans, tax deferments and extra spending of up to 280 billion Norwegian crowns ($25.25 billion) to alleviate the impact of the crisis, while the central bank slashed its benchmark interest rate twice, from 1.5% to a record low 0.25%.
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" And as Colbert noted, Trump's own history with the U.S. military isn't so noble: "This is what really stings: They are being rejected by a rich guy who during Vietnam side-stepped the draft with four deferments and a medical disqualification for bone spurs in his foot.
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These solutions could include a combination of providing re-entry support and education to formerly incarcerated borrowers, deferments similar to those provided in student loans or during natural disasters, shorter times for defaults to be erased from credit files or even freezing-up their credit while incarcerated.
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Although the Department of Defense did not keep records on the socio-economic status or racial identification of service personnel beyond whether they were African-American or not, there's no doubt that men with fewer resources were less likely to obtain deferments than those with more.
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Lewis Hershey, the Selective Service fashioned a system of deferments and exemptions that local draft boards awarded to registrants for pursuing certain activities outside the military, such as going to college or medical, dental or divinity school; serving in the reserves; or working for a defense contractor.
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Trump attacks Lewis as, "All talk, talk, talk — no action"; Lewis, who repeatedly thrust his body unto the breach for justice, who was arrested, beaten and terrorized, including during the time that young Trump was at his well-heeled schools, receiving draft deferments from the Vietnam War.
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At age 13, an unruly Mr. Trump was packed off by his frustrated parents to New York Military Academy, but he never served in the armed forces, receiving five deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War, four for education and one for bone spurs in his heels.
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He invoked his own military service to explain a host of his views on Thursday, including his position on President Donald Trump pardoning service members convicted of war crimes and Trump not serving in the Vietnam War because he received multiple education deferments and one medical deferment for bone spurs.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Robert Mueller was leading a U.S. Marine Corps platoon in combat in Vietnam, Donald Trump was finishing college and about to go to work for his father, a New York City landlord, having received military draft deferments including for a diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels.
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Private loans, for instance, will not guarantee some of the same protections and options as federal Plus loans, she said, like the ability to discharge the debt because of a school's closing, loan deferments for economic hardships, and potential access to a repayment option that can tie payments to the borrower's income.
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And in any case, the United States today is friendly with Germany, Japan and Italy, the main Axis powers during World War II. Others questioned whether any member of the Trump family had fought for the United States during World War II and noted that during the Vietnam War, the president received five draft deferments.
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Though he suggested he fought in Vietnam, Blumenthal actually took several deferments and served in the Marine Corps Reserve without leaving the US. (He later admitted he had "misspoken" about his record.) Last week, Blumenthal urged for US senators to pass legislation to "protect the integrity and independence" of the special counsel investigating the Trump-Russia scandal. .
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Step 1: President Donald Trump (a man who got five deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam, and has a history of mocking POWs who did serve and also Gold Star families) latches on to the complaint of some, that players' actions disrespect the military, and decides that he too believes that NFL players peacefully, quietly kneeling during the anthem are somehow defiling America.
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The government has proposed loans, tax deferments and extra spending of up to 360 billion Norwegian crowns to alleviate the impact of the crisis, while the central bank slashed its benchmark interest rate twice.. "This money from the state is completely necessary," said Ole Erik Almlid, chief executive of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO), the country's main business lobby group.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE received five deferments from the military draft during the Vietnam War, according to a new report, including one medical exemption for a problem with his heels.
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" And here is some of his response to a "request for forbearance," specifically to a question asking about any other outstanding debts: "The inalienable privilege of my race to the victims of the Middle Passage, a debt whose repayment has proved tricky to schedule, given the endless deferments, if not forbearances, and the way that the blood of slavery tends to run clear in the tears of liberals.
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She noted that Russian trolls had created social-media posts clearly aimed at winning support for Trump from churchgoers and military families—key Republican voters who seemed likely to lack enthusiasm for a thrice-married nominee who had boasted of groping women, obtained multiple military deferments, mocked Gold Star parents and a former prisoner of war, and described the threat of venereal disease as his personal equivalent of the Vietcong.
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President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to release ISIS fighters in Europe as a form of punishment for countries like Germany and France; said he's strongly considering trying to change the Constitution by executive order (it doesn't work that way); indicated he hasn't ruled out trying to illegally serve more than two terms; rewrote history during comments about Russia's expulsion from the G25 that framed the situation in the most pro-Kremlin manner possible; and, despite five draft deferments, joked about giving himself the Medal of Honor.
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To be clear, Donald Trump thinks that John McCain, who spent 23 years in the Navy and more than 5 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and has been a leading advocate on veterans' issues in the Senate for years, does not have veterans' interests at heart the way Donald Trump — who avoided serving in Vietnam due to college deferments and "bad feet," and who failed to honor a promise to donate to veterans' groups until the media forced his hand — does.
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper roasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE for their volatile exchange this week, reminding people that the two "tough guys" both received several deferments from the military draft.
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Week 29, in one sentence: Donald Trump headed to New Jersey for a "working vacation" where he repeatedly threatened North Korea and crashed a wedding; failed to address the bombing of a Minnesota mosque; made some progress in his eternal battle against leakers when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to review policies protecting journalists; called out a Democrat senator over his lie about going to Vietnam, leaving out his own four deferments, including one because his feet hurt; went after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for neither repealing nor replacing Obamacare; played golf, at least according to social media; at least started the paperwork to declare the opioid epidemic a "national emergency"; thanked Putin for expelling 755 U.S. diplomats from Russia; and spooked the world and financial markets when he said military solutions were "locked and loaded" against North Korea.
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