How Trump spent the war years

[HenryBHough]

Obama is surely in line for an Iranian Hero star with ribbons for his great work on behalf of their military.....

 

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Republicans leading candidate for President

How Trump spent the war years

IT WAS THE spring of 1968, and Donald Trump had it good. He was 21 years old and handsome, with a full head of hair. He'd avoided the Vietnam War draft on his way to earning an Ivy League degree. He was fond of fancy dinners, beautiful women, and outrageous clubs.

Most important, he had a job in his father's real estate company and a brain bursting with moneymaking ideas that would make him a billionaire.

"When I graduated from college, I had a net worth of perhaps $200,000," he said in his 1987 autobiography Trump: The Art of the Deal, written with Tony Schwartz. (That's about $1.4 million in 2015 dollars.) "I had my eye on Manhattan."

More than 8,000 miles away, John McCain sat in a tiny, squalid North Vietnamese prison cell. The Navy pilot's body was broken from a plane crash, starvation, botched operations, and months of torture.

The stark contrast in their fortunes was thrown into sharp relief this month when Trump belittled McCain during a campaign speech in Iowa. "He's not a war hero," Trump said of McCain. "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured."

Bill Clinton not only got out of Vietnam, he got out of the National Guard and participated in anti-Vietnam protests in London and Moscow. John Kerry graced his presence in Vietnam for 6 months, somehow had 4 injuries and earned a purple heart, was sitting on the Cambodia border as part of Nixon's campaign in 1968 per his own memoirs, gave his Winter Soldier speech which was played for American POWs to hear, and threw other [peoples' medals as his own onto the White House lawn in a form of protest. If you are going to defend McCain in 2015, where were you in 2008?