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packman

(16,296 posts) Tue Jul 14, 2015, 11:57 AM Jul 2015

Trump, the fortunate son of a multimillionaire real estate baron

Trump, the fortunate son of a multimillionaire real estate baron, took repeated steps to avoid serving in Vietnam.

Well, the Donald will bomb this and bomb that and fight Iran and Mexico, a real war-hawk. But when his time to serve came up, the guy had enough family dollars to get repeated student deferments and when those ran out he was classified as physically unfit to serve. Hmmm- makes you wonder.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/deferments-helped-trump-dodge-vietnam

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Trump, the fortunate son of a multimillionaire real estate baron (Original Post) packman Jul 2015 OP

Imagine that... mikeysnot Jul 2015 #1

Not George W Bush! Nevernose Jul 2015 #2

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Welcome to DU. Trump's proven track record is multiple bankruptcies. How is that an asset? uppityperson Jul 2015 #5

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Maybe he can help the gvt declare bankruptcy, like he did 4 times? uppityperson Jul 2015 #8

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I'd rather not have a president that ran his businesses into the ground & needed bailing out multipl uppityperson Jul 2015 #12

He had a CASINO go bankrupt! That takes wizard-level incompetence to pull off arcane1 Jul 2015 #13

It shows he is tenacious? uppityperson Jul 2015 #14

Well, Trump is known to pay people $50 to pretend to like him... arcane1 Jul 2015 #15

So you're saying you want to see government run like a business? bullwinkle428 Jul 2015 #6

lol senseandsensibility Jul 2015 #9

Good news -- Trump's not worth a serious consideration no matter what. Gormy Cuss Jul 2015 #11

Born on 3rd base packman Jul 2015 #16

mikeysnot

(4,756 posts)

1. Imagine that...

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 12:11 PM

Jul 2015

Trump is a coward war hawk.... aren't they all?

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)

2. Not George W Bush!

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 12:15 PM

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There wasn't a single Viet Cong attack against Alabama while he was on watch!

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uppityperson

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5. Welcome to DU. Trump's proven track record is multiple bankruptcies. How is that an asset?

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 12:55 PM

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uppityperson

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8. Maybe he can help the gvt declare bankruptcy, like he did 4 times?

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 01:05 PM

Jul 2015

That's an odd way to try and fix things.

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uppityperson

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12. I'd rather not have a president that ran his businesses into the ground & needed bailing out multipl

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 01:12 PM

Jul 2015

multiple times.

arcane1

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13. He had a CASINO go bankrupt! That takes wizard-level incompetence to pull off

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 01:16 PM

Jul 2015

uppityperson

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14. It shows he is tenacious?

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 01:17 PM

Jul 2015

Seriously though, wtf?

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

15. Well, Trump is known to pay people $50 to pretend to like him...

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 01:19 PM

Jul 2015

I hope he got his money's worth

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)

6. So you're saying you want to see government run like a business?

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 01:01 PM

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senseandsensibility

(17,037 posts)

9. lol

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 01:06 PM

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Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)

11. Good news -- Trump's not worth a serious consideration no matter what.

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Tue Jul 14, 2015, 01:07 PM

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But back to the topic at hand. Fortunate sons have no moral authority when the topic is benefits to veterans or when to go to war. Wealth privilege insulates them and their children so it's an academic exercise for them. Meanwhile, back in the rest of America we don't have that luxury. My brother and cousins went to Vietnam thanks to the draft. None of them wanted to go, none of them had the middle and upper income privilege to choose college or the national guard or JAG or even dodging to Canada.

So yes, I'll attack any and all fortunate ones when it comes to defense and VA issues.

As to his success in business, Trump was born on third base and thinks he earned a home run. Nothing special about it.

packman

(16,296 posts)

16. Born on 3rd base

Reply to Gormy Cuss (Reply #11)

Tue Jul 14, 2015, 03:57 PM

Jul 2015

and his father was the umpire.

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