That is an assault on the honor of this country.”When he was draft-eligible for the Vietnam War, Trump received deferments because a doctor diagnosed him with bone spurs in his feet. The daughters of a podiatrist who diagnosed Trump with the foot condition in 1968 said in December that it was done as “a favor” to Trump’s father, Fred Trump. “What he got was access to Fred Trump,” Elysa Braunstein told The New York Times. Trump, meanwhile, has taken a more dismissive attitude toward the millennial presidential candidate. The president has mocked the pronunciation of Buttigieg’s last name during several campaign rallies, and he has likened him to the big-eared Mad magazine mascot Alfred E. Newman.

Source: Huffington Post May 26, 2019 16:56 UTC