IF YOU OR YOUR PAPA HAD THE MONEY, YOU COULD ALWAYS DODGE THE DRAFT

Did a podiatrist who rented his office from Trump's father help the president avoid the Vietnam draft? Daughters of doctor who died 10-years-ago claim he provided infamous bone spurs diagnosis as a 'favor'

Daily Mail
December 26, 2018

The daughters of a now-dead podiatrist have claimed that he provided the diagnosis of bone spurs that exempted Donald Trump from the Vietnam War draft, suggesting it was in exchange for commercial rent concessions from Trump's father Fred Trump.

Dr. Elysa Braunstein, 56, and Sharon Kessel, 53, made the sensational claim to the New York Times, claiming their father Dr. Larry Braunstein diagnosed Donald Trump in 1968.

Dr. Larry Braunstein died in 2007, and the Times was unable find any documentary evidence to back up the daughters' claims, which surfaced when the newspaper contacted the family based on an anonymous tip.

'I know it was a favor,' Elysa Braunstein told the Times, adding that her father had implied that Trump did not have the foot ailment that disqualified him from military service. 'But did he examine him? I don't know,' she said.

Larry Braunstein rented his office in the Queens neighborhood of Jamaica from Trump's father. The doctor's daughters said that he was able to remain there for years without a rent increase.

EDITOR’S NOTE: I don’t doubt that story one bit, not because I dislike Trump, but because the ‘bone spurs’ which prevented him from serving in the military did not prevent him from teeing off on the golf course.