As Donald Trump continues to attack, criticize and whine about the late war hero and former Arizona senator John McCain, a new query has emerged. During an interview on Thursday with Anderson Cooper, former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, a colleague of McCain’s who also served in the Vietnam War, said he wants something from Trump. Kerrey wants evidence of the bone spurs that Trump claimed he had in order to dodge the draft. Turns out you don’t outgrow bone spurs, so it’s relatively easy to confirm their existence.
You can see where this is going.
Kerrey, a former governor of Nebraska, is demanding that Donald Trump get some new X-rays, because he believes that while John McCain was in Vietnam risking his life, Trump was falsifying medical records.
Yet dodging the draft is not the main point, according to Kerrey.
I know lots of people who avoided the draft, but this is not what he’s saying. He’s saying, ‘I physically couldn’t go.’
Trump’s bone spur excuse is essentially him that saying he would have served, if he could have served. Like the majority of the entire world familiar with Trump, Kerrey is not buying it. He’s disgusted and he’s unafraid to say so.
Everything he’s saying is bad enough, but when he says, he’s not my kind of guy because [McCain] went to Vietnam, was flying combat missions, got shot down, was held prisoner—that’s not your kind of guy? Who is your ‘kind of guy? Your friends who falsified their records, so they didn’t have to go? I think that’s the answer. I think he sees all of us that went to Vietnam as fools. We were the suckers. We were the stupid ones that didn’t have the resources to get out of the draft. He had the resources and he got out of it.
So show us your bone spurs. Let’s see those X-rays.
Kerrey knows that by addressing his request, Trump would have to admit he did everything he possibly could do to get out of the same war in which John McCain bravely fought, endured unspeakable torture, and risked his life.
Thank you for asking, Bob Kerrey.
John Robert Kerrey was born in Nebraska, August 27, 1943. He served in the U.S. Navy SEAL special forces unit from 1966-1969. Kerrey was wounded in Vietnam and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life.” A Democrat, he served as Governor of Nebraska from 1983-1987 and was elected to the United States Senate in 1988. He was reelected in 1994, and served from January 3, 1989, to January 3, 2001.