McCain Slams Rich “Bone Spur” Draft Dodgers [VIDEO]

Talking Points Memo reports:

In an interview about the Vietnam War taped last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared to criticize President Donald Trump for receiving a draft deferment for bone spurs during the Vietnam War. The Arizona senator did not mention the President by name but specifically called out “high-income Americans” who got doctors’ notes for a “bone spur.”

“One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur,” McCain told C-SPAN in an interview that aired Sunday.

“That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.” Trump deferred the draft five times, four while he was in school and the fifth for bone spurs.

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