Cohen To Say Trump Dodged Draft, Faked Bone Spurs

The Hill reports:

President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen will testify Wednesday that Trump dodged military service in Vietnam with false claims about a medical condition.

In his opening statement before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cohen will say that Trump told him there “was no surgery” for bone spurs and instructed him not to answer reporters’ specific questions about his draft deferment.

“Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery,” Cohen will say in his testimony, according to a copy of his prepared remarks obtained by The Hill.

I have now spent more time in Vietnam than Da Nang Dick Blumenthal, the third rate Senator from Connecticut (how is Connecticut doing?). His war stories of his heroism in Vietnam were a total fraud – he was never even there. We talked about it today with Vietnamese leaders!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 27, 2019

Again, Trump is being dishonest about Blumenthal’s own dishonesty. Blumenthal falsely claimed he served in Vietnam though he served in the Marine Reserve stateside. He never told “war stories of his heroism in Vietnam,” just said he was there. pic.twitter.com/T4GscOhXU9

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 27, 2019