'He's a draft dodger!' Veterans mince no words in Trump takedown for Biden D-Day ad
On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Biden campaign released a new video of three military veterans who minced no words in taking down former President Donald Trump, with one calling him a "draft dodger" who's "not fit to be commander in chief."
The video, published Wednesday on the Biden campaign's YouTube account, features Marine Corps veteran Curtis Register, Army veteran Ed McCabe and Navy pilot Matthew McLaughlin.
In the ad, McCabe rips the former president as someone who "criticizes veterans," and who "doesn't see it important for him to go to the funerals."
"He's a draft dodger, simple as that," McCabe later added.
Trump's claim that an “ultimately” high draft lottery number kept him out of the Vietnam War, a 2018 New York Times report found that Selective Service records pointed to a different reason: He was medically exempted for over a year, "well before" the then-22-year-old — who played football, stood 6-foot-2 and with an unblemished medical history — received his draft number. It was only after he graduated from college in 1968 that he was diagnosed with bone spurs in his heels, making him eligible for medical deferment and exempting him from service.
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The veterans noted that Trump has a history of criticizing veterans — indeed, a video montage of Trump disrespecting service members went viral on Memorial Day — and McLaughlin highlighted key differences between Biden and Trump, saying that while he sees Biden as someone who "accepts accountability and responsibility," he sees Trump as "only in this for himself."
Register said it was "pretty impactful" to him to see a president who "supports troops not just on the battlefield, but when we return home." He called the 2024 election the difference between authoritarianism and democracy.
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