CNN anchor Jake Tapper roasted President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden for their volatile exchange this week, reminding people that the two “tough guys” both received several deferments from the military draft.
“Reminder that between the two of these tough guys are nine Vietnam deferments and claims they couldn’t serve because of asthma and bone spurs,” Tapper tweeted on Thursday.
Tapper followed up by praising his father-in-law, Sgt. Tom Brown, who “isn’t running around talking about how tough he is.”
You know who’s a tough guy from that generation? My father in law, Sgt Tom Brown, enlisted in the US Air Force 1966, honorably discharged 1969. In country from 1968-1969, in the 12th Security Police Squadron Pacific Air Command. Isn’t running around talking about how tough he is.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 22, 2018
There were reportedly ten draft deferments between Biden and Trump during the Vietnam War.
Biden received five student draft deferments and was disqualified from service because of teenage asthma, The Associated Press reported.
Trump received five deferments during the war because of his education and from bone spurs in his heels, according to The New York Times.
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