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27 Feb '18 14:412 editsUS President Donald Trump has boasted that he would have run into the deadly Florida high school shooting, even if he didn't have a weapon.
Key points:
Mr Trump says response of some officers was "frankly disgusting"
President tells governors NRA is "on our side"
Shooting survivor thanks doctors, first-responders
At a meeting with the country's governors, Mr Trump criticised officers who didn't stop the gunman who carried out the massacre earlier this month, saying they "weren't exactly Medal of Honour winners".
"The way they performed was frankly disgusting," Mr Trump told the group of governors at the White House.
As a draft dodger, Trump never knew the horrors of war, but in 1997, he laughed when telling radio host Howard Stern that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was like his "personal Vietnam." "It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era,” Trump said to Stern, discussing his sex life. "I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”
Today, Trump struggles to recall the most basic facts about the medical condition that was the basis for his final deferment. He doesn't remember the name of the doctor who provided him with the note of proof and has repeatedly failed to provide a copy of it to The New York Times. He's also forgotten which of his heels had the spurs, now just claiming it was both. (During the 2016 presidential election, the affliction wasn't noted by Dr. Harold Bornstein, a physician who performed a physical on Trump and found that he had "no significant medical problems." in his medical history)
Is this the same guy who refused to fight in the Vietnam war, and walked past a man laying on the street bleeding because he said: "It looked disgusting"?
Key points:
Mr Trump says response of some officers was "frankly disgusting"
President tells governors NRA is "on our side"
Shooting survivor thanks doctors, first-responders
At a meeting with the country's governors, Mr Trump criticised officers who didn't stop the gunman who carried out the massacre earlier this month, saying they "weren't exactly Medal of Honour winners".
"The way they performed was frankly disgusting," Mr Trump told the group of governors at the White House.
As a draft dodger, Trump never knew the horrors of war, but in 1997, he laughed when telling radio host Howard Stern that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was like his "personal Vietnam." "It is a dangerous world out there. It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam era,” Trump said to Stern, discussing his sex life. "I feel like a great and very brave soldier.”
Today, Trump struggles to recall the most basic facts about the medical condition that was the basis for his final deferment. He doesn't remember the name of the doctor who provided him with the note of proof and has repeatedly failed to provide a copy of it to The New York Times. He's also forgotten which of his heels had the spurs, now just claiming it was both. (During the 2016 presidential election, the affliction wasn't noted by Dr. Harold Bornstein, a physician who performed a physical on Trump and found that he had "no significant medical problems." in his medical history)
Is this the same guy who refused to fight in the Vietnam war, and walked past a man laying on the street bleeding because he said: "It looked disgusting"?
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