"No question" Trump falsified his invalid status to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.

Pete Buttigieg said that there was no doubt in his mind that President Donald Trump had simulated a disability in order to avoid serving during the Vietnam War. "There is no doubt for a reasonable observer that the President has found a way to falsify an invalid status, taking advantage of his privileged status not to serve", Buttigieg said in an interview with ABC News This week. The Democratic presidential hope of 2020 then described the commander-in-chief as "someone who thinks it's okay to let someone put himself in his place in a murderous war and who is ready to pretend to be disabled to do so ". "An attack on the honor of this country," said Buttigieg, a naval intelligence officer in Afghanistan.

The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, had previously accused Trump of simulating his disability in an interview with The Washington Post. "Do you believe that he simulated a disability?" journalist Robert Costa asked. "Do you believe that he has a disability?" Replied Buttigieg.
"Yeah, yeah, at least not that one," he said jokingly, "Trump was exempted from military service five times during the Vietnam War, including a medical adjournment to have bone spurs." Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, told Congress that when he asked Trump for medical records, "he did not give me anything."

In the interview broadcast on Sunday, Buttigieg also criticized Trump for considering granting pardon to soldiers who have been accused or convicted of war crimes. "The idea that being sent to war turns you into a murderer is exactly the kind of thing that those of us who have been serving have been trying to fend off for over a generation," Buttigieg said. "Frankly, his idea of ​​being sent to fight automatically makes you a war criminal, it's a slander against veterans that could only come from someone who's not never served. "

Buttigieg also described the current situation in Washington as "a continuous horror show".shot the whole thing in a reality showAnd the Democrats must "completely change channels and make sure to respond to all the distractions and absurdities of the White House." The mayor also acknowledged that the strategy had served Trump well. "It causes us in a way that makes it very difficult for us to do anything, but to kindly respond, nicknames, tweets, insults," he said. "And we must remember that the more we talk about him, the less we talk about voters."