NYT: Girls from a podiatrist say that he diagnosed that he had diagnosed an asset with a bone spine during the war as a "favor"

While President Trump is criticized for being the first president not to visit US troops at Christmas since 2002 – he chose to hold a videoconference this year – a new statement could further damage his reputation with the US. # 39; army.

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that the two daughters of a late Queens podiatrist publicly proclaimed that their father had diagnosed the future president with bone-in bones as a favor to his owner, Patriarch Trump, Fred C. Trump. The diagnosis allowed Donald Trump to obtain a medical exemption allowing him to avoid drawing water during the Vietnam War. Elysa Braunstein and Sharon Kessel – Dr. Larry Braunstein's daughters, who died in 2007 – say their father was one of Fred Trump's tenants at the time. He established his podiatrist practice at Edgerton Apartments, owned by Trump in Jamaica, Queens. Although they do not know if their father actually examined Donald Trump, then aged 22, the sisters say that he often talked about signing the diagnosis that kept Trump out of the way. the war. The doctor also gave them the impression that Trump did not actually have bone spurs, but he said otherwise to help him stay out of the repechage, they say.

"I know it was a favor," Braunstein told The New York Times, pointing to his father's cordial relationship with the father of Trump's real estate developer.

"He had access to Fred Trump," she added. "If there was something wrong with the building, my father would call and Trump would take care of it immediately. That's the little favor he's had.

The sisters say that they remember Dr. Manny Weinstein, friend and podiatrist friend of their father, who had also been involved in the diagnosis of bone spine. Weinstein died in 1995.

There is no medical record to support the sisters' claims, but Trump was not sufficiently enlightened as to how he made the diagnosis. Although he suggested that he had records of his medical history, they were not made public and he has already admitted that he does not remember his doctor's name. `The White House did not answer questions about Braunstein's alleged involvement.

Critics scoffed at the diagnosis of Trump's bony spur, who accused him of pulling the strings to avoid being sent to war. Now the Times report has unleashed a new wave of ridicule and speculation.