New Reporting Sheds Light On Donald Trump, Robert Mueller During Vietnam Era | Morning Joe | MSNBC

New NYT reporting sheds light on how the president is said to have avoided the Vietnam War draft, and new Wired reporting discusses Robert Mueller's military service. Also: What's next in the Mueller probe?

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New Reporting Sheds Light On Donald Trump, Robert Mueller During Vietnam Era | Morning Joe | MSNBC

[uwcb]

Was his plane ride any different than what other presidents had going into combat zones? Obama and Bush never complained..

[michaelmarceau]

Did he just say the plane ride was horrific...in front of military professionals? Ugh!

[jayzenitram]

"Flying in lights out in my 747 was my own personal Afghanistan."

[korbit]

tRump: "It was 50 years ago....how do you expect me to remember which foot I lied about"?!?

[DavidJ]

So after 2 years, someone finally reminds Trump that we have troops in Iraq, and he then turns a visit to those troops, into an event where he brags about how great he is.😔
Trump:" Hey guys, I would have been here sooner, but Obama and General Mattis never told me that you guys were here. Can you believe it?"

[johnnyc]

Mueller had to rehab to *become* deployable. Trump's poppa paid his way out of deploying. Hmm?... We need to fix our mistake, America. Trump can live with his own failures. We shouldn't have to.

[coopart]

I am a Barber / hairstylist . I have MANY clients who want to talk politics. If my shop was a gauge on the country's support of trump, i will tell you this...in my chair his BIG supporters are dropping away from him FAST. And they know i have never supported him, and are willing to talk about all the things they are starting to distrust him with. It is all starting to matter to them now. Good folks, who wanted to believe in the con man.

[duffduffington]

Babies are usually afraid of the dark.

[faerefolke]

Thank you for your service, Mr. Robert Mueller.

[fabigrossi]

This crazy bully is such a whiny little coward inside.

[bogboffin]

Good thing Trump didn't go to Vietnam.. he would have risked the lives of those around him.

[presterjohn]

He was scared shitless and that is why he waited this long to visit the troops. What makes me laugh is that everyone in the room basically made the same journey.

[DragonAlchemist]

I thought he knew more than the military about war?

[jillshort]

It's Trump's rich kid privilege that bothers me, not the fact that he avoided Vietnam; I knew of someone who ate his way into obesity to avoid the service, and someone who spent a couple years in jail in protest. As a female, I've always wondered what I would have done had I been male. To this day, I don't know but am glad I didn't die in such a senseless conflict. We had a house in our town that had a flag with two blue stars, then a blue and a gold, then two golds, and I believe they lost a third son in Vietnam, as well. Can't imagine those parents' pain.

[spelunkerd]

I'm still waiting for the day when Trump makes one decision that is not directly in the interest of his own family.

[Arigna]

POOR ME, POOR ME, Mommy I need to be love by all, why they don't love me mommy?

[c.l.freeman]

Boy, that college education sure took hold, didn’t it? If I was Wharton Business College, I would be completely embarrassed to have him claim he was educated there

[michaelclagett]

Awwwe...wittle pwezident bone spurs had to turn the lights off...#alertthedaycarestaff

[heyfunny]

Please, Hero Mueller, "accidentally" publish your findings to the public. We the People deserve the truth.

[johannesbusch]

He had concerns? Why did he bring the First Lady to a war zone then?