{"id":12319,"date":"2016-01-11T00:46:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2016-01-11T00:47:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:47:12","slug":"what-discrepancies-in-trumps-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12319","title":{"rendered":"What? Discrepancies in Trump&#8217;s background?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CCm2tj.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12322\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CCm2tj-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"CCm2tj\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CCm2tj-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/CCm2tj.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Karma can be a bitch.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s account of his years at a military academy is now being challenged.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican presidential candidate has portrayed his years at the academy as sufficient preparation for making him commander in chief. Now come reports that Trump&#8217;s years in the New York military school weren&#8217;t nearly as rosy as he has portrayed them.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had\u00a0received medical and student deferments that kept him from serving in the military during the Vietnam War. Trump, though, has portrayed his enrollment at New York Military Academy as being the next best thing to serving in the military.<\/p>\n<p>Some former classmates now say that Trump wasn&#8217;t nearly as attentive to the students under his command as he should have been . . .\u00a0 and as he has portrayed himself as being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/50-years-later-disagreements-over-young-trump%e2%80%99s-military-academy-record\/ar-CCkDzA?li=BBnbcA1\">Turnabout is fair play, yes?<\/a>\u00a0Trump and others have asked questions about Barack H. Obama&#8217;s past. His academic records at Columbia University; his birth records.<\/p>\n<p>Now the proverbial shoe is on the proverbial other foot.<\/p>\n<p>How will Trump answer these questions?<\/p>\n<p>Others and I are waiting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karma can be a bitch. Donald J. Trump&#8217;s account of his years at a military academy is now being challenged. The Republican presidential candidate has portrayed his years at the academy as sufficient preparation for making him commander in chief. Now come reports that Trump&#8217;s years in the New York military school weren&#8217;t nearly as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What? 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