I had thought of making this yet another modest proposal, but, for reasons I’ll get to, I’ve rejected that approach.
Anyone with half a brain has been morally certain that Trump’s bone spur draft exemption was a fraud, but today we have substantial evidenceto back that up.
I was going to propose that the Democrats start a concerted campaign to demand that Trump release his x-rays to prove that he does indeed have a bone spur. Sort of echoing Trump’s treatment of Obama (birth certificate) and Warren (DNA testing).
Ah, but here’s the rub. If he doesn’t release an x-ray, the press will simply dismiss the Democrats demands out of hand as deeply silly. They won’t, as they did with Warren, write up the issue as one that casts serious doubts on Trump’s credibility. (Wait, is that phrase, “Trump’s credibility” an oxymoron?).
On the off chance that Trump has developed a real bone spur since his draft age years, and can therefore produce an x-ray, the press, which after all must be fair to both sides, will pronounce it a Trump victory, rather than, say, push out a meme that he handled it wrong, as they did with Elizabeth Warren. No win situations only exist for Democrats.
So, no modest proposal on this one. We must let this story fly into the memory hole. I give it three days until it disappears completely.
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