Trump biographer examined his feet for bone spurs that helped him avoid Vietnam but 'didn't see anything'

Kyle Moss

On Wednesday’s CNN Tonight With Don Lemon, the author of The Truth About Trump, Michael D’Antonio, broke down the recent accusations that President Trump was diagnosed with bone spurs in 1968 as a favor to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War.

“I’m not even sure, actually, that the president knows the truth about this. This is the odd thing: He may have been examined. He took off his shoes and tried to show me these bone spurs. I didn’t see anything,” D’Antonio said. “He really did think that he was showing me something and that I saw it.”

The daughters of Dr. Larry Braunstein, who died in 2007, allege that Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was the podiatrist’s landlord and that Braunstein made the diagnosis in return for easier access to Fred.

“The irony here is that Fred Trump was trying to do something for his son,” D’Antonio said. “Now we have a situation where there are all these parents who are trekking across Latin America, trying to get their kids out of harm’s way, and the irony is now that they’re in custody in United States facilities.”

D’Antonio, who has also written about former President Barack Obama, said that many of Donald Trump’s biographical details are “hazy” in this way, and he doesn’t think there was ever a medical issue.

“Donald was not a conscientious objector, but he really did not want to serve, and he was like millions of other young men during the Vietnam War who tried whatever they could do to get out of their service,” D’Antonio said.

CNN Tonight airs weekdays at 10 p.m. on CNN.

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