Daughter
of podiatrist who helped get Trump out of Vietnam says ‘bone spurs’ are
a lie
The daughters of the
late Dr. Larry Braunstein, a one-time podiatrist based in Queens, have told the
New York Times that their father helped President Donald Trump escape getting
drafted during the Vietnam War by fabricating a diagnosis of bone spurs in his
feet.
56-year-old Dr. Elysa
Braunstein tells the Times that her late father implied that Trump did not
suffer from a debilitating foot ailment, and that he offered the bogus
diagnosis as a favor to Trump patriarch Fred Trump.
“I know it was a
favor,” explains Elysa Braunstein, whose account was also corroborated by her
sister, Sharon Kessel.
“What he got was access to Fred Trump. If there was
anything wrong in the building, my dad would call and Trump would take care of
it immediately. That was the small favor that he got.”
The daughters aren’t
certain that Weinstein, who passed away in 1995, helped their father concoct
Trump’s foot ailment, but they said their father “often mentioned” Weinstein
when discussing the Trump deferment scheme.