Yesterday, we reported on the growing number of accusations being lobbed at Donald Trump.
And now, it seems, another one can be added to the list.�This week, Trump told local Fox hosts at "Good Day New York" that he didn't serve in Vietnam because he "got lucky" with his draft lottery number.
But The Smoking Gun uncovered documents that say otherwise.
"Selective Service records reveal that Trump, the fortunate son of a multimillionaire real estate baron, took repeated steps to avoid serving in Vietnam," the website reported. Documents obtained by the Smoking Gun via a records request from the National Archives show that Trump received four student deferments and then a medical deferment following his graduation from Wharton.
The documentary trail differs sharply from what Trump said during his "Good Day New York" interview Tuesday.
When asked how he avoided service in Vietnam, Trump replied:
Well, I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number... I was sitting in college, watching. I was going to the Wharton School of Finance and I was watching as they did the draft numbers and I got a very, very high number and those numbers [they] never got up to.
Watch video of the televised radio interview here via MyFoxNY.
The Smoking Gun poked yet another hole in Trump's story, reporting that Trump's number (356) was called up in the Vietnam lottery on Dec. 1, 1969, a full 18 months after Trump graduated from Wharton.
As Brian Bolduc of National Review Online noted yesterday, it was documented by Gwenda Blair in her book "Donald Trump: Master Apprentice" that Trump received a medical deferment "despite his athletic prowess."
As of midday Friday, Trump had yet to respond publicly to the reports.
(Photo of Trump: Julie Jacobson/AP)
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