Donald Trump Likens Military School He Was Forced to Attend to Serving in the Actual Military

Trump entered the military-themed boarding school located near West Point Military Academy in 1959 in the eighth grade at the insistence of his parents because of his poor behavior back home in Queens, and remained there through high school. 

"Later, the burgeoning real estate mogul received multiple deferments during the Vietnam War followed by a high draft number, and told biographer Michael Mr. D'Antonio that even though he never officially served, his training at the school was in keeping with the rigors of military life."

"My number was so incredible, and it was a very high draft number. Anyway, so I never had to do that, but I felt that I was in the military in the true sense because I dealt with those people," he said per the Times, confirming he received a medical deferment for heel spurs."

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