Claims extracted
26
sentences that state something as happening or true
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0 of 26 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Publisher signals
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Politics
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An activist group targeted Donald Trump with a statue on the National Mall mocking the President's draft deferments during the Vietnam War.
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group → target → War
The President famously received five separate draft deferments during the 1960s and 70s, including one for a medical condition – a bone spur in his heel.
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President → receive → heel
His doctor's children later said the diagnosis was a 'favor' for Trump's late father.
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diagnosis → say → father
The Secret Handshake – a group that has targeted Trump with statues mocking his friendship with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein – went after the President again.
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that → target → President
The group is behind a statue called 'Foot Soldier' that shows Trump rubbing his feet in an attempt to poke fun at the bone spurs that allowed him to avoid the draft.
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him → call → draft
A plaque on the statue includes a sarcastic celebration of the President for his lack of service.
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plaque → include → service
We honor the service and sacrifice of our commander in chief, Donald J Trump.
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We → honor → chief
He's a soldier in spirit who marched to the front lines of dodging the draft, armed with a perfect diagnosis of bone spurs,' it reads.
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it → march → spurs
'We salute a leader who knows you can't spell sacrifice without 'I,' and a warrior who reminds us that sometimes when you're called to stand up, it's best to just sit down and rest your feet.
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it → salute → feet
Standing next to the statue was a mascot named 'Toey.'
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mascot → stand → statue
An activist group targeted Donald Trump with a statue on the National Mall mocking the President's draft deferments during the Vietnam War
The President famously received five separate draft deferments during the 1960s and 70s, including one for a medical condition – a bone spur in his heel – that the diagnosing doctor's children said last year was a 'favor' for Trump's late father
The six-foot tall toe was himself suffering from bone spurs and allowed the presentation to have an 'interactive element.'
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presentation → target → element
It went on to make jokes exaggerating the President's penchant for bragging.
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It → go → bragging
I hardly know her.
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I → know → her
Largest toe that anyone's ever seen,' the mascot said.
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mascot → see → that
The Secret Handshake is keeping the statue up, with security detail, until Wednesday, which is Veterans' Day.
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which → keep → Wednesday
'Trump Derangement Syndrome is a sick and incurable disease that has rotted the brains of these Democrat activists,' White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement.
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Ingle → rot → statement
'President Trump will never waver in fighting for and protecting the American people.'
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Trump → waver → people
The tale about the President's bone spurs has dogged him throughout his decade-plus in politics.
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tale → dog → politics
As candidate in 2016, Trump dismissed Sen. John McCain's iconic war-hero status because 'he was captured.'
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he → dismiss → status
He was then asked to explain why he never served in uniform.
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he → ask → uniform
After an unperturbed Trump told reporters about his bone spur, he waved off a question about which foot had been the problem, saying someone would 'have to check the records.'
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someone → tell → records
He later claimed it was both.
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it → claim → ?
A plaque on the statue includes a sarcastic celebration of the President for his lack of service
Standing next to the statue was a mascot named 'Toey'
McCain, who died in 2018, survived more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison after the shoot-down crash of his US Navy jet.
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who → include → jet
He received a Purple Heart, a Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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He → receive → Heart
Trump told radio shock-jock Howard Stern in 1997 that surviving the sex-fueled 1980s in Manhattan was his 'personal Vietnam.'
Trump said bed-hopping with models made him feel like a 'great and very brave soldier,' and that he was 'lucky' to escape without a venereal disease.
Ultimately he conceded to New Hampshire voters in 2015 that he felt 'a little guilty' for not serving in Vietnam.
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he → tell → Vietnam
As president, Trump has made two separate trips to Vietnam.
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Trump → make → Vietnam
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