Haley Campaign Press Release - Donald Trump and the Mystery of the Spontaneous Bone Spurs

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Nikki Haley for President campaign released a new digital ad highlighting Donald Trump's mysterious ailment that exempted him from serving in the military: his bone spurs.

Read more in the Washington Examiner.

It's not The Hardy Boys but it's still a mystery: How did Donald Trump get a medical deferment from the military after previously being declared fit to serve? And why would the miraculously sprouting bone spurs keep him from military service but not his busy athletic schedule while in college? The plot thickened when Trump said he escaped the draft due to a high lottery number even though he had been medically exempted for more than a year.

Reportedly, the diagnosis of bone spurs came from a Queens, New York podiatrist who had a relationship with Trump's father, Fred.

"Donald Trump's excuse doesn't add up, but it does explain his disrespect for our service members and veterans," said Haley communications director Nachama Soloveichik. "A man who went to elaborate lengths to avoid the uniform at all costs can't understand the selfless sacrifice American heroes make."