Trump has swerved military service five times - once by medical disqualification and then four more times for academic reasons

Donald Trump accepted a Purple Heart medal from a Vietnam War veteran, despite famously dodging military service himself.

The Republican presidential nominee has been branded “disrespectful” and “disgusting” for accepting the medal, given to him for his response to the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.

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Critics of Trump blasted the former president as “disrespectful” because the Purple Heart medal is given to service members who have greatly sacrificed themselves in war for the US military.

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“This is such performative nonsense,” someone else said. “Someone needs to tell everyone there, especially Trump and Dwight, that’s not how it works. Only the US military can officially give someone a Purple Heart, and that person has to be in the military.”

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