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Posted On: 05/25/2019 11:06:32 AM
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ROBERT COSTA: Do you think he should have served in Vietnam?
PETE BUTTIGIEG: I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam.
ROBERT COSTA: You believe he faked a disability?
PETE BUTTIGIEG: Do you believe he has a disability? Yeah, at least not that one.
This is actually really important because I don't mean to trivialize disability. But I think that is exactly what he did.
When you think about the way someone can exploit the system, and needless to say, the way he has mocked disabled people is just one more example of his many affronts to basic decency. But manipulating the ability to get a diagnosis. If he were a conscientious objector, I'd admire that. But this is somebody who, I think it’s fairly obvious to most of us, took advantage of the fact that he was the child of a multimillionaire in order to pretend to be disabled so that someone could go to war in his place.
PETE BUTTIGIEG: I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam.
ROBERT COSTA: You believe he faked a disability?
PETE BUTTIGIEG: Do you believe he has a disability? Yeah, at least not that one.
This is actually really important because I don't mean to trivialize disability. But I think that is exactly what he did.
When you think about the way someone can exploit the system, and needless to say, the way he has mocked disabled people is just one more example of his many affronts to basic decency. But manipulating the ability to get a diagnosis. If he were a conscientious objector, I'd admire that. But this is somebody who, I think it’s fairly obvious to most of us, took advantage of the fact that he was the child of a multimillionaire in order to pretend to be disabled so that someone could go to war in his place.
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