The New York Times Carlos Slim’s blog got caught in a lie today about Donald Trump’s military service.

The Times’ bloggers Steve Eder and David Phillips write:

Many men of Mr. Trump’s age were looking for ways to avoid the war, said Charles Freehof, a draft counselor at Brooklyn College at the time, noting that getting a letter from a physician was a particularly effective option. “We had very little trouble with people coming back saying, ‘They wouldn’t accept my doctor’s note,’” Mr. Freehof said. Mr. Trump had a 1-Y classification, which was considered a temporary exemption. But in practice, only a national emergency or an official declaration of war, which the United States avoided during the fighting in Vietnam, would have resulted in his being considered for service. Neither occurred, and Mr. Trump remained 1-Y until 1972, when his status changed to 4-F, permanently disqualifying him. “For all practical purposes, once you got the 1-Y, you were free and clear of vulnerability for the draft, even in the case of the lottery,” Mr. [Richard] Flahavan [of the Selective Service] said.

Did you catch that slight of hand there?

Their whole argument is based on the assumption that TRUMP did something to move his classification, which was not the case. SAD!

The suggestion is that Trump wanted out of the draft. The real story is that the 1-Y category was discontinued in December 1971 and all 1-Y candidates were automatically made 4-F. The Chicago Tribune wrote about it on November 3, 1971 in an article titled, “Draft Kills 1Y Classification; New Board Rules Established.”

The Times’ bloggers were either too lazy or too stupid to find this obvious change.

“A major change not required by law wipes out the catchall 1Y classification that lumped together men with borderline physical disqualifications, homosexuals, criminals and a variety of others. From now on a man in this area will be given 4F as physically unfit, 1A-RR1, meaning being adjudicated, 1A-AO, meaning acceptance undetermined.”

In other words Trump was put into the 1Y category because of his foot injury, and was absolutely the reason he was reclassified to 4F. Note the phrase “borderline.” It’s important. It means that Trump wasn’t lying when he said the following to the Times’s bloggers.

Still, Mr. Trump, in the interviews, said he believed he could have been subject to another physical exam to check on his bone spurs, had his draft number been called. “I would have had to go eventually because that was a minor medical — it was called ‘minor medical,’” he said. But the publicly available draft records of Mr. Trump include the letters “DISQ” next to his exam date, with no notation indicating that he would be re-examined.

The Times lied; Trump told the truth.

Donald Trump has said that he is planning to bar the New York Times from his events. He should. Their interests and his interests aren’t aligned.

The Times, backed as it is by a Mexican-Lebanese billionaire like Carlos Slim, doesn’t have Trump’s (or America’s) interests at heart. He has his own. Trump’s goal of building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico would adversely affect Slim’s interests. If Slim got really hurt by renegotiating NAFTA he might have still less money to lavish on his journalism hobby and a whole lot of New York Times reporters would be out of work. More than have currently lost their jobs. The Times’s skin in the game is toward a more globalist world view. Trump has the opposite interests. He wants to “Make America Great Again.”

We’ve focused a lot on the New York Times’s lying bloggers at GotNews.com. We exposed how they lied about how Judge Curiel’s parents became citizens when they didn’t. And we’ve pointed out that the gay “reporter” sent to smear Trump on his rapport with women makes things up. To say nothing of the numerous hoaxes we’ve exploded largely to Trump’s benefit.

The more interesting question is why Trump and so many of Trump’s staffers continue to grant the Times and other anti-Trump publications interviews at all and why he hasn’t used the opportunity of this election to build a new media through the access Why hasn’t Milo Yiannopoulos introduced Trump at one of his rallies? Why doesn’t he mention that he has read Ann Coulter’s book Adios America? Why doesn’t Trump openly endorse Paul Ryan’s opponent Paul Nehlen when Ryan has gone around blacklisting Trump to the donors?

My bet is on inner circle squeamishness. At the GOP convention in Cleveland I was told by a Trumpian that GotNews.com and yours truly was on a media blacklist because GotNews.com associates with the alt right. Perish the thought! You mean we’d actually freely associate with the guys that we were winning? Where on earth would we get that that might be a good idea?

Of course we’ve always been fair to Trump at GotNews.com. Indeed, I wrote a piece about why Trump was going to do well for Takimag back in July of last year. I was already thanking Trump for all that he has done to shift the Overton Window on political discourse.

When I wrote for other publications Donald Trump routinely linked me — I learned the power of the big Twitter — but now that I’ve gone independent he hasn’t. That’s a shame but we’ve done well despite that lack of links. He might expose more people to GotNews.com and continue to reward his friends as he harms his enemies. Alas! (It’s much the same with Drudge. He has no problem linking people who steal GotNews.com but has linked GotNews.com only once or twice. Sad!)

If you want to continue to help fund GotNews.com please donate and we’ll use the money to continue doing research that changes the conversation. If you want to join our pro-Trump research group, email me at editor@gotnews.com.

The meta-purpose of this draft story is for the New York Times’s bloggers to stress that Donald Trump hasn’t sacrificed for

Maybe we’re all tired of sacrificing for stupid missionary wars or at the expense of hectoring, lecturing foreigners who tell us how to run our country.

Not Mr. Khazr Khan, though. His son made the sacrifice. In addition to writing about sharia law his immigration law practice would be adversely affected should Trump win. Good.

Trump has a “black soul” Khan says. Trump has a “dark” view of the world. Good.

It’s about time our leaders spoke to us as fellow citizens and our media told us the truth about the difficulties ahead.