Kaine hints Trump faked health condition to dodge draft

The Virginia senator’s insinuation came as he continued his week-long campaign to cast doubt on Trump’s claim he is in good physical shape.

“Look, the one good thing we can say about Trump’s health is apparently the medical issue that kept him out of the services magically cleared up, because now he’s the healthiest individual who has ever going to be elected,” Kaine, whose son is a United States Marine, said at a campaign stop in Bethlehem, Pa.

“So I guess we got a medical miracle working here,” he said to laughs.

The only medical record that Trump has made publicly available is a hastily written letter claiming he would “be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

Trump’s physician, Harold Bornstein, told NBC News last week, “I don’t think he’s in any better or worse (shape) than the average person that goes and exercises every single day.”

“Doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink — and that’s simply the best advantage you can have to live — and he’s got a good family history,” he said.

On Wednesday, Kaine took aim at Bornstein’s letter specifically, and joked before the crowd in Bethlehem that Trump’s health diagnosis is a bit funny considering the GOP nominee’s alleged health issues.

Trump received five draft deferments during Vietnam: Four for college and one for bone spurs.

“Back in 1968, at the age of 22, Donald J. Trump seemed the picture of health,” the New York Times reported. “He stood 6 feet 2 inches with an athletic build; had played football, tennis and squash; and was taking up golf. His medical history was unblemished, aside from a routine appendectomy when he was 10.”

“But after he graduated from college in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels,” the report noted.

Trump had already received four draft deferments for being in college. The bone spur diagnosis marked his fifth deferment.