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‘Brave’ Trump boasts to govs Outrage at ‘Capt. Bone Spurs’

- BY GRAHAM RAYMAN

PRESIDENT TRUMP claimed Monday that he would have rushed into the mayhem of a Parkland, Fla., school shooting to save students even if he wasn’t armed.

Trump — who once told Howard Stern blood is “not my thing” because it’s “disgusting” — made the claim in an address to a meeting of the nation’s governors.

Several Broward County sheriff’s deputies are under investigat­ion for failing to intervene in the Feb. 14 massacre that killed 17, and one has resigned.

Trump — who received four college deferments from fighting in Vietnam along with a fifth for bone spurs in his heels — suggested he would have been a man of action.

“You know, I really believe you don’t know until you test it, but I think I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Trump told 39 of the nation’s governors.

“I think most of the people in this room would have done that, too. I know most of you. But the way they performed was really a disgrace.”

Asked about his comments, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, “I think he was stating that as a leader, he would have stepped in and hopefully been able to help as a number of the individual­s that were in the school, the coach and other adults and even a lot of the students stepped up and helped protect other students. The point he was making is that he would have wanted to play a role in that.”

The social media reaction to Trump’s remark was less than favorable. “I believe you, Captain Bone Spurs & I really believe that due to an unexpected write-in vote, I’ll win an Oscar this Sunday,” “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill posted on Twitter.

Twitter user Noah Berlatsky posted, “Trump’s boasts are ridiculous . . . but also despicable! He’s turning the mass shooting of children into an opportunit­y to fantasize about his own personal bravery.”

Trump went on to say that the deputies under investigat­ion for their roles in the shooting “weren’t exactly Medal of Honor winners.”

In a 2008 interview with Stern, Trump recalled an incident where an elderly man fell and cracked his head in front of him. Trump said he didn’t help the man because he was disgusted by the sight of blood.

“If you cut your finger and there’s blood pouring out, I’m

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