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Cheating is such a broad term, does he mean cheating like Trump did on many of his wives, cheating at golf, cheating in elections, cheating on tax returns, cheating on business appraisals, I mean, there are so many types of cheating, what is he referring to?
Just magically develop bone spurs and you can get out of this, Vietnam
Make this a high priority goal for the discovery of time travel, go back and incapacitate anyone who could prevent young Donny from getting drafted. Maybe do the same for Marion Morrison (John Wayne) too, might get a headstart on tackling toxic masculinity as a society.
See, I've never liked that 'go back in time and tweak things to make a small change' line of thought. There's too many ways you can either make something worse happen (Trump gets drafted in Vietnam, but manages to spend the entire time as file clerk and comes back and now gets to hang the 'I'm a veteran!' flag on his hat) or it won't accomplish what you meant.
Basically, if you had a time machine and were trying to stop future events, there's really only one approach you should be considering.
Could be that someone smarter and even more corrupt ends up where he is now. Maybe he would've ended up a different person if his parents died while he was over there and he came back with less inclination to live on the jetset.
Taking him off the board doesn't do much to shake the Republican party. That kind of institutional rot needs a lot of resources and manpower to compromise.