As President Trump faces criticism for being the first president not to visit U.S. troops on Christmas since 2002 he chose a to hold a video conference this year comes a new claim that could inflict further damage on his reputation with the military.

On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that the two daughters of a late Queens podiatrist are going public with a claim that their father diagnosed the future president with bone spurs in 1968 as a favor to his landlord, Trump patriarch Fred C. Trump. The diagnosis allowed Donald Trump to get a medical exemption that allowed him to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War.

Dr. Elysa Braunstein and Sharon Kessel the daughters of Dr. Larry Braunstein, who died in 2007 say their father was one of Fred Trumps tenants at the time, setting up his podiatry practice in the Trump-owned Edgerton Apartments in Jamaica, Queens. Though they are unsure whether their dad actually examined the then 22-year-old Donald Trump, the sisters say that he often spoke of signing off on the diagnosis that kept Trump out of the war. The doctor also gave them the impression that Trump didnt actually have bone spurs, but he said otherwise to help keep him out of the draft, they say.