The lesson: It’s best to maintain plausible deniability, but failing that, implausible deniability can sometimes suffice. His steadfast refusal to back down on the matter, demanding an apology from the Times (really) just adds another freak attraction to the three-ring circus of his candidacy. Why it matters (or doesn’t): Oh, who knows? Mocking disabilities is generally considered verboten, but so are many other things Trump does. Kovaleski pointed out he has interviewed Trump at least a dozen times, going back to a tenure at the New York Daily News. The defense: “I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovalski, is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence,” Trump said in a statement. ‘Ah, I don’t know what I said! I don’t remember!’” Trump said, doing what looks a lot like a mocking physical impression of Kovaleski. “Now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy. The real Continue reading 'Donald Trump Mocks Disabled Reporter, Denies Ever Meeting.

While defending his claim (thoroughly debunked by major media outlets) that thousands and thousands cheered at the fall of the World Trade Center on 9/11 over in New Jersey, Trump mocked a reporter Serge Kovaleski who now works for the New York Times. Trump cited the story Kovaleski, who suffers from a joint condition called arthrogryposis and is now a New York Times reporter, disputed Trump’s reading. Donald Trump has stepped in it yet again. I would never do that.The gaffe: During the dustup over Trump’s imagined massive Muslim celebrations in Jersey City after 9/11, one point of contention was a Washington Post article by Serge Kovaleski.

All of a sudden, I get reports that I was imitating a reporter who was handicapped. ‘I was wrong, I promise you, I made a mistake when I wrote the article.’ He was groveling, grovel, grovel, grovel. And I said he’s groveling, he said, ‘no, no, the article, I was wrong on the article.’ I was doing a whole big number. Everyone know what grovel is? At the time I did the act, I did the whole thing with groveling. So I started imitating somebody - I didn’t speak to the guy - somebody that was groveling. So trump disabled reporter serge kovaleski cannot smell the report that allow abhorrent and then i would.

I didn’t know it, I didn’t know it at all. This is not good.’ So all of the sudden, the guy - I think the article was almost 15 years old - he starts changing the article, that he made a mistake, he this, he that. And obviously the other side of things started calling him also, saying ‘this article is not good, because this is sort of confirming what Trump is saying. And the author of this article was this guy.

It was an article written by a major newspaper. It was pretty much on point, not 100 percent, but pretty much. And it was great and I said here’s the article. The condition, called arthrogryposis, limits Kovaleskis ability to move his arms. And I said, ‘here’s an article.’ I said I think he was with The Washington Post when he wrote the article. According to CNN Money and other news outlets, Donald Trump publicly harangued New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski at a campaign rally in South Carolina on Tuesday evening, openly mocking Kovaleskis affliction with a physical disability. And the article is a great article for me. And all of suddenly someone comes up with an article and the article is written by this guy who said he met me many, many years ago. “I said, ‘dancing, rooftops, street, whatever.’ And we couldn’t find too much stuff confirming what I said. Donald Trump Appears to Mock Disabled Reporter.

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