All in all, I would say around a dozen times, I’ve interacted with him as a reporter while I was at The Daily News,” Kovaleski said. Kovaleski later said he had met Trump in person many times. “Serge Kovaleski must think a lot of himself if he thinks I remember him from decades ago - if I ever met him at all, which I doubt I did,” Trump said. Kovaleski said no proof was ever found and the key word “allegedly” was used.Īt a rally soon after, Trump said Kovaleski was “backing away” from the reporting and said “you gotta see this guy,” while flailing his arm.īut Trump said he was not mocking Kovaleski, claiming he never met him. Donald Trump defended his controversial comments about Fox News host Megyn Kelly and his alleged mocking of a disabled reporter. He referenced an article written in 2001 by Kovaleski, in which he reported police “detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties.” Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton is wrong to say he mocked a disabled reporter Once again, a comment by Donald Trump has become a point of contention in a presidential debate. Trump had come under fire for claiming Muslims in America celebrated after the 9/11 attacks. AMC is not a specific diagnosis, but rather a physical symptom that can be associated with many different medical conditions.” Kovaleski suffers from arthrogryposis, a rare condition that occurs when a “joint becomes permanently fixed in a bent or straightened position, which can impact the function and range of motion of the joint and may lead to muscle atrophy. A poll released Tuesday shows this man is the leading GOP candidate with 25 percent support among Republicans in Iowa.Trump very clearly mocked Kovaleski's disability: /59IuXeiLgu Last week people at a Trump rally attacked a Black Lives Matter protester while the candidate cheered from the podium. That was not the case, as best as I can remember." When asked about this scene, Kovaleski told CNN, "Much of that has, indeed, faded from memory … I do not recall anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds, of people celebrating. While mocking the reporter, Trump was referring to a 2001 story that Kovaleski wrote for The Washington Post, which referenced New Jersey, "law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river." Trump's supporters are using this quote to defend his claim that thousands of Muslim-Americans cheered the collapse of the World Trade Center. "The sad part about it is, it didn't in the slightest bit jar or surprise me that Donald Trump would do something this low-rent, given his track record," Kovaleski told The Washington Post. Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Tuesday night Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump seems to mock New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a chronic condition called. Kovaleski has worked with Trump for years, having covered the businessman for the New York Daily News between 19. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said again on Saturday that he didn’t mock a New York Times reporter with physical disabilities, but this time called for an apology from the.
"We think it's outrageous that he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters," a spokeswoman for the Times told Politico. at 6:31 am Donald Trump denied mocking a reporters physical disability insisting Thursday he has no idea what the journalist looks like, while lashing out at the 'financially.
"Now, the poor guy - you've got to see this guy, 'Ah, I don't know what I said! I don't remember!'" Trump said while flailing his arms around. He was referring to reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a chronic condition that affects his joints called arthrogryposis. This week, Trump mocked a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition during a campaign rally in South Carolina. Sadly, it wouldn't be a Donald Trump campaign stop without the Republican frontrunner saying or doing something offensive.
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