Donald Trump: NYT reporter Serge Kovaleski ‘should stop using his disability

The newspaper released an archived news article this Friday, contradicting Donald Trump statement that he knew nothing about Serge Kovaleski, the reporter whose disability he appeared to mock.

In a statement The New York Times said, “We find it’s outrageous that he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters”. He also denied that he remembered Kovaleski from before, despite what he called having one of the all time best memories.

Serge Kovaleski of The New York NY Times states he has met Trump repeatedly, interviewing him in his workplace & speaking to him at news source conferences, when he worked for the New York NY Daily News source within the late 1980s. “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”.

Trump referred to Kovaleski in a speech Tuesday as he defended his claim that Muslims had cheered on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Then, he jerked his arms in front of his body, mocking the reporter who suffers from arthrogryposis, a condition that limits his ability to move his joints. “Maybe that’s what I said.'” As he spoke, Trump launched into an impression which involved gyrating his arms wildly and imitating the unusual angle at which Kovaleski’s hand sometimes rests.

“Now the poor guy, you gotta see this guy: ‘Uhh, I don’t know what I said”. “Ah, I don’t know what I said”.

“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”, the Washington Post quoted him saying in a separate interview. As for Mr. Kovaleski, ever since the Republican made his statement, tried to say that his report did not bear out “thousands” or “hundreds” of people. “He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes”. He specifically pointed to an article Kovaleski wrote while at The Washington Post, in which he claimed, “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”.

In a story in the New York Times on Thursday, Kovaleski painted a different picture.

“Our presidential candidates should be moral examples for all Americans and not disparage people with disabilities, who make up 20 per cent of the American population”, said Mr Jay Ruderman, the foundation president.