Donald Trump Accused of Mocking Reporter with Disability

The article doesn’t actually say that, but Trump told supporters that Kovaleski was now backing away from his original reporting.

Kovaleski said he doubted Trump’s claims, particularly as the reporter often covered the businessman while reporting for the New York Daily News between 1987 and 1993.

“You have some guy named Smerconish who I’ve never even heard of…”, Trump said on Fox and Friends in May 2014 when talking about former Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

“I didn’t know him, it’s possible, probable that I met him somewhere along the line, but I deal with reporters every day”, Trump told the crowd. Kovaleski said this week that he did not recall anyone making a statement that there had been thousands or hundreds of people who celebrated.

He said he was simply mocking a person’s “groveling”, and the fact Kovaleski has a disability was unknown to him. I would certainly repudiate – I don’t know anything about him.

He wrote: “If Mr. Kovaleski is handicapped, I would not know, because I do not know what he looks like. I don’t remember!'” The Times took issue with the gesticulations Trump made as he spoke that appeared to imitate Kovaleski’s arthrogryposis, a condition in which muscles fail to move properly and limbs may be frozen.

Trump, however, said Kovaleski must have a huge ego if he believes a man as important as him would remember a lowly journalist.

DOES Donald Trump’s ridicule know no bounds? The story said that the law enforcement authorities questioned a number of people after detaining them who were seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style ceremonies on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.

Trump’s initial comments on Tuesday were prompted by challenges to his repeated claim that he saw “thousands” of Muslims celebrating in Jersey City, N.J., after the September 11 terror attacks.

Kovaleski’s story referred to Federal Bureau of Investigation probes of the alleged celebrations, but quoted no witnesses and contained no specific evidence that celebrations occurred. While discussing that controversy at a rally on Tuesday, Trump said “The poor guy, you gotta see this guy”, before launching into an apparent impression of the reporter that involved flailing his arms and shaking. I will probably be going to Sarasota, Florida, today for an enormous rally with superb people! Ah, I don’t remember what I said! “I just want to say upfront, right now, Second Amendment 100%”. In July, Trump made a remark about columnist Charles Krauthammer, who now works for the Washington Post, has been critical of the Republican candidate and who is also paralyzed from the waist down.

“It is unacceptable for a child to mock another child’s disability on the playground, never mind a presidential candidate mocking someone’s disability as part of a national political discourse”, Ruderman said.