Donald Trump Mocks a Reporter’s Disability, Says That He Didn’t

“Now the poor man, you gotta see this man”, the politician said, before launching into an obvious impression of Mr Kovaleski, waving his arms about along with his hands at an unusual angle.

Now, Trump has tried to explain via Twitter he “didn’t know” that the reporter suffered from the condition, and was therefore not impersonating him.

“I spent the entire day with Trump, along with some other reporters, on the inaugural voyage of the Trump Shuttle, which Trump bought from Eastern Airlines in the late 1980s”, Kovaleski told The News in an email on Friday.

Trump, who has stunned the political world with his staying power at the top of the Republican presidential field, cites the story as proof of his claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the devastation across the river.

“I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovalski is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence”, he wrote in a message.

In a statement released Thursday evening, Trump’s campaign “demanded an apology from the failing New York Times which accused him… of mocking a reporter’s physical disability when in fact, Mr. Trump does not know anything about the reporter or anything about what the reporter looks like. I don’t remember!'” Trump said, jerking his arms as he spoke. Serge Kovaleski of The New York Times says he has met Trump repeatedly, interviewing him in his office and talking to him at news conferences.

In South Carolina, Trump took issue with subsequent comments made by Kovaleski on CNN that he couldn’t remember all of the details of his reporting from that time but that he didn’t remember large numbers of people celebrating.

A spokesperson for The Times called Trump’s actions “outrageous”, while Kovelski said he wasn’t surprised to see the party’s front-runner stoop to a new low.

The gesture was more personal for Kovaleski, who religiously covered Trump while reporting for the New York Daily News from 1987 to 1993. “‘Ah, I don’t know what I said!” “I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago”. Kovaleski said in a recent interview that he did “not recall anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds of people celebrating”.