4/27/2023 0 Comments Trump mocks reporterNote that Trump first says the article was “written by a nice reporter.” (Kovaleski is indeed nice.) Then he could goes on to mock him, jerking his arms in front of his body: “Now, the poor guy, you ought to see this guy, ‘Ah, I don’t know what I said, I don’t remember, I don’t remember, maybe that’s what I said. Here, below, is a video of Trump speaking about Kovaleski on Nov. ‘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. I didn’t know it, I didn’t know it at all. The Fact Checker also contacted his co-author, Fredrick Kunkle, who said despite his shoe-leather reporting, the alleged celebrations could never be confirmed: “I specifically visited the Jersey City building and neighborhood where the celebrations were purported to have happened. Kovaleski, incidentally, was not the only author of the article. Watch Donald Trump mock reporters disability Kovaleskis story referred to FBI probes of the alleged celebrations, but quoted no witnesses and contained no specific evidence that. In other words, he was simply confirming what the article said-that “a number” of people were alleged to have celebrated, not thousands or even hundreds. He simply said he did not remember anything that matched Trump’s description. In other words, Kovaleski did not say he made a mistake and did not try to “change” the article. This is total fantasy, especially the suggestion that the Clinton campaign was upset and somehow got to Kovaleski and made him change his story. 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. “The author of this article was this guy. “Allegedly” indicates there is no video footage or other proof that celebrations actually took place. The language in no way confirms Trump’s claiming of watching on television celebrations of “thousands” of Muslims. Nope, not a single fact checker found this article to be significant. It was pretty much on point, not 100 percent, but pretty much.” Kovaleski told the Washington Post that Trump must remember him since he covered him from 1987 to 1993.“And it really shut a lot of people up. "I have tremendous respect for people who are physically challenged and have spent tens of thousands of dollars throughout buildings all over the world on making them handicapped accessible and ADA (American Disability Act) compliant." "I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago. "I have no idea who Serge Kovaleski is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence," he said in a statement. Trump was widely criticized for his gestures, but said he didn’t know what Kovaleski looked like. "Now the poor guy, you gotta see this guy," the politician said, before starting what many saw as an impersonation of Kovaleski. Kovaleski reportedly wrote that "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" in Jersey City, New Jersey.īut the reporter told CNN he did not see “thousands, or even hundreds” of people celebrating.Īt the South Carolina rally, Trump said Kovaleski was backing down from his own story. Kovaleski suffers from a congenital joint condition called arthrogryposis.Īccording to Trump, Kovaleski’s 2001 reporting supports Trump’s controversial claim that "thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated watching the World Trade Center towers collapse. presidential hopeful Donald Trump has denied he made fun of a disabled New York Times reporter earlier this week.ĭuring a campaign rally in South Carolina on Tuesday, the billionaire candidate flailed his arms when referring then- Washington Post reporter Serge Kovaleski and an article he wrote about the 9/11 2001 suicide hijacking attacks on New York and Washington.
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