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Trump denies mocking journalist who has disability, demands an apology.

The Washington Post

Jose A. DelReal

A day after he was widely rebuked for mocking a reporter with a physical disability, business mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump on Thursday denied that he had done so and accused the reporter of “using his disability to grandstand.”

Trump also demanded an apology from the New York Times, the reporter’s employer, which earlier in the week issued a statement condemning Trump for ridiculing “the appearance of one of our reporters.”

The incident occurred Tuesday at a rally in South Carolina, as Trump was defending his recent claim that he had witnessed thousands of Muslims cheering in New Jersey on Sept. 11, 2001, as the World Trade Center towers collapsed. On stage, Trump berated Times investigative reporter Serge Kovaleski for his recent recollection of an article he wrote a few days after the attacks, which Trump has been citing to defend his claim.

Trump appeared to mock Kovaleski’s physical condition; the reporter has arthrogryposis, which visibly limits flexibility in his arms.  (And so do so many others but they don’t use their friends and disability to make a point.  The facts are 9/11 happened, that is a fact, and there were people who celebrated the hurt that America experienced, and that is a fact, and this is understandable because these same people’s IQ’s border the idiocy range.

“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 as he jerked his arms in front of his body.

Trump’s assertions about Muslims celebrating in 2001 have been fact-checked and discredited by law enforcement and government officials who were in New Jersey in the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks.  (And that is a lie – check Anderson Cooper on CNN reports.)

Trump has defended his recollections by citing a 2001 article by Kovaleski, who worked for The Washington Post at the time and wrote that “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.”

(There were Muslims all over the world who celebrated the hurt that America suffered – but the fact was –  the people in the 9/11 hurt were from all over the world – so it wasn’t just Americans who were killed.)

Those allegations were never corroborated but have persisted in online rumors in the 14 years since the attacks. In an interview on CNN this week, Kovaleski said he did not recall “anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds, of people celebrating.”

That is the statement that apparently drew Trump’s ire on Tuesday.

“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,” said Kovaleski, who frequently covered Trump while reporting for the New York Daily News between 1987 and 1993.

(The thing that struck me was how confident Kovaleski was about the definition of low-rent – it looks like he was looking at his own reflection in the mirror when he made that statement.)

In a statement Thursday, Trump adamantly denied that his comments or gestures were meant to mock Kovaleski. He also denied remembering Kovaleski at all — “despite having one of the all-time great memories.”

“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. “He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes.”
Kovaleski said in an interview this week that he’s sure Trump remembers him — and his disability. Trump indicated as much himself in the speech Tuesday, when he said, before he began an apparent impersonation with a series of jerking arm movements, that the article had been “written by a nice reporter.”
In his statement Thursday, Trump said: “I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovealski [sic] is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence. I don’t know if he is J.J. Watt or Muhammad Ali in his prime — or somebody of less athletic or physical ability. Despite having one of the all-time great memories I certainly do not remember him.”

(So why is Kovaleski thinking he is so special that a person of Trump’s caliber who interfaces with a lot of people would remember him in particular because after all he is not the only disabled person who sells newspapers.)

Trump added that he thought Kovaleski’s recollections about his 2001 article “seemed like (again without knowing what he looks like) he was groveling and searching for a way out from what he wrote many years before.”

In Kovaleski’s comments to CNN and other news organizations, the reporter pointed out that there were never any reports of thousands or even hundreds of Muslims celebrating, as Trump has claimed to have witnessed. Kovaleski has not contradicted the 14-year-old article.  (So what is he ragging about – fact established the article was written – all of this is just to make Trump look bad – sorry fellow – we have bigger fish to fry.)

Kovaleski’s friends and colleagues took to social media this week to excoriate Trump.  (Yes, they had to keep their jobs and try to sell newspapers by making this a big story.  Sorry fellows, that is why you are having such a hard time selling papers because you lie.)

“The measure of men. Know this: Serge Kovaleski, aka @sergenyt, is a journalistic rock star and one great colleague,” Times reporter Dan Barry wrote on Twitter.  (Sure, we are all rock stars in Jesus’ eyes.)

“@sergenyt is one of the best reporters — and best people— I know. This is despicable,” ESPN reporter and author Don Van Natta Jr. wrote.  (If he is honest, why did the Times deny the story?)

Trump took specific aim at the Times in his statement Thursday.

“They should focus on the survival of their newspaper and not on dishonest and very bad reporting about me,” he said. “The New York Times has become more and more irrelevant and rapidly becoming a total joke — sad!”

A Times representative declined Thursday to add to the paper’s earlier statement.

This reporter was hiding behind and using his disability for his own advantage.  People have to understand when they stick their nose into something, in all likelihood it will be cut off by the opposing party.That is the way bullys operate when they do get called out – they run back to mommy and cry telling mommy that Trump was treating him badly.

So if this reporter i going to complain just make sure what your part played in the bullying. Once you publish anything in the newspaper or  internet it is there forever.  This reporter was using his disability by trying to make people feel sorry for him and Trump called him out.  Now that is the kind of guy I want to be the leader – instead of the other candidates who are afraid of not being politically correct.

Come on Mr. Kovaleski,  put on your “MAN” pants instead of hiding behind your friends and your disability.  You can dish it out – but you can’t take it – just like all Socialist Democrats.  Let’s see, these Socialist Democrats are trying every trick in the books  to discredit Trump – now we are in  the D’s – called DISABILITIES.

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