“I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovalski [sic] is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence”.
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During a campaign rally in SC on Tuesday GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump mocked NY Times reporter Serge Kovaleski for his disability.
“I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago”, Trump wrote. “I don’t remember!'”, Mr Trump said during his speech.
The Republican presidential candidate added that Kovaleski “should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a newspaper that is rapidly going down the tubes”.
When asked about the controversy, Kovaleski said in a statement, “I certainly do not remember anyone saying that thousands or even hundreds of people were celebrating”.
Trump’s exact words, per the footage below, were: “Now the poor guy [Kovaleski], you ought to see the guy, “Uh I don’t know what I said”. But the allegations were never found to be true, and in any event the story didn’t prove that Trump watched anyone cheering. “I don’t know if he is J.J. Watt or Muhammad Ali in his prime-or somebody of less athletic or physical ability”, Trump said in a statement to The Washington Post.
Joseph Caputo left a suicide note with a reference to “Star Wars”. As reported by JTA, Jay Ruderman, president of the Boston and Israel-based Ruderman Family Foundation said to the New York Times, “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. “The pattern is – he says something insulting, offensive and outrageous; the media pays attention; then he claims we all misunderstood him”, Fiorina said on “Fox News Sunday”. Kovaleski, who has a condition that limits the mobility of his joints, later said that he had never witnessed any large number of people celebrating the destruction on September 11.
“Somebody at the financially failing and totally biased New York Times said that, over the years, I have met Mr. Kovaleski”. “That was not the case, as best as I can remember”, Kovaleski told CNNMoney.
“I didn’t like the fact that he wrote a story and he took it back, because he talked about tailgate parties and other things you all saw, and many people knew what took place and everybody knows it took place worldwide, so why wouldn’t it take place in very strong Muslim communities, where they have a lot of Muslim communities?”
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“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.
