On Thanksgiving trump tweeting, I do not know the reporter F for ” the NY times” or what he looks like. Mr. Kovaleski has a condition called arthrogryposis, which limits and affects his arm movements, so Mr. Trump mocked him by jerking his arms about as he said, “Now, the poor guy – you’ve got to see this guy, ‘Ah, I don’t know what I said!” In an interview this week, Kovaleski said he could not recall saying there were thousands of people. “Maybe that’s what I said.'” While he said that, he flailed his arms wildly, imitating the angle at which Kovaleski’s hand sometimes rests. I don’t remember.’ He’s going, ‘I don’t remember. “What really happened? I think it’s very important for me to say”.
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The controversy started when Trump cited Kovaleski’s reporting during a speech earlier this week in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He said that if “Mr. Kovaleski is handicapped, I would not know because I do not know what he looks like”. “I don’t know if he’s J.J. Watt or Muhammad Ali in his prime – or somebody of less athletic or physical ability”. In the attempt, Trump read a passage from reporter Serge Kovaleski’s 2001 Washington Post story that noted police questioned a few individuals who were allegedly celebrating the attacks.
“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. Many people were none too pleased with Trump’s impression of the reporter.
None of those allegations were ever substantiated and Trump’s claim that “thousands” in New Jersey celebrated the terrorist attacks has been rebutted by law enforcement and government officials. Trump repeatedly declared that he would “never mock a person” due to their disability. Yet in a previous stint with the New York Daily News, Kovaleski covered Trump himself between 1987 and 1993.
Trump made fun of the reporter as he defended his unsubstantiated assertion that during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, he watched on television as “thousands and thousands” of people in New Jersey cheered while the World Trade Center fell.
Trump had pointed to the story to back his claims and took issue with Kovaleski’s recent statement that he did not remember anyone alleging that a large number of Muslims were celebrating.
“Trump held press conferences in Boston and Washington, D.C., during each stop”.
In fact, Kovaleski knows Trump well enough not to be shocked by the billionaire’s insults.
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According to Politico in 2011, Trump also had a call with the organization’s head that year too.
