If you had “mocking another human’s physical handicap” as the next foot to go in Donald Trump’s mouth-congratulations.
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In an interview with Breitbart News, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski demanded that the widely-disproven footage does infact exist, and that the campaign forwarded it to media outlets who refuse to cover it, as part of an “anti-Trump conspiracy”.
The gesture was all the more personal because Kovaleski covered Mr Trump while reporting for the New York Daily News between 1987 and 1993, a tumultuous period for the businessman in which he struggled through several financial setbacks.
Earlier today, in Nevada, Carson backed up the claim from fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that Muslims in New Jersey were seen on TV celebrating the attacks.
Here’s the video – the moment starts at 46mins 40secs. The article was published in The Washington Post a few days after the terror attacks took place in 2011.
He said: “The poor guy”.
“I could have said: ‘Oh, I misspoke.’ I’m not big on that, am I?”
He told CNN this week: ‘I do not recall anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds, of people celebrating’. “If they break that agreement with him, as they say ‘woe be on them, ‘” Mr. Cohen said.
Some of Trump’s rivals for the Republican presidential nomination have commented on the unsubstantiated claim that Muslims in Jersey City were cheering on September 11.
Kovaleski – who, as a reporter for the Washington Post in 2001, had written an article that mentioned people in Jersey City “allegedly” celebrated the attacks – suffers from a congenital condition known as arthrogryposis. “That was not the case, as best as I can remember”.Rubio said: “It didn’t happen and there are fact checks to prove it”. “But I could never verify that report”.
Regarding the petition, Resnick told Business Insider that the imitation bothered him.
That statement was widely mocked by critics who doubted whether Mr Trump could have seen the disaster unfolding as his home – in the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, close to Central Park – was at the other end of Manhattan.
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The New York Times, where Kovaleski is an investigative reporter and culture correspondent, on Wednesday released a statement to Politico, which first reported the incident.
