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WASHINGTON Donald Trump said he couldnt have been making fun of a reporters disability because he doesnt know the man. Not so, says the reporter.
Serge Kovaleski of The New York Times says he has met Trump repeatedly, interviewing him in his office and talking to him at news conferences, when he worked for the New York Daily News in the late 1980s. Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years, he said in a Times story about the Republican presidential candidates behavior at a rally in South Carolina last week.
Onstage Tuesday, a mocking Trump flailed his arms in an apparent attempt to imitate mannerisms of the poor guy. He accused Kovaleski of backing off a story from a week after the 9/11 attacks that said authorities in New Jersey detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks. Kovaleski then worked for The Washington Post.
Trump cites the story as proof of his claim that thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the devastation across the river. But the story did not suggest thousands were observed celebrating or that the reports of such a scene were true. Other accounts from that time concluded the allegations were unfounded.
Kovaleski has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that restricts joint movement. In his speech, Trump cited the 2001 story, written by a nice reporter, and went on: Now the poor guy, you oughta see this guy uh, I dont know what I said, uh, I dont remember. Hes going like, I dont remember. He made jerking gestures and his voice took on a mocking tone.
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HuckleB
(35,773 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)watched Fox "News" back in 2001 because I actually believed the lie that they were "fair and balanced". The video Trump is referring to was footage of supposed Muslims in East Jerusalem, not New Jersey, but there were only a handful, and not "thousands and thousands".
Trump, as we all know, is a BIG, FAT LIAR.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)sorry S.O.B.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Gothmog
(145,619 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But for friends of Trump, keep this in mind: When bump came to nudge (not even a push and certainly not a shove), Trump had no hesitation in mocking and denigrating a man he's known for years. How long before any of you Trump supporters cross some invisible line and end up on the very public receiving end of his scorn?
Political reporters: What are you waiting for? Remember Pastor Martin Niemoller's rueful words. Will there be anyone to speak up for the country after you've abdicated your responsibility to report what's happening right before your eyes?