Posted on 11/26/2015 2:48:04 PM PST by RoosterRedux
GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he does not know the disabled New York Times reporter he is accused of mocking.
"I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovaleski is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence," Trump said in a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday. "I don't know if he's J.J. Watt or Muhammad Ali in his prime--or somebody of less athletic or physical ability."
Trump cited an article written by Kovaleski in 2001, when he wrote for The Washington Post, that appeared to corroborate the businessman's story of seeing Arab-Americans in New Jersey celebrating as the World Trade Center towers came down.
After Kovaleski, who suffers from a chronic condition that impairs the movement of his arms, went on CNN to renounce the report, Trump appeared to mimic the journalist on stage at a South Carolina rally.
"Now the poor guy, you gotta see this guy: 'Uhh, I don't know what I said. I don't remember.' He's going, 'I don't remember. Maybe that's what I said,' " Trump said at the rally, flailing his arms as he imitated Kovaleski. "That was 14 years ago--they didn't issue a retraction."
The New York Times said it is "outrageous" that Trump would "ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters."
But Trump now claims that he has no idea what Kovaleski looks like.
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Ping
Just Trump being Trump.
Apparently, ol' Serge went on up to Wasilla to bird-dog and harass Sarah Palin for a spell of time, back when she was on the Left's Most Wanted list.
Kovaleski is bottom-feeding scum.
Doesn’t he have a one-legged sister nicknamed `Peg’?
He was obviously mocking the guy physicallywhich doesn’t bother me.Should own up to it.
Could have been worse.
He could have asked a handicapped, paralyzed man in a wheelchair to stand up.
and that proves.....that he wasnt mocked due to his appearance?
there are two concepts at work here let us not conflate them.
If you're a gimp...you're a gimp. Be proud of it and quit your whining.
If you mean Trump defending himself, rightly so, then I agree.
Go Trump! Don’t let the evil MSM get away with their nasty tricks.
It proves that he and his employer take advantage of his disability to play the Gimp Card.
Which they're gleefully playing on Trump. Screw them.
He's showing the media that he's the boss of them now.
Serge’s brother Matt doesn’t have any arms or legs...
Thanks for pointing out the truth, for those inclined to play along with the depraved NYS.
Last year didn’t the Texas Democrats mock now-Governor Abbott for being in a wheelchair?
Seem to recall something along those lines.
You are now a negative force.
what does being completely NON PC mean?
I would venture to guess that it doesnt mean the same thing to “everybody”
I mean this isnt a capital crime but if it were a case of the poor schlubs having been mocked....I’d say it would have been a tad childish.
I’ll bet he’s popular playing sandlot baseball—as home plate.
Stand up, Chuck
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