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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Life is tough. Get over it.
They sure did. Libs can dish it out, but they can't take it.
Yes, the left mocked Greg Abbott.
They also called Sarah Palin’s baby a ‘tard.
Delightful people.....not.
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.
click on the YouTube vid to find out who the Media's Daddy is...
That's right - TRUMP is the Media's Daddy. :)
That is pretty hard to believe. The reporter has apparently been covering Trump for decades, Trump opened his remarks by saying something like “you gotta see this guy,” and his impression just happened to pretty closely mimic the arm position and spasticity caused by the reporter’s disability. It strains credibility to suggest that it’s just a coincidence.
And I’m really not sure why Trump would be attacking the guy’s reporting anyway. Back in 2001, the guy reported that some people had been arrested after “allegedly” being seen celebrating. The reporter never reported seeing these celebrations, and never reported that the celebrations had even been corroborated. Which is all he has said recently. Trump is wrong when he says the guy has backed down from his initial reporting.
Is there a video online of Kovaleski on CNN renouncing the report? So far, all I can find are videos of Trump allegedly making fun of Kovaleski.
Non-PC says that we are all idiots, so don't be ashamed of your idiocy.
It's not that PC is a problem...it is that the Left is using PC to kill free speech.
In other words, be proud of who you are and the struggles that life has dealt you.
Don't hide behind PC and say "I need a safe place."
You're alright Mikey. You'll come around.
Trump is an asshole. But he's our asshole.
That said, I don't hold your opinion against you. Just do what you think is right...and that's enough.
Kovaleski is a crying liebaby. :)
Democrats do things that would make a murder of crows blush, but that’s no big deal and reminding them of it is bad form.
A non-Democrat cocks an eyebrow at the wrong time, according to the Democrats, and he’s expected to mea culpa while walking on his knees for thirty days straight.
Screw that.
If that included bold face lying, I can’t say I approve.
Welcom to Freerepublic, Dailykos seems very boring uh!!
Where was the outrage when Bath House Barry mocked the Special Olympics?
The mealy-mouthed worm Serge wants to have it both ways.
He got in the political arena, we can rough him up just like anybody else, the whining little scumbag.
please see above.
Thank you.
Trump and his minions can try denying this one all day — ain’t gonna fly, however.
About damn time our side fought back and used ridicule on the Left.
please see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3365330/posts?page=33#33
I;m not about to argue the rightness of this
I will simply leave the evidence for others to ponder.
That said, this is the way Trump controls the narrative and the news cycle.
He presses the edge of the envelope but inserts just enough confusion that any number of conclusions can be drawn.
Trump knows the world is at war.
We are at war with islam, with the Left, and with the media (and that includes the NYTimes).
These are the enemies he is exposing.
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