Remember, Kovaleski wrote that "a number of people" - not thousands - were allegedly seen celebrating. That was not the case, as best as I can remember," Kovaleski later told the Washington Post Fact Checker. "I certainly do not remember anyone saying that thousands or even hundreds of people were celebrating. Near the bottom of the story, they wrote that "law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river." But the reporters couldn’t verify the celebrations actually occurred. 18, 2001, story by Kovaleski - who then worked for the Washington Post - and another reporter. To defend this account, Trump seized on a Sept. Here’s why Trump singled out this reporter.Īt the time of the November rally, Trump was taking heat for his widely debunked claims that he watched in Jersey City, N.J., as "thousands and thousands of people were cheering" the collapse of the World Trade Center following the Sept. PolitiFact also contacted Kovaleski, who declined comment. Shame!" The Trump campaign did not respond to PolitiFact’s request for comment. Trump tweeted about the ad on Sunday: "Clinton made a false ad about me where I was imitating a reporter GROVELING after he changed his story. ( Watch a video of Kovaleski talking about his ground-breaking reporting on the murder cases against former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez.) Kovaleski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who speaks with a normal voice and doesn't wave his arms around. PolitiFact is fact-checking the obvious question: Did Trump mock the man’s disability?īut first, we want to separate Trump’s parody of the reporter from the reality.
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The TV ad (which you can watch in full at the bottom of this fact-check) is airing in seven crucial swing states - Colorado, Ohio, Nevada, Virginia, Florida, New Hampshire and Iowa. And I didn’t like what I saw," the father, Chris Glaros, adds.
"When I saw Donald Trump mock somebody with a disability, it showed me his soul, it showed me his heart. "You gotta see this guy," says Trump, wildly flailing his arms, his right hand flopping at an odd angle as he shouts in a weird, agitated voice: "Ahh, I don’t know what I said! Ahh, I don’t remember!" The ad cuts to a video clip of Trump at the rally. The ad shows a photo of the reporter, whose right hand is sharply angled at the wrist. Kovaleski has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition which limits the movement of his joints. Last fall, Trump was broadly criticized for appearing to physically mimic New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski at a campaign rally in South Carolina on Nov. "When I saw Donald Trump mock a disabled person, I was just shocked," Lauren Glaros says in the ad, produced by Priorities USA Action. The emotionally charged ad focuses on an Ohio couple, Chris and Lauren Glaros, talking about raising their daughter, Grace, who was born with a spinal defect. A super PAC backing Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton has launched a $20 million campaign that accuses her Republican opponent Donald Trump of "mocking" a disabled news reporter.
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