Maybe that's what I said.'" Trump flailed and jerked his arms around, something which Kovaleski is not able to do, and which Trump had done several times previously to mock perceived cowardice in other individuals. Uhh, I don't remember,' he's going like 'I don't remember. In apparent response to this written statement, Trump said in a November 25, 2015, speech in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, "You've got to see this guy: 'Uhh, I don't know what I said. That was not the case, as best as I can remember." "I certainly do not remember anyone saying that thousands or even hundreds of people were celebrating.
#Donald trump mocks disabled reporter video verification#
Kovaleski issued the following written statement in response to the Trump campaign's adoption of his report as an independent verification of New Jersey-based celebrations following the destruction of the World Trade Center: According to the article, "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". Īfter this claim was questioned, the Trump campaign referred to a September 18, 2001, Washington Post article that Kovaleski had co-authored with Fredrick Kunkle, as substantiation of the claim. In a speech at a November 24, 2015, rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed that "thousands and thousands of people were cheering" in Jersey City, New Jersey, as the World Trade Center collapsed. Navy SEAL Team Six abused Afghan detainees. Naylor and John Ismay received a George Polk Award for their investigation into allegations that members of the U.S. In 2016, he and Nicholas Kulish, Christopher Drew, Mark Mazzetti, Matthew Rosenberg, Sean D. In 2009, Kovaleski received a Pulitzer Prize for "Breaking News Reporting".
He joined the Culture desk as an investigative journalist in 2014, and moved to the National desk in 2016. He joined The New York Times in July 2006 as an investigative and general assignment reporter on the Metro desk.
He then worked for the New York Daily News, The Washington Post and Money magazine. Kovaleski began his journalism career in the mid-1980s at The Miami News. His travels through Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired him to become a journalist. After receiving his bachelor's degree, Kovaleski studied French philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. He graduated in 1984 from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a degree in philosophy. His father, Fred Kovaleski, was a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s. Early life īorn in Cape Town, South Africa, Kovaleski spent his early childhood in Sydney, Australia, until his family moved to New York City in the 1970s. He contributed to reporting that won The New York Times a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. Serge Frank Kovaleski (born April 8, 1961) is a South African-born American investigative reporter at The New York Times. If Serge Kovaleski were Trump’s employee, and he pursued a disability-related claim against him, the above video would be Exhibit A.Pulitzer Prize, 2009 George Polk Award, 2016 2014), the court denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment as to plaintiff’s disability discrimination claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act, citing (among other things) a manager’s “particularly mean-spirited mocking of in front of a customer because was walking slowly and with a pronounced limp.” In the employment discrimination context, evidence of disability mocking can be cited as evidence of a hostile work environment. It was cruel, unnecessary, and the opposite of presidential. As a plaintiffs’ civil rights lawyer, the most glaring is his apparent mocking of a disabled reporter. That said, there are many reasons why I think Donald Trump should/must not be president.
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