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Trump incited backlash this week after he did an impression of reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a condition that affects his joint movements.
Trump referenced an article Kovaleski wrote, noting, "Now the poor guy, you ought to see the guy.”
While quoting Kovaleski, Trump jerked his arms and body and held his hands in a claw-like manner reminiscent of the disease’s symptom.
An unidentified Trump campaign official told The Washington Post that Trump wasn’t mocking Kovaleski’s appearance and had no idea he had a condition.
Kovaleski, who covered Trump for the New York Daily News for several years in the late 1980s and early ’90s, told The Washington Post that he’s sure Trump remembers him and his physical ailments.
He said that Trump’s behavior “didn’t in the slightest bit jar or surprise me.”
It shouldn’t have, since it’s not the first time Trump has appeared to stoop to deriding someone’s physical disabilities.
In July, NBC’s Katy Tur asked Trump about the criticism he received from columnists Charles Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg -- specifically, Krauthammer calling Trump a “rodeo clown.”
Trump responded, “I went out, I made a fortune, a big fortune, a tremendous fortune. Then I get called by a guy that can’t buy a pair of pants, I get called names?”
Trump was making a crack at the fact that Krauthammer is paralyzed from the waist down.
Just a few weeks earlier, Trump had derided Krauthammer as a “loser” who “just sits there."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-mocks-disabled-reporter_56572101e4b072e9d1c1d1c0
