"Now, the poor guy, you ought to see the guy,”
Trump denied that he was mimicking the NYT reporter Serge Kovaleski.
Trump claimed he didn’t know Kovaleski was handicapped: "I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago. If Mr. Kovaleski is handicapped, I would not know because I do not know what he looks like. If I did know, I would definitely not say anything about his appearance."
Trump then accused the reporter of "using his disability to grandstand."
Trump said he did not know Kovaleski. "I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovalski (cq) is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence. Somebody at the financially failing and totally biased New York Times said that, over the years, I have met Mr. Kovaleski. Despite having one of the all-time great memories I certainly do not remember him."
Serge Kovaleski who had previously worked at the Washington Post and the New York Daily News, had covered Trump many times in New York. “Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years,” Kovaleski was quoted. “I’ve interviewed him in his office.” In total, Kovaleski estimated that he personally dealt with Donald Trump “around a dozen” times when he worked as a writer with the New York Daily News.”
Andrew Gluck, Kovaleski’s colleague at the Daily News at the time, says he doubts Trump doesn’t remember him. Gluck says the two collaborated on a “rash of stories” about Trump at the time, and that on one occasion, the two men interviewed Trump in person for as long as two hours.
“Trump declared bankruptcy,” Gluck recalled. “We were assigned to cover it. We went over there and spoke with Trump one-on-one….We were on the story day after day for weeks.” Gluck added: “Serge continued covering Trump after that.”
“Serge sat at the desk across from me,” Gluck continued. “I remember him being on the phone with Trump….They would talk about the coverage. They would talk about the story.”
The reporter Donald Trump claims he's never seen before says he spent a whole day with the bombastic billionaire while working for the Daily News — and he's drawn Trump's ire before.
Serge Kovaleski, now a New York Times reporter, said he closely covered Trump's launch of an airline in 1989.
"The following day, when my story ran, Trump was furious," he said. "The story, to the best of my recollection, lead with the fact that the flight left 12 or 18 minutes late on its first voyage even though Trump had run many ads saying the Trump Shuttle would be the most on-time airline in the industry."
"Trump and the guy who was running the Trump Shuttle for him ... called me the day the story ran and Trump started screaming over the speaker phone about what a piece of sh-- the story was,” Kovaleski said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/reporter-donald-trump-mocked-spent-day-mogul-1989-article-1.2448381Trump not only lied about making fun of the reporter's disability, Trump also lied about not knowing who he was or ever having met him.
