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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