{"id":105421,"date":"2015-11-27T09:59:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T07:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=105421"},"modified":"2015-11-27T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T07:59:45","slug":"watch-donald-trump-mocks-disabled-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/105421\/watch-donald-trump-mocks-disabled-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Donald Trump mocks disabled man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US business magnate and presidential candidate Donald Trump has reportedly mocked disabled journalist, Serge Kovaleski.<\/p>\n<p>Trump used an article by Kovaleski to back up his claims that &#8220;thousands&#8221; of Muslim in the US celebrated the 11 September attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Kovaleski however, told CNN he did &#8220;not recall anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds of people celebrating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech at a rally in South Carolina on Tuesday, Trump appeared to mimic the movements of a disabled person as he referenced Kovaleski&#8217;s stataemnts.<\/p>\n<p>Kovaleski suffers from a congenital joint condition called arthrogryposis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now the poor guy, you gotta see this guy,&#8221; Trump said, while waving his arms around in a jerky, odd motion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uhh I don&#8217;t know what I said. Uhh I don&#8217;t remember. He&#8217;s going like &#8216;I don&#8217;t remember. Maybe that&#8217;s what I said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump denied the allegations in a statement on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PX9reO3QnUA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I do not know the reporter for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\">@nytimes<\/a>, or what he looks like. I was showing a person groveling to take back a statement made long ago!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/669994161911779329\">November 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Watch videos<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/104983\/watch-boy-breaks-rubiks-cube-world-record\/\">Watch: Boy smashes Rubik\u2019s Cube world record<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/104715\/watch-zuma-finds-parliament-very-funny-again\/\">Watch: Zuma finds Parliament very funny, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/103899\/watch-how-trevor-noah-almost-got-deported-from-america\/\">Watch: How Trevor Noah almost got deported from America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US business magnate and presidential candidate Donald Trump has reportedly mocked disabled journalist, Serge Kovaleski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":105427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10849,26],"class_list":["post-105421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-donald-trump","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105429,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105421\/revisions\/105429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}