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At a rally in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Nov. 24, 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks about New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski . (Reuters) 
  
 At a rally in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Nov. 24, 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks about New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski . (Reuters) 
  
 A day after he was widely rebuked for mocking a reporter with a physical disability, business mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump on Thursday denied that he had done so and accused the reporter of “using his disability to grandstand.” 
  
 Trump also demanded an apology from the New York Times, the reporter’s employer, which earlier in the week issued a statement condemning Trump for ridiculing “the appearance of one of our reporters.” 
  
 The incident occurred Tuesday at a rally in South Carolina, as Trump was defending his recent claim that he had witnessed thousands of Muslims cheering in New Jersey on Sept. 11, 2001, as the World Trade Center towers collapsed. On stage, Trump berated Times investigative reporter Serge Kovaleski for his recent recollection of an article he wrote a few days after the attacks, which Trump has been citing to defend his claim. 
  
 Trump appeared to mock Kovaleski’s physical condition; the reporter has arthrogryposis, which visibly limits flexibility in his arms. 
  
 “Now, the poor guy — you’ve got to see this guy, ‘Ah, I don’t know what I said! I don’t remember!’ ” Trump said as he jerked his arms in front of his body. 
  
 Trump’s assertions about Muslims celebrating in 2001 have been fact-checked and discredited by law enforcement and government officials who were in New Jersey in the days and weeks after the terrorist attacks. 
  
 Trump has defended his recollections by citing a 2001 article by Kovaleski, who worked for The Washington Post at the time and wrote that “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 on the other side of the river.” 
  
 Those allegations were never corroborated but have persisted in online rumors in the 14 years since the attacks. In an interview on CNN this week, Kovaleski said he did not recall “anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds, of people celebrating.” 
  
 That is the statement that apparently drew Trump’s ire on Tuesday. 
  
 “The sad part about it is, it didn’t in the slightest bit jar or surprise me that Donald Trump would do something this low-rent, given his track record,” said Kovaleski, who frequently covered Trump while reporting for the New York Daily News between 1987 and 1993. 
  
 In a statement Thursday, Trump adamantly denied that his comments or gestures were meant to mock Kovaleski. He also denied remembering Kovaleski at all — “despite having one of the all-time great memories.” 
  
 “Kovaleski must think a lot of himself if he thinks I remember him from decades ago — if I ever met him at all, which I doubt I did,” Trump said. “He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes.” 
  
 Serge Kovaleski on April 21, 2010, in New York. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) 
  
 Kovaleski said in an interview this week that he’s sure Trump remembers him — and his disability. Trump indicated as much himself in the speech Tuesday, when he said, before he began an apparent impersonation with a series of jerking arm movements, that the article had been “written by a nice reporter.” 
  
 In his statement Thursday, Trump said: “I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovalski [sic] is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence. I don’t know if he is J.J. Watt or Muhammad Ali in his prime — or somebody of less athletic or physical ability. Despite having one of the all-time great memories I certainly do not remember him.” 
  
 Trump added that he thought Kovaleski’s recollections about his 2001 article “seemed like (again without knowing what he looks like) he was groveling and searching for a way out from what he wrote many years before.” 
  
 In Kovaleski’s comments to CNN and other news organizations, the reporter pointed out that there were never any reports of thousands or even hundreds of Muslims celebrating, as Trump has claimed to have witnessed. Kovaleski has not contradicted the 14-year-old article. 
  
 Kovaleski’s friends and colleagues took to social media this week to excoriate Trump. 
  
 “The measure of men. Know this: Serge Kovaleski, aka @sergenyt, is a journalistic rock star and one great colleague,” Times reporter Dan Barry wrote on Twitter. 
  
 “@sergenyt is one of the best reporters — and best people— I know. This is despicable,” ESPN reporter and author Don Van Natta Jr. wrote. 
  
 Trump took specific aim at the Times in his statement Thursday. 
  
 “They should focus on the survival of their newspaper and not on dishonest and very bad reporting about me,” he said. “The New York Times has become more and more irrelevant and rapidly becoming a total joke — sad!” 
  
 A Times representative declined Thursday to add to the paper’s earlier statement. ||||| Donald Trump has accused a New York Times reporter of “grandstanding about his disability” as he denied mocking the journalist’s condition during a campaign speech. 
  
 Trump escalated his attack on reporter Serge Kovaleski and demanded an apology from his paper after it accused the Republican frontrunner of ridiculing Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that affects joint movement. 
  
 “I have no idea who this reporter, Serge Kovalski [sic], is, what he looks like or his level of intelligence,” Trump said in a statement issued by his campaign on Thursday afternoon. 
  
 “Despite having one of the all-time great memories, I certainly do not remember him. 
  
 “I don’t know if he is [Houston Texans defensive end] JJ Watt or Muhammad Ali in his prime – or somebody of less athletic ability.” 
  
 In a speech to supporters on Tuesday night, Trump derided Kovaleski, who has disputed Trump’s claim that he saw “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrate the 9/11 attacks – while flailing and twisting his arms. 
  
 Kovaleski worked for the Washington Post at the time of the 9/11 attacks and was one of the authors of an article that Trump has cited in support of his claim. The Washington Post has since added a disclaimer that fact-checks Trump’s claim. 
  
 In his Thursday statement, Trump said: “I know nothing about [Kovaleski] other than I have great respect for the way he wrote the story on 18 September 2001, and in particular the paragraph talking about Muslims and tailgate parties taking place in New Jersey.” 
  
  
  
 Trump later added to his statement, asking the paper to apologise to him for accusing him of mocking Kovaleski. He also reinforced his criticism of the Times in light of its business decisions and fortunes in terms of sales and readership. 
  
 “Serge Kovaleski must think a lot of himself if he thinks I remember him from decades ago – if I ever met him at all, which I doubt I did,” Trump said. “He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes.” 
  
 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) I do not know the reporter for the @nytimes, or what he looks like. I was showing a person groveling to take back a statement made long ago! 
  
 Kovaleski covered Trump’s businesses as a reporter for the New York Daily News in the late 1980s and 1990s, and has met him several times. 
  
 “Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years,” Kovaleski told the Times on Thursday. “I’ve interviewed him in his office. I’ve talked to him at press conferences. 
  
 “All in all, I would say around a dozen times I’ve interacted with him as a reporter while I was at the Daily News.” 
  
 Earlier this week, Kovaleski said he did not recall Trump’s account of what happened in Jersey City on 9/11. 
  
 “We did a lot of shoe leather reporting in and around Jersey City and talked to a lot of residents and officials for the broader story,” Kovaleski said on CNN. “Much of that has, indeed, faded from memory. 
  
 “I do not recall anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds, of people celebrating. That was not the case, as best as I can remember.” 
  
 At the Tuesday rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Trump ridiculed Kovaleski, telling supporters: “Now the poor guy. You ought to see the guy: ‘Err, I don’t know what I said. I don’t remember.’” 
  
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 As he spoke, Trump pulled his arms up to his chest and flailed about in what looked like an imitation of the journalist’s disability. 
  
 In his Thursday statement, Trump said he had not been aware of the journalist’s disability and “merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago”. 
  
 Kovaleski told the Washington Post: “The sad part about it is, it didn’t in the slightest bit jar or surprise me that Donald Trump would do something this low-rent, given his track record.” 
  
 A spokesperson for the New York Times told Politico: “We think it’s outrageous that he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters.” 
  
  
  
 The controversy is the latest in a Trump campaign that has included a reference to Mexicans being “rapists”; an insinuation that Fox News host Megyn Kelly was particularly tough in her line of questioning in the first Republican debate because she was menstruating; and the removal of Univision journalist Jorge Ramos from a press conference after he pressed Trump on his immigration platform. 
  
  
  
 Despite the seemingly unending stream of controversies, which pundits agree would have derailed most candidates by now, Trump has maintained his standing at the top of the Republican polls, confounding the political establishment. 
  
 “This isn’t about shutting off Mr Trump’s bullhorn,” the New York Times editorial board wrote earlier this week. “His right to spew nonsense is protected by the Constitution, but the public doesn’t need to swallow it. 
  
 “History teaches that failing to hold a demagogue to account is a dangerous act. It’s no easy task for journalists to interrupt Mr Trump with the facts, but it’s an important one.” 
  
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On Thanksgiving, Donald Trump didn't take any time off from being Donald Trump. He issued a statement denying that he had mocked the disability of New York Times reporter Serge Kovalevski—and accused Kovalevski of "using his disability to grandstand," the Guardian reports. Kovalevski, who has a congenital joint condition that affects arm movement, had angered Trump by saying he didn't recall seeing thousands of Americans celebrating on 9/11, the Washington Post reports. Trump had been using a line from a 2001 Post article by Kovalevski to back up his claim that he saw such celebrations on TV news at the time. Kovalevski met Trump several times while covering his businesses for the New York Daily News from 1987 to 1993, the Guardian notes, but Trump says that despite having "the world's greatest memory," he doesn't recall meeting him. He "must think a lot of himself if he thinks I remember him from decades ago—if I ever met him at all, which I doubt I did," Trump said. "He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a paper that is rapidly going down the tubes." He tweeted that the arm movements he made after saying, "You ought to see the guy" was his way of showing "a person groveling to take back a statement made long ago." Trump also tweeted that the "failing" NYT should focus on balanced reporting instead of "boring" Trump "hit jobs."