Mocks disabled reporter while defending his 9/11 “thousands cheering” lie

At a late-November 2015 rally in South Carolina, Trump tried to discredit reporting that undercut his false claim that “thousands and thousands” of people in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks by singling out New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a congenital joint condition, and flailing his arms while saying “you’ve got to see this guy” and misquoting Kovaleski’s work—an onstage performance widely condemned as mocking a disabled journalist.

"you’ve got to see this guy" — Rally in South Carolina (late November 2015) while flailing his arms and misquoting Serge Kovaleski