

Instead, he asked his mother to take him to a Trump rally so he could protest, “’I wanted to go because Donald J. JJ heard what Trump said, and wasn’t going to let it slide. Yet another interesting chapter to this story occurred when JJ Holmes, age 12, did something about the comments. That’s it, and that’s something we applaud him for, he dealt with the negative press head-on. He’s taking a stand against someone who treated him badly. Why would an acclaimed journalist like Kovaleski want to do that? He’s not grandstanding. Now, the part about grandstanding goes back to the post we shared about Perez Hilton’s website talking about using disability to get money. 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.’” About a dozen times, so they have met.

‘I’ve talked to him at press conferences. Here is a follow-up quote from the reporter himself, “’I’ve interviewed him in his office,’ he said. One on the vanity of the reporter, one on him using his disability to “grandstand,” and another on the future of newspapers.įirst, let’s talk a bit about whether or not Trump met Kovaleski. ‘He should stop using his disability to grandstand and get back to reporting for a newspaper that is rapidly going down the tubes.’” Trump has deflected from the issue using a few new attacks. Then, Trump followed up with this, “’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,’ he said, CNN reported. So I started imitating somebody - I didn’t speak to the guy - somebody that was groveling.’” It Gets Worse I didn’t know it, I didn’t know it at all. Instead, this was Trump’s response, “’I didn’t know what he looked like. So now that you’ve seen the video, you think an apology would be in order, right? That won’t be happening.

If you type “Kovaleski” into Google, the first thing that pops up is “Kovaleski and Trump.” Don’t know the scandal we’re talking about? CNN does a pretty succinct job of explaining it. Sadly, these awesome things about Kovaleski have been a bit overshadowed by Trump’s impersonation of him.
