Trump Mocks Disabled Reporter

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^ You obviously didn't look at the material at the link, and instead just chose to repeat the lie.

Consider yourself extremely gullible.

There is no media lie in this case. Trump was ridiculing the reporter's disability. What else was he possibly doing?

Trump was ridiculing the reporter for being a hack for not standing by his story(about the Muslims that cheered on 9/11) not because he is disabled. Can people with a disability be ridiculed without it necessarily 100% being about their disability? They are people just like the rest of us, this guy is not some martyr because Trump mentioned him one time for his political bias.

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^^ You obviously didn't look at the material at the link, and instead just chose to repeat the lie.

Consider yourself extremely gullible.

For you both -
Trump held his arms in a specific manner ridiculing the journalist's particular disability. I'll ask again: why else would he be holding his arms like that, except to ridicule that man's disability?

a person sees what he wants to see, and doesn't see what he doesn't want to see.

You obviously didn't look at the material at the link, and instead just chose to repeat the lie.

Consider yourself extremely gullible.

As all the people repeating the deliberate media lie in this thread demonstrate.

You're the one who is gullible for supporting Trump.

The linked video hid the reporter's hands and any time the uploader is questioned she simply lashes out with ad hominems and other irrelevancies...

I read the Catholic article. It didn't offer anything new.


If Trump wanted to mock him for being a hack than that's what he should have done. And it would have been fair. But instead Trump mocked his disability. This is not a trend I want to see taking off.

I did read it, and I reread it. Who cares if the reporter in question didn't move spasmodically? The fact remains, Trump mimicked the man's disability just the same. There's no way you can get around that fact. Pray tell what Trump was doing if he wasn't ridiculing the man by holding his arms in the same fashion?
As for Trump's bullsh*t story of seeing thousands of Muslim Americans celebrating the 9/11 attack - the reporter in question had mentioned how there were some individuals who had been questioned for allegedly throwing tailgate parties over the attack. I don't recall any mention of thousands of people supposedly doing such a thing, or even that they were Muslims.

I see Trump the Dump as nothing but a greedy bigot and the epitome of a master manipulator. I mean seriously how is he able to get so many people to actually support his absurd views when he's ugly, rude, and openly racist and sexist? Plus why do people believe that such a greedy money-obsessed individual would actually care about solving other people's financial problems? Greedy people only care about their own wealth just sayin!

If he actually becomes president of the U.S. I'm sure people are going to try to blame him for all our problems but I think the fact that Americans would actually consider somebody like him to be a potential leader says more about us than it does him. Western Civilization is so crumbling...

How was he mocking the reporter? The guy doesn't shake around or talk like that, he was making fun of him trying to disown his own reporting from 9/11. The reporter in question I doubt could even do the movement Trump did.

Did you not see the way Trump was posing his arms while imitating the reporter? That is what's got the rest of us pissed off. And so what if the reporter doesn't shake like that? Trump was throwing that insult on top of the man's lack of arm movement just to be dickish. To say that Trump wasn't really insulting this guy over his lack of shaking is just a diversion from how Trump was demeaning him.

I think that is really stretching it, first Trump is a dick because he's apparently mimicking and making fun of a hack reporter but when it turns out that the reporter is actually very restricted in movement in his arms and speaks in a normal voice but now he's a dick because he's making fun of the reporter because he can't do those things? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, people make too much out of a screen capture of his arms in a certain position. I took it as him making fun of his indecisiveness and not sticking by his reporting in light of the current political wins.