DId you see Trump's latest lie? He mocked a disabled reporter and denied doing so?

TRUTH

Several hours after Trump released his statement, The Times published an article in which Kovaleski reiterated that he and Trump knew each other well because he covered Trump for several years as a reporter at the New York Daily News.

"Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years ... I've interviewed him in his office" Kovaleski said. "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."

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Real-estate mogul Donald Trump released a lengthy, fiery statement Thursday afternoon responding to allegations that he mocked the physical disability of a reporter whom he accused of not standing by a years-old story about the World Trade Center attacks.

"Despite having one of the all-time great memories I certainly do not remember him," the Republican front-runner declared of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski in his statement.

During a Tuesday-night campaign rally, Trump impersonated Kovaleski supposedly retracting a report about the September 11, 2001, attacks. Trump's gestures appeared to many, including The Times and Kovaleski, that he was mocking the reporter's disability, which limits his arm movements.

"We think it's outrageous that he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters," a Times spokeswoman told Politico.

According to The Washington Post, the gestures were "all the more personal because Kovaleski covered Trump while reporting for the New York Daily News between 1987 and 1993, a tumultuous period for Trump in which he struggled through several financial setbacks."

But Trump's lengthy statement insisted he had no knowledge of whether Kovaleski was "Muhammad Ali in his prime --- or somebody of less athletic or physical ability."

"His recent statement, to me, seemed like (again without knowing what he looks like) he was groveling and searching for a way out from what he wrote many years ago before," Trump added. "I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago."

Trump also trashed The Times while demanding an apology:

This is just another example of the dishonest New York Times trying to make a story out of nothing. They should focus on the survival of their newspaper and not on dishonest and very bad reporting about me. The New York Times has become more and more irrelevant and rapidly becoming a total joke — sad!

Several hours after Trump released his statement, The Times published an article in which Kovaleski reiterated that he and Trump knew each other well because he covered Trump for several years as a reporter at the New York Daily News.

"Donald and I were on a first-name basis for years ... I've interviewed him in his office" Kovaleski said. "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."