Trump responded with derision, mimicking Leeds and dismissing her story. “I was with Trump in 1980. I was sitting with him on an airplane and he went after me on the plane,” the Republican presidential nominee said, using the voice he often deploys to mock people.
.. In responding to his accusers with such malice and nothing tangible to discredit their allegations, Trump is further ceding the moral high ground to his opponent and recklessly imperiling Republican candidates down the ballot.
.. These are lies being pushed by the media and the Clinton campaign to try and keep their grip on our country,” Trump argued. “They are all false. They’re totally invented fiction. All 100 percent totally and completely fabricated. Never met this person, these people. I don’t know who they are.”
.. “When you looked at that horrible woman last night, you said ‘I don’t think so,’” Trump told his supporters. “I don’t think so. Whoever she is, wherever she comes from, the stories are total fiction. They are 100 percent made up. They never happened. They never would happen. I don’t think it happened with very many people, but they certainly aren’t gonna happen with me.”
.. Incredulous over his current plight, Trump posed a rhetorical question to his supporters—or, perhaps, it was a suggestion to the media he claims is so biased against him—about President Obama, who lashed the GOP nominee in another speech Friday morning and, in Trump’s view, has not been subjected to the same level of media scrutiny as himself.
“Why doesn’t some woman say what they say about me about him?” Trump said.
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Trump blasted for mocking reporter with disability
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumpfaced heavy criticism this week for his comments and apparent mocking of a reporter for the New York Times who is disabled.
Referring to Serge Kovaleski while on the campaign trail in South Carolina, Trump told a rally: “You’ve got to see this guy.” He then ridiculed Kovaleski’s appearance by bending his wrists and jerking his arms around.
Trump draws scornful rebuke for mocking reporter with disability
Businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump is under fire for mocking a New York Times reporter with a congenital joint condition during a campaign rally in South Carolina this week, drawing a scornful rebuke from the reporter and others who called Trump’s actions “despicable.”
.. 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.
The gesture was all the more personal because Kovaleski frequently 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.
Marco Rubio May Have Finally Discovered the Anti-Trump Kryptonite
As Josh Marshall and others have pointed out, Trump’s dominance is not about ideas or argument or, yes, even “anger.” It’s about sheer dominance itself. He is strong. The others are weak. He is a winner. They are pathetic losers. It’s a pro-wrestling pre-match chest-pounding contest. .. That is why the only possibly effective response is the one Marco Rubio introduced on Thursday night—and has really had fun with since. Rubio has found what could be Trump’s kryptonite, the substance that might conceivably peel his supporters away from him.That substance is ridicule.