Serge F. Kovaleski

Serge F. Kovaleski is an investigative reporter at The New York Times.[1] He was born in Cape Town, South Africa,[1] and graduated in 1984 from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, having majored in philosophy.[2] He contributed to reporting that won The New York Times a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.[2][3][4]

He has also worked for The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Money magazine and The Miami News.[1]

Conflict with Donald Trump

In November 2015, Donald Trump made the following remarks when stating that Kovaleski was backing away from what he wrote in an article for The Washington Post a few days after the September 11 attacks:

"Now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy", Mr. Trump said, before jerking his arms around and holding his right hand at an angle. "'Ah, I don't know what I said! I don't remember!'"[5]

Controversy was generated over the perception that Trump was mocking Kovaleski's physical condition, as Kovaleski has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that involves contraction of the joints in his body and gives him a distinctive appearance. Trump later stated and said that he could not have been mocking Kovaleski's disability[5] because he did not know what Kovaleski looked like. Kovaleski responded by that he had been on a first-name basis with Trump and had had perhaps a dozen face-to-face encounters with him, including interviews and press conferences, while reporting on Trump's career nearly 30 years previous.[5][6] Trump supporters have pointed to videos of Trump employing "the same, flailing mannerisms and goofy speech ... when making fun of himself during an interview with Larry King in 2005; when imitating a bank president in October [2015]; and when mocking an Army general at the same November speech in which he made the original Kovaleski comments."[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Serge F. Kovaleski". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  2. 1 2 "Serge Kovaleski ('84) earns Pulitzer Prize". College of William and Mary. May 28, 2009. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  3. ↑ "The Pulitzer Prizes: Spitzer Wrestles Over Response, Paralyzing Albany: Wife Said to Urge Fighting On". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2009. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  4. ↑ Kovaleski, Serge F.; Urbina, Ian (March 13, 2008). "The Pulitzer Prizes: The Young Woman in Question, 22 and Worried About the Rent". The New York Times]] (republished by The Pulitzer Prizes for 2009 award recognition). Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  5. 1 2 3 "Donald Trump Says His Mocking of New York Times Reporter Was Misread". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  6. ↑ Jose A. DelReal (November 26, 2015). "Trump draws scornful rebuke for mocking reporter with disability". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  7. ↑ "Did Trump really mock reporter's disability? Videos could back him up". Fox News. 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
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