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That was not the case, as best as I can remember.” Much of that has, indeed, faded from memory … I do not recall anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds, of people celebrating. On Tuesday, after Trump’s supporters began citing the article as evidence for the candidate’s claim, Kovaleski told CNN, “We did a lot of shoe leather reporting in and around Jersey City and talked to a lot of residents and officials for the broader story. Trump also slammed the Times as “financially failing, totally biased” and urged the paper to “focus on the survival of their newspaper and not on dishonest and very bad reporting about me.” Kovaleski is handicapped, I would not know because I do not know what he looks like.”įurther, Trump continued to defend his claim that the September 11 attacks were celebrated by Muslims in New Jersey, citing phone calls and tweets he received confirming his version of events. “In my recent speech before 10,000 people in Myrtle Beach, SC, I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago,” Trump said in his statement. If Trump had ever met the reporter, the statement read, then the candidate had no memory of it, “despite having one of the all-time great memories.” Trump responded to the Times’s statement Thursday, tweeting out a lengthy statement of his own denying having ever met Kovaleski or being aware of his medical condition.