Coulter Says Trump was ‘Doing a Standard Retard,’ Not Mocking Disabled Reporter
Ann Coulter is keeping up her In Trump We Trust book tour, and when she’s not giving Donald Trump rave reviews, she’s using it to go up to bat for him over his most controversial moments.
During the conservative columnist’s appearance on Wednesday’s With All Due Respect, John Heilemann asked Coulter about the passage in her book concerning the time Trump came under fire for apparently making fun of reporter Serge Kovaleski during one of his rallies. Coulter wrote in her book that Trump “was doing a standard retard, waving his arms and sounding stupid,” instead of making fun of Kovaleski’s physical disability, and Heilemann grilled her on whether that kind of characterization is truly a legitimate excuse.
Coulter brought up her experience at the Rob Lowe roast last weekend as she said that people “need develop a little thicker skin” over insulting words. Of course, this isn’t the first time Coulter brusquely responded to critics upset by her casual use of the word “retard.”
Coulter insisted that Trump wasn’t mocking Kovaleski’s condition, and she pointed to her new column, in which she argued that Trump has done similar motions and antics to make fun of political rivals at other rallies. Coulter said that the whole controversy was born from a “despicable media lie” because news agencies wouldn’t show clips from those incidents to compare with the Kovaleski bit.
Coulter’s piece cites several conservative outlets with videos of Trump mocking his political opponents. Several of them use the same kind of open-mouthed, arm-waving antics Trump used during the Kovaleski bit, but as The Washington Post noted, it was only during his rip on the reporter when Trump acted like he was having a spasm, and curling his wrist in a manner resemblant of Arthrogryposis.
Watch above, via MSNBC.
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