Donald Trump may have taken his tendency to make controversial statements and gestures during political speeches a but too far after mocking a New York Times reporter who is physically handicapped.

Trump has come under fire for mocking the reporter, Serge Kovaleski, who suffers from a chronic condition called anthrogryposis that affects his ability to move his arms. Trump attacked Kovaleski during a speech where he attempted to defend his since debunked claims that people in New Jersey were cheering as they saw the Twin Towers fall back on 9/11.

Trump claimed that he saw "thousands" of Arabs celebrating in New Jersey after the attacks, and then said he based the statements on an article Kovaleski wrote for the Washington Post fourteen years ago, though Kovaleski has since spoken up and said he wrote reports of "a number of people...allegedly" celebrating, and said he never saw people doing such and didn't know where Trump got his figure in the thousands from.

Now, Trump has turned his sights to Kovaleski, and mocked the reporter Wednesday in a campaign stop in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, doing an impression of him that saw him putting on a fake voice and flailing his arms.

Since then, Trump has been receiving backlash for his actions, though he has taken to his own Twitter account to further blast the New York Times itself for not supporting his campaign.

In a statement posted on his account on Thanksgiving Day, Trump said he did not intend to make fun of Kovaleski because he was unaware of his condition, but blasted the paper he writes for as being biased against him and needing to focus more on saving itself than trying to blast his campaign.

"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. The New York Times has become more and more irrelevant and rapidly becoming a total joke-sad!" he said in his statement.

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