The video evidence keeps coming in and at this point it is overwhelming!
We are now going to list all of the videos below in chronological order with dates. Taken together, these videos prove two things:
First, Donald Trump’s impression of a flustered New York Times reporter is no different than his impressions of various other flustered people (including himself), none of whom are disabled. This is verified because at least two of these impersonations came before his impersonation of the reporter and another happened at the same rally. It appears this is simply the way Donald Trump has always impersonated someone who is flustered or frustrated.
Second, Trump could not have been trying to imitate the New York Times reporter’s disability, because the reporter has no such spastic disability. Instead, the reporter has a condition which prohibits movement in his arm so that it has to be held fixed and close to his chest with his wrist bent in a permanently fixed position. The first impersonation we found took place on May 17, 2005, a good sixteen years before Trump impersonated a flustered New York Times reporter:
As you can see, Trump has an open mouth and both wrists are flexed downward as he impersonated a flustered version of himself forced to go on a hypothetical vacation. The full clip can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4XfyYFa9yo The clip in question begins around the 8 minute mark.
The next video was brought to our attention by a Catholics 4 Trump reader named Noel who linked to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFO9ww1xMqo originally posted to YouTube by All Things Trump on July 1, 2016.
We cleaned up the quality of the video and added slow motion in the version below:
As you can see, Trump once again opens his mouth, flexes his right wrist downward, and shakes it as he imitates a flustered bank president afraid of regulations. This took place at a rally in Norfolk, VA on October 31, 2015, a full twenty five days before Trump would impersonate a flustered New York Times reporter. The full speech can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJljz-Adko The clip in question begins at the 1 hour 7 minute mark.
The following video was first put together by Angie Grover on YouTube. It shows that Trump impersonated a flustered general at the same November 25, 2015 rally he impersonated the New York Times reporter. Trump’s impersonation of the general includes similar loose wrist and hand motions and an open mouth. Grover also includes footage of the very still, recollected, and decidedly non-spastic New York Times reporter and, of course, footage of Trump impersonating him flustered and backpedaling at the very same rally:
The full video of the non-spastic New York Times reporter that the media hid from you while leading you to believe Trump mocked his disability can be seen here:
https://youtu.be/ydGOPzW227E
Finally, at a rally in Charleston, SC on February 19, 2016, Trump impersonated a flustered Ted Cruz with almost the exact same open mouth and hand movements as he did when impersonating the reporter. This was well after the media faux outrage was over, and thus. Trump had little reason to manufacture this impression. This is corroborated by the videos which show Trump making similar impressions years before. This clip was posted by YouTube user orlared on February 24, 2016, just a few days after it happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4604reEqk0&spfreload=10
What does all of this prove? Primarily that despite the media’s best efforts to mislead and deceive us the truth still came out. Why? Because of the people Andrew Breitbart called citizen journalists. People like yourselves, Angie Grover, orlared, and All Things Trump. People who act as our eyes and ears to report the things the media does not want you to see. In short, we as conservatives must do their job for them and hold them accountable leading up to this election. For if we all don’t do everything we possibly can to stop the media’s coronation of Hillary Clinton, we won’t have a country left for any of our efforts to matter.