--- title: Super PAC Ad Slams Donald Trump for Mocking Disability description: The ad shows parents of a daughter with spina bifida who were alarmed by Trump's criticism of a reporter with a disability canonical: https://time.com/4359132/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-disabled-reporter-super-pac-ad/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-06T21:57:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T22:25:33.306Z article:section: Politics og:title: Pro-Clinton Super PAC Ad Slams Trump for Mocking Disabled Reporter og:description: The ad features parents of a daughter with spina bifida og:url: https://time.com/4359132/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-disabled-reporter-super-pac-ad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4b85775bb3724e/698896b3656a3fbbcdbcbd28/donald-trump-003.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pro-Clinton Super PAC Ad Slams Trump for Mocking Disabled Reporter twitter:description: The ad features parents of a daughter with spina bifida twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4b85775bb3724e/698896b3656a3fbbcdbcbd28/donald-trump-003.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC Ad Slams Donald Trump for Mocking Disabled Reporter by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jun 6, 2016 9:57 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a rally in Charleston, W.Va.,on May 5, 2016. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a rally in Charleston, W.Va.,on May 5, 2016.Steve Helber—AP by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jun 6, 2016 9:57 PM UTC A Super PAC backing Hillary Clinton has debuted a new ad hitting Donald Trump for an incident revealing insensitivity toward a disabled person. The ad features Chris and Lauren Glaros of Columbus, Ohio, two parents of a young girl named “Grace” (whose name serves as the title of the ad) who was born with spina bifida. When the Glaros family saw the footage of Donald Trump apparently [mocking the physical affect of a reporter](http://time.com/4127857/donald-trump-disability/) who suffers from a joint condition that impairs the movement of his arms, they say they were shocked. “The children at Grace’s school all know never to mock her. And so for an adult to mock someone with a disability is shocking,” says the mother. The father says that when he saw the incident, “It showed me \[Trump’s\] soul. It showed me his heart. And I didn’t like what I saw.” Many people criticized Trump after the incident occurred in November, but Trump [denied](http://time.com/4128128/donald-trump-kovaleski-journalist-disability/) that he was mocking the reporter. The Super PAC running the ad, [Priorities USA](http://prioritiesusaaction.org/about/), says it is a $20 million buy that will air in major markets in Ohio, Florida, Virginia, New Hampshire, Colorado, Iowa and Nevada. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4359132/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-disabled-reporter-super-pac-ad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4359132/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-disabled-reporter-super-pac-ad/"},"headline":"Pro-Hillary Clinton Super PAC Ad Slams Donald Trump for Mocking Disabled Reporter","datePublished":"2016-06-06T21:57:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T22:25:33.306Z","description":"The ad features parents of a daughter with spina bifida","url":"https://time.com/4359132/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-disabled-reporter-super-pac-ad/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4b85775bb3724e/698896b3656a3fbbcdbcbd28/donald-trump-003.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7e4b85775bb3724e/698896b3656a3fbbcdbcbd28/donald-trump-003.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald TrumpRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a rally in Charleston, W.Va., Thursday, May 5, 2016. 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