Donald Trump told a rally today that he wouldn’t mind if someone shot through the media section at his rally, the latest violent rhetoric he has used on the campaign trail in the final days before the election.
Trump’s attacks on the media are routine, but at the Lititz, PA event, Trump was talking about the bullet proof glass that now surrounds him at outdoor events since the assassination attempt on his life in July. “I have this piece of glass here,” Trump said. “But all we have really over here is the fake news, right?
And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much. I don’t mind.” Some in the crowd cheered.
Campaign communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement that Trump was talking “about protective glass placement has nothing to do with the Media being harmed, or anything else.
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