'THAT IDIOT'
Trump AGAIN mocks reporter Ali Velshi and says it was a ‘beautiful sight’ to see him hit by rubber bullet
DONALD Trump has again mocked reporter Ali Velshi and said it was a "beautiful sight" to see him hit by a rubber bullet.
singled out the journalist during his Moon Township, , rally on Tuesday.
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Trump incorrectly said that Velshi worked for and that he was struck by a gas canister, but the MSNBC reporter was actually hit by a rubber bullet in June while covering the protests in .
"Remember that beautiful sight? The street was a mess. That idiot reporter from CNN got hit with a canister of tear gas. And he went down. 'I've been hit. I've been hit.' He's been hit," the president jeered.
He continued: "Sometimes they grab. They grab one guy. 'I'm a reporter. I'm a reporter.' Get out of here. They threw him aside like he was a little bag of popcorn. Honestly, when you watch the crap that we have all had to take so long. When you see it, it is actually a beautiful sight."
This is the second time in one week that Trump has ripped into the journalist.
The president first mocked the incident at a rally last week in Bemidji, .
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"I remember this guy Velshi. He got hit on the knee with a canister of tear gas and he went down. He was down. 'My knee, my knee'," he said.
"These guys didn't care. They moved him aside and they just walked right through. It was like the most beautiful thing. It's called law and order."
Following the comments, Velshi took to to confront Trump directly.
"So, @realDonaldTrump, you call my getting hit by authorities in Minneapolis on 5/30/20 (by a rubber bullet, btw, not a tear gas cannister) a "beautiful thing" called "law and order". What law did I break while covering an entirely peaceful (yes, entirely peaceful) march?"
The reporter also retweeted several critical articles of the president's comments following the Tuesday rally.
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Velshi captioned two of the articles he tweeted "Why is a journalist getting shot 'a beautiful thing' to Trump?" and "Trump: Reporters Covering Protests Deserve to be Attacked."
MSNBC previously released a statement regarding Trump's remarks.
"Freedom of the press is a pillar of our democracy... When the president mocks a journalist for the injury he sustained while putting himself in harm’s way to inform the public, he endangers thousands of other journalists and undermines our freedoms," it read.
MSNBC reporter Ali Velshi get hit with a rubber bullet fired by the police while reporting on US protests
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