A photojournalist covering President Donald Trump’s Monday night rally in El Paso, Texas — BBC’s Ron Skeans — was reportedly attacked and shoved to the ground by an unidentified supporter.
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Trump often complains about what he sees as unfair media coverage, and at Monday’s rally directed attention to the press covering the event that led to the predictable boos and chants of “CNN sucks!”
Skeans’ BBC colleague, reporter Gary O’Donoghue, shared video of the attack by the Trump supporter, the details of which are still emerging:
BBC editor Eleanor Montague claimed the “crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy against the media by Trump and other speakers all night”:
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THERE WAS A RUMOR THAT THIS WAS A SET-UP, AND THAT THE ALLEGED ATTACKER WAS A 'TARDO. ALSO, HE ALLEGEDLY HAD THE PRICE TAG ON HIS HAT, MEANING HE *MIGHT* HAVE JUST BOUGHT IT.
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