CNN Host Confronts Trump Spox: How Can He Say No One Has Been Hurt When Video Shows Otherwise?

The national spokesperson for Donald Trump was pressed Monday afternoon on CNN over the campaign's claim that no one has been injured at its rallies, despite video suggesting otherwise.

"How can Trump campaign deny that anyone has been hurt?" host Jake Tapper asked Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson.

Pierson replied by claiming that "the media does not show what happens prior to these events."

"Where you do have these Black Lives Matter protesters out there ... they go out to these trump rallies and start swinging and kicking, they throw themselves on the ground, start throwing themselves into people, and then expect to not be pushed off of them? That’s what you see happening," she claimed. "Unfortunately the media does not want to show that part."

It was not clear exactly which instance Pierson was referring to. She may have been recalling a rally in Las Vegas last month when Trump said a man was “throwing punches,” although a security official told Politico that the candidate was “over-exaggerating” the scenario. Multiple other South Point security personnel confirmed that the protester had not thrown any punches.

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