A CBS News reporter claimed Sunday that while covering a Donald Trump campaign rally, an attendee accused him of working for the Islamic State terrorist network.
On Twitter, the reporter, Sopan Deb, said he was taking photos of the rally in Reno, Nev., when a Trump supporter confronted him.
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“A Trump supporter just asked me at Reno event if I was taking pictures for ISIS,” Deb said. “When I looked shocked, he said, ‘Yeah, I’m talking to you.'”
Deb said that the man repeated the accusation several more times and that he told the man he was with CBS.
“He said, ‘This is America … be glad that you’re here,'” he said. “I have a couple guesses what he meant by that.”
He said the Trump supporter appeared to be a Vietnam War veteran and began filming him with a smartphone “as if he really thought I was filming for ISIS.”
“This isn’t first time this has happened,” Deb said. “At last month’s rally in Vegas, a man came up to me to say, ‘Go back to Iraq!’ I’ve never been!”
Trump, who is leading the GOP presidential field nationally and in most early primary states, has made confrontations with reporters a recurring element of his campaign.
Some critics have called it “abuse.”
Deb did not return a request for comment, and a CBS spokesperson declined to comment.
