Former President Donald Trump is engaging in damage control after appearing to advocate violence against journalists.

During a campaign rally on Sunday in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Trump made comments suggesting he would not mind if members of the press were killed.

While complaining about the lack of protective glass around him and how it left open the possibility of a sniper attack, Trump pointed to the press pen in front of him and referred to reporters as “my glass.” He then explained that someone would have to cut through the “fake news” to reach him.

“I have this pane of glass here, but all we really have here is the fake news. And to get me, someone would have to shoot through the fake news. And that doesn't bother me so much,” he said at the event, just two days before Election Day.

Trump joked that such a shooting could break out “any minute.”

“You are my glass. See? These people are my glass,” he said, pointing to the press.

When asked by ABC News about the remark, the campaign's national press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Trump, saying, “Obviously he was joking.”

Leavitt called the question “exhausting” and accused the media of “picking apart every single word Donald Trump says when the majority of his speeches focus on the issues Americans care about.”

Campaign spokesman Steven Cheung also responded to the comment, falsely claiming that Trump had “nothing to do with harming the media.”

“There can be no other interpretation of what was said. He actually cared about their well-being, much more than his own,” Cheung said.

Cheung falsely claimed that Trump had actually “claimed that the media was in danger” and that they “should have had a glass shield too.”

However, it is clear in both footage and official transcripts of the event that Trump explicitly stated that he “wouldn't mind” that much if reporters were shot, and he laughed as his supporters cheered his remark.