Trump's team defends the president on Twitter after his fan shouted at migrants to "shoot" at the border

The Trump campaign ran Wednesday night to try to clarify the president's reaction to a sympathizer who was shouting that immigrants arriving in the United States should be shot dead.

President Donald Trump was on a riff about border control officers working to prevent migrants from crossing the border while he was speaking at his Wednesday night rally in Panama City Beach , in Florida.

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"You have hundreds and hundreds of people and two or three border security officers who are brave and great. And do not forget, we do not leave them and we can not let them use weapons. We can not in other countries do it. We can not I would never do that. But how do you stop these people? "Said the president.

When the president asked this question, a participant in the crowd shouted "shoot them".

The President paused and instead of condemning the remark, he said, "Only in the hands, you can get away with this statement."

The crowd burst with joy and burst out laughing – after another brief pause, Trump repeated, "Only in the panhandle."

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In the aftermath of the president's reaction to the rally participant's blast, the Trump campaign aimed to reverse the conversation on Twitter and focus on the president's statement denouncing the use of arms by border officials .

Countryside Deputy Director of Communication and Rapid Response, Matt Wolking responded to several Twitter users who were discussing the incident, sending a transcript that partly excluded the president's reaction to the attack. He tweeted that Trump had declared that he "would never let" border security use weapons like "other countries do it".