Six years ago, Donald Trump dropped “11th Hour” host Ali Velshi’s name at several campaign rallies as an example of the so-called “fake news media” getting what the president thought he deserved: a taste of “law and order.”
In May 2020, while covering the Minneapolis protests that arose in response to the murder of George Floyd, MSNBC’s live coverage caught Velshi being struck in the knee by one of the rubber bullets police fired into the crowd.