Rachel Casey, 29, had eggs and other food products hurled at her outside of a rally in San Jose. | AP Photo Pelted Trump supporter: 'Maybe I egged them on'

The Donald Trump supporter who had egg on her face after walking into a crowd of anti-Trump protesters admitted Wednesday that she may have egged them on.

“Yeah, maybe I egged them on. But I was just speaking up for myself,” Rachel Casey told Inside Edition’s Jim Moret in an interview set to air Wednesday.


Casey, 29, a bodybuilder and physical therapist, had eggs and other food products hurled at her outside of a rally in San Jose.

According to cellphone video she took, she taunted the protesters by returning the middle-finger gesture to a man wearing a sombrero. Protesters responded to Casey, who was wearing a pro-Trump T-shirt and walked into a mob of protesters, by tossing food at her. One woman sporting a Golden State Warriors jersey hit her with an anti-Trump sign.

Though she admitted to provoking the protesters, Casey told Inside Edition that the protesters were to blame.

“They started it with me,” she said. “I stood up for myself like any other American would.”

Casey called her experience “unreal” but added that she was thankful the violence didn’t intensify.

“To be a victim of eggs and tomatoes — I mean, thank God it wasn’t bricks and rocks,” she said. “I mean, unreal.”

The Trump campaign reached out to her following the encounter, inviting her to appear onstage with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee at future rallies.