Story highlights Trump on Tuesday told a mother during a rally that she could "get that baby out of here"

Trump accused the media of distorting the incident earlier in the week

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) Donald Trump sought to correct the record Friday on his position on babies.

"I don't throw babies out, believe me. I love babies," the Republican presidential nominee proclaimed here, days after he complained about a baby crying during a campaign rally

Trump conceded Friday that he suggested to a mother during a rally in Virginia Tuesday that "if you take that baby outside, it's not so bad."

"You can get that baby out of here," Trump told the mother in the middle of his speech in Virginia after joking that he didn't mind babies crying in the middle of his campaign events.

But Trump on Friday said that while the "whole place laughed" at his Virginia rally, the media twisted his words, with some outlets accusing Trump of ejecting the baby from his rally. The mother of the crying baby was not asked to leave the venue.

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