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Carly Fiorina speaks at a Ted Cruz campaign rally in Lafayette, Indiana, on May 1. | AP Photo Trump: Even I would have helped Fiorina up

Carly Fiorina went down hard when she fell Sunday during a Ted Cruz event. But unlike the Texas senator, who didn’t come to the aid of his vice presidential pick, Donald Trump would have helped her up.

“Carly’s perfectly nice,” Trump said Monday during a rally in Carmel, Indiana. “By the way, she fell off the stage the other day. Did anybody see that? And Cruz didn’t do anything. Even I would have helped her, OK?”

It’s true, insisted Trump, who noted that his staff showed him the video before he kicked off his rally. Video of the incident shows Fiorina abruptly descending after introducing Cruz at a campaign event in Lafayette, Indiana, and Heidi Cruz quickly coming to help her up.

“They just showed it to me coming in. I said, ‘No, I didn’t see it.’ They just showed it to me and I said, ‘Wow, that’s really cruel,’” Trump said. “She fell off — she just went down. She went down a long way, right?”

Ted Cruz, however, continued engaging supporters as his wife helped Fiorina to her feet, although the incident occurred in front of him. In Trump’s summation, it was a weird situation.

“She went down right in front of him and he was talking,” Trump said. “He kept talking. He didn’t even look like — that was a weird deal. Man. And then they were both talking. She was talking from the back and he was talking from there. They’re both talking. No, it was weird.”