"I didn't know what was going on," Skeans told the BBC.
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According to footage of the incident, he began shoving multiple people, including BBC cameraman Ron Skeans.
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Ms Montague said the protester had attacked other news crews but Mr Skeans "got the brunt of it".
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Trump saw the incident and gave Skeans a thumbs-up from the stage after he got back on his feet.
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President Trump checked they were well with a thumbs up, and continued his speech after Mr Skeans returned the gesture.
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BBC Washington News Editor Eleanor Montague was at the president's rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday with cameraman Ron Skeans.
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"BBC cameraman Ron Skeans was violently pushed and shoved by a member of the crowd," the broadcaster said in a statement.
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" According to the BBC, the assailant "shoved and swore at the BBC's Ron Skeans and other news crews before being pulled away.
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About 10 minutes after Skeans was attacked, Trump laid into the media again while deflecting from the notion that his campaign colluded with Russia.
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The White House News Photographers Association, of which Skeans is a member, also called on Trump, along with the Security Service to boost security measures.
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And as election season begins, it seems that, while Skeans was the first, he may not be the last victim of Trump's war against the media.
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Mr. Skeans told the BBC that he "didn't know what was going on" when he was violently shoved on Monday, but that he was now fine.
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Footage shows the man, who was wearing one of the president's signature Make America Great Again hats, shove and swear at BBC cameraman Ron Skeans before being pulled away.
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Skeans was at the rally with BBC Washington producer Eleanor Montague and Washington correspondent Gary O'Donoghue, both of whom were sitting in front of the camera when the attack happened.
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But when Skeans landed the plum job in the corporation's Washington DC bureau in 1994, he surely didn't expect to come under physical threat while covering the rarified arena of US politics.
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On Monday evening, the BBC reports that Skeans was violently attacked by a Trump supporter wearing a Make American Great Again cap, while he filmed a presidential rally in El Paso, Texas.
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"The crowd had been whipped up into a frenzy against the media by Trump and other speakers all night," Montague said on Twitter, posting footage from Skeans' camera at the moment of the attack.
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"BBC cameraman Ron Skeans was violently pushed and shoved by a member of the crowd while covering a President Trump rally in Texas last night," a BBC spokesman said in an email on Tuesday.
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Wearing a red "Make America Great Again" baseball cap, the assailant jumped onto the reporters' platform and gave a "very hard shove" into the face of Ron Skeans, who said he was blindsided by the attack.
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Ron Skeans, a BBC cameraman, was shoved on the media platform by a Trump supporter who then hurled explicit insults at the press at President Trump's rally in El Paso, Texas on Monday, the BBC reports.
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Perhaps the most chilling section of the footage which Skeans himself filmed of the attack is toward the end, when the assailant is being removed by security to cries of "let him go" by many of the rally attendees.
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McNie was born in Scotland. He emigrated to Canada, settled in Hamilton, Ontario and married Mary Kathleen Skeans (1929–1980). Prior to being elected, McNie managed Kelley Advertising from the mid-1950s to 1971.
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O'hart claims that this Hugh Purcell was the unnamed knight mentioned by Giraldus Cambrensis, who states, "on the morrow, seeking to cross the river in one of the native boats to hold parley with the King, the boatmen rose upon him in the middle of the stream, stabbed him with their long skeans and the threw the body into the river." This Hugh Purcell's sons were Walter Purcell and Hugh Purcell of Loughmoe.
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Leaders of the Norman invasion of Ireland, depicted by Giraldus Cambrensis. According to O'Hart, this Hugh was the unnamed knight mentioned by Giraldus Cambrensis, as slain at Waterford. Hugh had been left in command of Waterford while the King departed for Dublin, ..."on the morrow, seeking to cross the river in one of the native boats to hold parley with the King, the boatmen rose upon him in the middle of the stream, stabbed him with their long 'skeans' and the threw the body into the river." In 1171 Sir Hugh Purcell was a knight who participated in the Norman invasion of Ireland, and around 1204 his grandson Sir Hugh married Beatrix, daughter of Theobald FitzWalter, Chief Butler of Ireland.
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