CBS News reporter says he got 'PTSD' from Trump assassination attempt because of crowd anger at media
CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane recounted podcaster Chuck Todd on Wednesday about how traumatized he was by Trump rallygoers blaming the media for the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in Americans reeled in shock from the attempt on Trump s life during a campaign rally in Butler Pennsylvania but MacFarlane stated he had personal trauma from the crowd s immediate rage in response For those of us there it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America MacFarlane advised Todd on his podcast And it wasn't the shooting Chuck This was I got diagnosed with PTSD within hours I got put on trauma leave not because I think of the shooting but because you saw it in the eyes the reaction of the people They were coming for us he explained in the clip flagged by The Daily Caller If Trump didn't jump up with his fist they were going to come kill us TRUMP STANDS 'STRONGER THAN EVER' ONE YEAR AFTER SURVIVING PENNSYLVANIA ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT STAFFERS SAY I know Todd agreed Later in the discussion MacFarlane added that A great number of of us on press row as we talked about this on our text chains for weeks after were quite confident we'd be dead if he didn't get back up While it wasn t everyone in the crowd MacFarlane claimed that dozens of people turned on them and explained You did this This is your fault You caused this You killed him and they were going to beat us with their hands I mean they were going to kill us And respectfully the Secret Provision had bigger issues than protecting us When he jumped up triumphantly it saved us CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURENonetheless he disclosed I can't eliminate from my mind's eye the look in their faces That's what America is right now It's not rational It's an irrational thought to think the media shot somebody from the top of a building but the lack of rationality is what connects January to this CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP How do we pull out of this as a country is the defining question of our time he announced
