Posted on 07/17/2025 10:56:38 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Scott MacFarlane told 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 2024.
MacFarlane said 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 told Todd on his podcast. "And it wasn't the shooting, Chuck. This was – I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 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 said in the clip flagged by The Daily Caller. "If [Trump] didn't jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!"
"I know," Todd agreed.
Later in the discussion, MacFarlane added that, "Many 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 said, "’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 Service had bigger issues [than] protecting us. When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us."
Nonetheless, he said, "I can't eliminate from my mind's eye the look in their faces. That's what America is right now.
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Poor baby.
The media wants Trump dead and the same media is upset that some of his supporters raged back at the same goons who have called for his killing
his poor wife....
He can go and buy feminine hygiene products at any drug/grocery store or maybe Tim Walz can donate to him and the press corps.
RE: anger at the news media....
Anger?
He hasn’t met people like me.
“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
Al Jolson’s ad libbed line of the first words ever in a talking picture The Jazz Singer.
yep, poor guy
You think his husband is regretting his choice in a spouse?
And report back to us. If you survive.
But Trump didn’t get PTSD from being shot in the head...
Before he got PTSD, he had PTDS.
What a P.
Shouldn’t that be ‘PSTD’?.................
More likely upset that they failed.
No, that is not what America is. That’s what you are.
Maybe it should be PMS.
This guy is an embarrasment..............TO GUYS!............
Scottie isn’t a drama queen, he’s the entire whining court. A more accurate, less self-absorbed version of this laugher would be “a wounded Trump saved my life.” He’d rather be burnt at the stake than say it.
What a depraved mind.
Was he among the (probably) majority of “reporters” who said to themselves “Damn, we missed!”?
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