{"id":2464858,"date":"2025-07-21T17:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-reporter-blames-ptsd-on-maga-crowd-at-trump-shooting-liberal-media-scream\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:11:40","slug":"cbs-reporter-blames-ptsd-on-maga-crowd-at-trump-shooting-liberal-media-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-reporter-blames-ptsd-on-maga-crowd-at-trump-shooting-liberal-media-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS reporter blames PTSD on MAGA crowd at Trump shooting: Liberal Media Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-reporter-blames-ptsd-on-maga-crowd-at-trump-shooting-liberal-media-scream%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2464858&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses CBS political reporter Scott MacFarlane&#8217;s reaction to the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. MacFarlane revealed that he was diagnosed with PTSD shortly after the event, not directly because of the shooting itself, but due to the unfriendly crowd of MAGA supporters present. He claimed he feared that members of the crowd were going to harm the media,believing they blamed the press for the shooting. During an interview on &#8220;The Chuck ToddCast,&#8221; Chuck Todd expressed similar fears about Trump supporters, reflecting on the tense and irrational atmosphere surrounding the incident. The article includes criticism from Brent Baker of the Media Research Center, who questioned MacFarlane&#8217;s claims and suggested that his admission reflected poorly on journalists. the story highlights the intense polarization and fear experienced by some media figures in the aftermath of the shooting attempt on Trump.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">CBS reporter blames PTSD on MAGA crowd at Trump shooting: Liberal Media Scream<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2172755\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A CBS political reporter said he suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a> following his coverage of the attempted assassination of then-presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3470499\/katie-couric-trump-maga-liberal-media-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Scott MacFarlane didn&rsquo;t blame shooter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3469849\/former-secret-service-director-cheatle-perfect-storm-butler-shooting-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Thomas Matthew Crooks<\/a>, the noise of Crooks&rsquo;s rifle going off eight times, or the near-death of Trump. He blamed the crowd of MAGA supporters, whom he envisioned &ldquo;were going to come kill us.&rdquo; He said he felt the crowd would blame the media for the shooting and that &ldquo;we&rsquo;d be dead&rdquo; if Trump didn&rsquo;t survive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3477128\/selling-big-beautiful-bill-tax-cuts-gop-midterm-elections\/\">Selling &#8216;big, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-johnson-fights-to-keep-trumps-ear-as-house-agenda-stalls-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Mike Johnson fights to keep ...\u2019s ear as House agenda stalls - Washington Examiner\">beautiful bill&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s&#8217; tax cuts is Trump&rsquo;s No. 1 job<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3476437\/epstein-bungling-overshadows-a-pretty-good-week-white-house-report-card\/\">Epstein bungling overshadows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-tapper-admits-there-is-a-very-ugly-side-of-the-left-that-shows-up-when-nikki-haley-runs-for-office\/\" title=\"Jake Tapper Admits There Is A \u2018Very Ugly Side Of The Left\u2019 That Shows Up When Nikki Haley Runs For Office\">pretty good week<\/a>: White House Report Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3475483\/big-2a-victory-as-trump-pulls-biden-threat-to-20-million-gun-owners\/\">Big 2A victory as Trump pulls Biden threat to 20 million gun owners<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>For that, he easily won as our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3470499\/katie-couric-trump-maga-liberal-media-bias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Liberal Media Scream<\/a> of the week. But he was challenged during an interview on <em>The<\/em> <em>Chuck ToddCast<\/em> when Todd offered up his own bizarre reaction to the assassination attempt that killed Trump supporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog-posts\/corey-comperatore-honored-at-inaugural-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Corey Comperatore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Todd said, &ldquo;I share your concern. Just a little thing. I was &mdash;&nbsp;literally the first thing I was going to do after landing [in Milwaukee to cover the GOP convention] on Saturday was go to the Nats-Brewers game, and I said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m not going. I&rsquo;m not going to be seen going. I&rsquo;m not, I&rsquo;m not doing that. This is not the moment for this.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Todd went on to say he has long feared Trump supporters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The<\/em> <em>Chuck ToddCast<\/em>:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CBS Reporter Claims He Feared Trump Supporters Were Set to Kill Him After Trump was Shot\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SIWc2R6asdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>SCOTT MACFARLANE:<\/strong> <em>For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn&rsquo;t the shooting, Chuck. This was &hellip; I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because, you could &hellip; you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn&rsquo;t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHUCK TODD:<\/strong> <em>I know &hellip; Look, I share your concern. Just a little thing. I was, literally, the first thing I was going to do after landing on Saturday was go to the Nats-Brewers game, and I said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going. I&rsquo;m not going to be seen going. I&rsquo;m not, I&rsquo;m not doing that. This is not the moment for this.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And I think we &hellip; none of us knew what the reaction of that Milwaukee crowd was going to be to this. Right? It turned into euphoria, right? It turned into this messiah, sort of messiah feeling. I think that, you know, that this was divine intervention<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>But I share that, that Saturday, and what you just described, being on the ground, was the first thing I thought of was my team down there. I think it was Vaughn Hillyard, if I&rsquo;m not mistaken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MACFARLANE:<\/strong> <em>Dasha was there as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>TODD:<\/strong> <em>And Dasha Burns, right? And, look, let&rsquo;s be honest. We&rsquo;ve been fearing this for about a decade. That all of this heightened rhetoric, that what all this crap online, what happened on Jan. 6, those of us that experienced that as well, you&rsquo;re like, we&rsquo;re a tinderbox, right? You know what? There&rsquo;s a fear that this moment is coming. And it&rsquo;s interesting that you &hellip; the fact that we dodged that. You know, you&rsquo;re right. I mean, it&rsquo;s, it is &hellip; I don&rsquo;t know what would have happened had the outcome been different.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>MACFARLANE:<\/strong> <em>We are all &hellip; many of us on press row, as we talked about this on our text chains for weeks after, were quite confident we&rsquo;d be dead if he didn&rsquo;t get back up. There was a subset, not everybody, there&rsquo;s dozens of people in the crowd who started coming for us, saying, &ldquo;You did this. This is your fault. You caused this. You killed him.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CBS&#8217;s Scott MacFarlane claims that after Trump was shot &#8220;I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because, you could, you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn&#8217;t&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MfrQxN9mvh\">pic.twitter.com\/MfrQxN9mvh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexchristy17\/status\/1945883265056788873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p><em>And they&rsquo;re 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, but that&rsquo;s the thing. I can&rsquo;t eliminate from my mind&rsquo;s eye the look on their faces. They &hellip; that&rsquo;s what America is right now. It&rsquo;s not rational. It&rsquo;s an irrational thought to think the media shot somebody from atop a building, but the lack of rationality is what connects Jan. 6 to this. It&rsquo;s &hellip; how do we pull out of this as a country is the defining question of our time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/brent-baker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Brent Baker<\/a>, the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: &ldquo;Yes, the near-assassination of President Donald Trump wasn&rsquo;t the real &lsquo;horror&rsquo; of the day. The real &lsquo;horror&rsquo; was in how, in the few seconds before Trump triumphantly raised his fists, MacFarlane somehow sensed the crowd would &lsquo;kill&rsquo; him and other reporters? Really? If Trump supporters were on the cusp of deadly violence, why are we just hearing about it a year later? And McFarlane really got diagnosed with PTSD? We all know too many journalists are snowflakes, but you&rsquo;d think MacFarlane would have the self-respect to keep such an embarrassing admission, of his fear of fellow Americans, to himself.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rating:<\/span> <em><strong>FIVE<\/strong> out of <strong>FIVE<\/strong> screams.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2172755\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2172755\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS reporter blames PTSD on MAGA crowd, not shooter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2464859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trump-Butler-Media-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7585,32491,5656,14124,34989],"class_list":["post-2464858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-cbs","tag-liberal-media","tag-maga","tag-ptsd","tag-trump-shooting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trump-Butler-Media-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464862,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464858\/revisions\/2464862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}