
CBS News reporter says he got 'PTSD' from Trump assassination attempt because of crowd anger at media
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CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane says he suffered from PTSD after Trump rallygoers blamed the media for the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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"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!"













