CBS Reporter Says Trump Supporters Gave
Him PTSD After Trump Was Shot
Newsbusters,
by
Alex Christy
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/17/2025 1:56:55 PM
The media’s desire to make themselves the main character in the story reached the Platonic level on Wednesday as CBS correspondent Scott MacFarlane joined former moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, on his appropriately named podcast: The Chuck Toddcast. According to MacFarlane, he was diagnosed with PTSD after the first assassination attempt against President Trump, not because of the shooting, but because of the reaction of Trump supporters. Meanwhile, Todd thought this was a completely reasonable thing to claim.
MacFarlane recalled, “For those of us there, it was such a horror because
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/17/2025 2:02:47 PM (No. 1978799)
Whining, self-centered little p***y. I hope he never witnesses a bar fight - the shock would kill him.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/17/2025 2:07:33 PM (No. 1978801)
IIRC, one of the people died while shielding others. Those survivors are probably struggling with PTSD. Scott MacFarlane does not have PTSD. He sounds like a self-centered brat with a sense of entitlement.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/17/2025 2:18:04 PM (No. 1978804)
Oh, the poor man. Was he pinned down by Taliban automatic weapons fire? No? Was he trapped for a half hour in a burning building? No? Did a missile hit the building he was hiding in? No? Did he watch his companions get blown apart and die in front of him? No, as well. The little pric was frightened by Patriots who love and respect their President. Democrats can only hope for somebody half as good as Donald Trump.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/17/2025 2:21:37 PM (No. 1978807)
Oh, puh-leese! I bet MacFarlane never met a mirror he didn't like.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 7/17/2025 2:27:29 PM (No. 1978810)
"former moderator of NBC’s Meet the Press"
Chuck "ToxicPuke" Todd
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
downnout 7/17/2025 2:27:37 PM (No. 1978811)
I wonder what he thinks the Comperatore family and the others wounded that day are feeling. OTOH, he sounds like the kind of self-absorbed twit who thinks the world revolves around him.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
edgar 7/17/2025 2:51:04 PM (No. 1978823)
So, between the time the shots were fired and DJT jumped up from the platform floor, Trump supporters were threatening to kill people in the press pool? C'mon man. This does not add up.
No recording devices were active in the press pool while Trump was speaking at the rally? Where's the receipts?
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Compare and contrast this pansy with a mental disorder because people called in names with Trump standing up immediately, bleeding from his wound, pumping his fist, and screaming "fight!"
And that is the difference, ladies and gentlemen, between a real man and a leftist "man".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/17/2025 2:57:45 PM (No. 1978828)
OMG. give me a break. You do not have PTSD. More like your basic insanity. You are just sorry that Trump was not killed. If you are that freaked out I suggest you hop on a plane. I am sure Rosie can help you with the particulars of the transition. I guarantee you that you are the last thing conservatives think of on a daily basis. Yes, we think you are nuts but aside from ignoring you you are not on our radar. I assume that if you asked 25 people on the street "Do you know who Scott MacFarlane is"? you might find 1 person. You guys are so full of yourselves that if it was not so pathetic it would be funny. You might be a
gd mess but it has nothing to do with conservatives.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chumley 7/17/2025 3:01:09 PM (No. 1978830)
He'll be ok. He just needs his binky and his poster of Pajama Boy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hershey 7/17/2025 3:03:27 PM (No. 1978832)
Give this bozo a rifle and stick him over in the sandbox and he will know what real PTSD is...what a crybaby...give him some cheese to go with his whine....
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I watched the assassination on TV, not live, but after I got home from a visit with my niece.
I felt traumatized as if I was right in Butler, PA with Trump. Can I still sue someone
for PTSD?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Kate318 7/17/2025 3:10:00 PM (No. 1978838)
These people truly are insufferable. They claim to not have slightest clue as to why they are so hated. It was their guilt that made them so afraid, not the look in MAGA’s eyes. Notice how nothing happened to these pansies? Were the situation reversed, a leftist crowd would’ve immediately turned violent.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Newtsche 7/17/2025 3:19:35 PM (No. 1978840)
I got yer PTSD right here, Nancy.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 7/17/2025 3:22:33 PM (No. 1978841)
What a crock of manure. This jerk has no concept of the things he is talking about.
This is the kind of total low life that gives reporters such a bad name. Vermin.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 7/17/2025 3:26:52 PM (No. 1978845)
As Damon Imani said to Anna Navarro after the first assassination attempt on Trump.
"You said Trump was like Hitler! Why would you be happy that a man like Hitler is OK?"
"This, is on you!"
Yes, Chuckles and Scott, you are largely responsible for inciting the violence that erupted in Butler.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 7/17/2025 3:43:04 PM (No. 1978853)
Calling BS on CBS
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 7/17/2025 4:07:33 PM (No. 1978858)
60% VA disability. 50% of that is PTSD. Iraq. What is this moron going on about?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/17/2025 4:13:41 PM (No. 1978860)
Feel good headline of the day. Poor wittle MacFarlane.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ronniethek 7/17/2025 4:22:37 PM (No. 1978864)
Dear CBS reporter—kindly drop dead.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Turninggrey 7/17/2025 4:45:40 PM (No. 1978869)
I honestly do not think I have ever heard 2 men proclaim their lack of manhood more distinctly than MacFarland and Todd in this clip. "They (Trump supporters) hurt me with their looks in the 2 seconds between when Trump was shot and when he raised his fist. I needed therapy. I am a hero. I am like the door kickers in Afghanistan and now have PTSD."
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/17/2025 5:08:42 PM (No. 1978870)
TRUMP was the one who got SHOT! and HE doesn't have PTSD...pussy.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
john56 7/17/2025 5:13:07 PM (No. 1978874)
I'll tell you what PTSD is.
It's the 19 year old daughter of a friend who was a guide at Camp Mystic a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully, she survived but carries the grief, memories and mental pictures of others swept away. That young lady has done a lot of growing u in two weeks.
It is not this self-absorbed doofus.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 7/17/2025 5:24:59 PM (No. 1978876)
These two weasels really need to shut their mouths.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Kafka2 7/17/2025 5:57:46 PM (No. 1978890)
This is such a pathetic “poor little me” play for attention. He’s deplorable.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
jasmine 7/17/2025 6:01:23 PM (No. 1978891)
Why would MacFarlane interpret an assassination attempt against President Trump as something for which the press, including himself, would be blamed? Could it be because the press has promoted the notion that Trump supporters are hateful bigots, and Trump is a modern day Hitler? His mind immediately went to thinking the audience was coming for him, which sounds like a guilty conscience to me. President Trump showed what he is made of on that day. As did Mr. MacFarlane
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/17/2025 6:23:18 PM (No. 1978898)
Rubbish.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/17/2025 6:31:24 PM (No. 1978900)
He really got wound up for the Daily Caller headline:
‘They Were Going To Kill Us’: Reporter Claims He Got ‘PTSD’ After Trump Shooting Because Crowd Blamed Media
On CBS for 20 years. A generic news reporter face...aka forgettable. He
s a wussy grandstander. Bleah.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/17/2025 6:51:30 PM (No. 1978907)
Sounds more like you should be diagnosed with PARANOIA, not PTSD. Liberal media seems to be the most paranoid when they are around a friendly crowd of MAGA supporters. They simply cannot believe that they are not receiving the same horrible treatment that liberals would certainly give to a conservative media personality / reporter in the same situation. Liberals would have run him out of the rally before it even began then hunted him down after the assassination attempt as the possible shooter! Anything bad about the rally and the Trump supporters exists only in his mind.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/17/2025 7:22:42 PM (No. 1978929)
Good. If demanding you tell the truth gives you PTSD, I'm all for it!!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/17/2025 7:44:23 PM (No. 1978938)
Good grief. McFarlane is pathetic. We were watching live when Trump grabbed his ear and fell. Naturally, I was shaken and angry but hardly had PTSD. What is it with these self-absorbed twits?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/17/2025 8:31:12 PM (No. 1978949)
SeeBS has reporters? When did that happen?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/17/2025 10:30:37 PM (No. 1978973)
On Gutfeld they are calling it "Main
Character Syndrome"...
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JimBob 7/17/2025 10:39:07 PM (No. 1978977)
Oh the poor little dear!
Call him a WAAAAAHHHMMMbulance!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
danu 7/18/2025 12:13:13 AM (No. 1979004)
pa thet ic whinging old sod.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
5 handicap 7/18/2025 5:52:35 AM (No. 1979034)
Never heard of that guy... What an Ass!
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