A journalist is facing ridicule from online critics after he admitted that the anger of Trump supporters led to him taking “trauma leave” after the attempted assassination of the president in Butler, Pennsylvania.
CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane told Chuck Todd that he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and had to miss work because of what he experienced on July 13, 2024.
‘You saw it in the eyes. The reaction of the people. They were coming for us.’
“For those of us there, it was such a horror, because you saw an emerging America,” said MacFarlane.
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“And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck. I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours. I got put on trauma leave, not because, I think, of the shooting, but because
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