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Sky News AU
17-07-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane says he got ‘PTSD' from Donald Trump assassination attempt because of crowd anger at media
CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane wildly claims he was 'diagnosed with PTSD' within 48 hours of President Trump's assassination attempt at a rally last summer — because he was convinced the crowd was going to murder him and other members of the media. 'For those of us there, it was such a horror, because you saw an emerging America,' the reporter said of the attendees at Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Pa., who famously rushed to provide assistance to those injured in the shooting. '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,' MacFarlane whimpered on an episode of 'The Chuck ToddCast' podcast. 'They were coming for us. If he didn't jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us,' he said in a reference to the now-iconic photo of a bloodied Trump pushing past his Secret Service detail to immediately yell, 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' 'Many of us on press row — because 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,' he said. 'When he jumped up triumphantly, it saved us.' MacFarlane further claimed 'dozens' of people in the audience that day instantly turned on members of the media, calling out 'You did this, this is your fault, you caused this, you killed him,' and speculating they were about to 'beat us with their hands.' Host Chuck Todd, who said he was on a flight to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee at the time of the assassination attempt, said the US has become 'a tinderbox' in recent years. 'Look, let's be honest, we've been fearing this for about a decade. That all of this heightened rhetoric, all of this crap online, what happened on Jan. 6 … we're a tinderbox. There's a fear that this moment is coming,' he said before appearing to lend some credence to MacFarlane's unhinged assertions. 'The fact that we dodged that, you're right, I don't know what would have happened had the outcome been different.' MacFarlane, hinting he hasn't quite fully shaken off the PTSD, added, 'I can't eliminate from my mind's eye the look in their faces,' he said, narrowing his gaze and affecting a grave tone. 'That's what America is right now. It's not rational. It's an irrational thought to think 'the media shot somebody from the top of the building.'' Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, opened fire as Trump addressed the rally crowd on July 13, 2024, wounding the president and two others and killing former fire chief Corey Comperatore, who died protecting his family from the assassin's bullets. Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper moments later. Originally published as CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane says he got 'PTSD' from Donald Trump assassination attempt because of crowd anger at media
Sky News AU
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Former NBC News host questions Joe Biden's family man reputation
Former NBC News host Chuck Todd has ripped into former US president Joe Biden's family man image. CNN anchor Jake Tapper joined Todd on his podcast 'The Chuck ToddCast' as they discussed Biden's decision to run for re-election. During the episode, Tapper spoke about his book Original Sin, which looked into Biden's decision to run for re-election and his cognitive decline cover-up. Todd then spoke about Biden and his reputation for being a family man, before questioning the former president's actions. 'You and I covered, for most of our professional lives, the story of Joe Biden was: This guy cared about his family so much he commuted home every night from Washington,' Todd said. 'You know what else you could say is, this man was so ambitious that after his family went through that tragedy, he commuted every day to work like it's the same story. I sit here, I look at this, and I think, were we sold a 40-year bill of goods?'
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Jasmine Crockett points to Kamala Harris' role as prosecutor as reason she had trouble with Black men
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, pointed to former Vice President Kamala Harris' role as a prosecutor on Monday as a reason why she didn't perform well with Black men in the 2024 election. Crockett appeared on The Chuck ToddCast with ex-NBC News host Chuck Todd, who asked the Democratic lawmaker if Black male voters were hesitant to vote for a woman. Harris served as a district attorney for San Francisco as well as California Attorney General before launching a bid for the Senate and ultimately serving as vice president. The former VP faced criticism from both sides of the political aisle over her prosecution record. "I definitely think that there was misogyny in this across the board no matter what color male you're talking about. I just think that you'd be in error to not like know that there was misogyny that existed," she said. "The very first polling briefing that we had, with a pollster that I trust a lot, he briefed the Black caucus, and he said that one of the issues that he was running into with Black and Brown communities was that she had been a prosecutor." Black Group Fires Back At Obama For 'Insulting' Harris Pitch: 'Worst Kind Of Identity Politics' "There was definitely some resume stuff that disallowed her from being able to build the type of rapport of trust within these marginalized communities that historically have been targeted," she said. Read On The Fox News App Crockett told Todd that she was given guidance to lean into Harris' background as a prosecutor, which she believed was not going to be helpful. "When I did it, I did a bit of a swing on it, right, as a criminal defense attorney, and I explained like this is the kind of prosecutor we all would have wanted, right? So, I built it that way," she added. Crockett said a prominent rapper told her he was uncomfortable openly endorsing Harris, citing her prosecution record. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture "So he told me that one of the issues was just kind of like the prosecutor thing. And I said, and I made sure to talk about the things that we had been told move the needle with these groups, right? Like knowing that she had like second-chance programs and things like that, like letting them know that she was one of the good ones," she said. The lawmaker argued that the fact that Harris was a prosecutor was "baked in" and people didn't know much beyond that. "When you're talking about 107 days of a campaign, it's kind of hard to get that across," she added. Crockett recently suggested Democrats were looking to run the "safest White boy" in 2028. "It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we've lost, so far," she said in a clip posted to Instagram. "And I think that that's a natural fear because we just want to win." The Democratic congresswoman added, "I had a donor on the phone with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell, and I tell you, it's not a Black person, nor a woman, OK?"Original article source: Jasmine Crockett points to Kamala Harris' role as prosecutor as reason she had trouble with Black men
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
GOP Rep Says ‘Crazy' Laura Loomer ‘Off the Movie Poltergeist'
Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon went in on far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer Monday, saying she was right out of the horror movie Poltergeist. On Monday's episode of The Chuck ToddCast, host Chuck Todd asked Bacon what he thought of the recent firing of top aides after President Donald Trump's Oval Office meeting with Loomer Wednesday. 'Sometimes, I look at her and think she's like a character in some movie,' Todd quipped. 'She's right off the movie Poltergeist,' Bacon said. 'I shouldn't say that, but she's crazy. And I'll leave it at that.' After meeting with Loomer, Trump promptly fired six National Security Council officials, including Senior Director for Legislative Affairs Thomas Boodry, Senior Director for Intelligence Brian Walsh, and, most notably, Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, head of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. 'The president denies that she had a part in this firing, but there's no other explanation for it,' Bacon said. Bacon added that Haugh was 'the best that we had in our military.' 'He got fired for no apparent reason other than they said he was treasonous, which is baloney, total baloney,' he said. 'This guy was an American patriot.' He further claimed that his firing set the country back on cyber operations and signal intelligence: 'We're not as good today as we were last week.' Loomer registered her disdain for Haugh on Friday, saying, 'All Biden and Obama holdovers need to be fired.' 'As a Biden appointee, General Haugh had no place serving in the Trump admin given the fact that he was HAND PICKED by General Milley, who was accused of committing treason by President Trump,' she wrote. 'I'm working hard to protect President Trump and the integrity of US National Security.' In a previous version of the now-edited post, she also called both him and his deputy, Wendy Noble, 'disloyal' to the president, which is 'why they have been fired.' 'There are a lot of bad actors embedded all over the FBI, DOJ, NSC, NSA, DOD, and State Department,' she said in another post on Saturday. It will 'take time to hunt these people down, publicly expose them and have them fired and removed from their positions,' she added. Bacon, a former Air Force brigadier general who served in the Air Force for nearly 30 years, expressed his shock at Haugh's sudden firing, telling CBS's Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on Sunday that, 'Frankly, he is the best that we had.' 'General Haugh is the absolute best leader in the US military to lead Cyber Command and the National Security Agency,' he said. He added that the rapid firing of these top generals would 'put us back' and 'hurt us.' 'Russia and China today are laughing at us because we just fired the absolute best leaders, the most qualified guys that we spent three and a half decades preparing to have this role, and he's gone,' Bacon said. 'It's heartbreaking to see that that decision was made without explanation, and it hurt us,' he said.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Revolving Door Round-Up: Antonia Hylton and Elise Jordan to Co-Host The Weekend
Positions Filled: Antonia Hylton and Elise Jordan will be working on the weekends. MSNBC has named them co-hosts of the soon-to-be revamped The Weekend. The duo will join Ayman Mohyeldin and Catherine Rampell as co-hosts of the 6 p.m. ET edition of the panel-driven program, which is expected to launch in early May. Hylton joins MSNBC full-time as co-host and network correspondent. She was previously an NBC and MSNBC correspondent reporting on various stories across the country. Jordan was also named an MSNBC contributor, and previously served as a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, appearing on Morning Joe and other programs. All four co-hosts made a joint on-air appearance on Wednesday's Morning Joe, where they discussed the latest tariffs enacted by President Donald Trump. Kornacki Stays at 30 Rock: Data guru Steve Kornacki will remain with NBC News after MSNBC and CNBC are spun off into SpinCo. According to The Los Angeles Times, Kornacki has signed a new deal making him a chief data analyst for NBC News and NBC Sports. He'll continue to analyze and dissect polling data and election results, and make appearances during major sporting events. Kornacki will also appear on the NBC News Now streaming channel, as well as Meet the Press, Today, and NBC Nightly News. New Bureau Leader: Oren Liebermann will be CNN's new Jerusalem bureau chief after previously working in the region for six years as a correspondent. He'll manage the network's multiplatform operations in Jerusalemn and report to Andrew Roy, the general manger of EMEA and London bureau chief. Podcast Relaunch: Former NBC News and MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd has relaunched his podcast, The Chuck ToddCast. After a three-month hiatus, the now independent podcast dropped a new episode on Wednesday and is expected to deliver three weekly installments featuring in-depth interviews as well as Todd's commentary on the latest news and events.
