Greg Gutfeld has taken aim at Scott MacFarlane after he discussed the reason why he was diagnosed with PTSD in the aftermath of the assassination attempt

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Greg Gutfeld hit out at MacFarlane (Image: Getty Images)

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld has slammed CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane for claiming he was diagnosed with PTSD after he covered the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last year.

On The Chuck ToddCast with Chuck Todd, MacFarlane said the crowd at the Trump rally were blaming members of the media for the shooting and he thought they would attack them, adding “within 48 hours” of the incident he “was diagnosed with PTSD.”

Gutfeld claimed that PTSD is now being overdiagnosed and that it was inappropriate for Chuck to talk about how he was affected by Trump having a bullet graze his ear and narrowly escaping death.

Discussing MacFarlane’s remarks, Gutfeld sarcastically said, “It speaks to something that everybody’s kind of scared to talk about, which is the over-diagnosis of PTSD. It used to be just for people who suffered war trauma, or just violent trauma, could be rape, whatever. But now it’s like people say, ‘I have PTSD, I had a terrible boss. He gave me, oh, I was at a rally.

“That was CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane claiming that he got PTSD from Trumpers after the assassination attempt in Butler because they were looking at him meanly. In 24, what was it, 48 hours, 24 hours, he was diagnosed? He’s the real hero.”
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Macfarlane said he was diagnosed with PTSD after the assassination attempt (Image: -)

His guest, comedian Joe DeVito also accused MacFarlane of suffering from “main character syndrome.”

He added, “It shows you the level of the main character syndrome that they were at a place, a man died, the guy running for president almost got his head blown off on live TV, and this guy’s like, but what about me? What about what I went through?”

Fellow guest, The Free Press editor Will Rahn poked fun at MacFarlane, saying, “I mean, listen, I’m a little soft on this issue, I am a millennial, I was traumatized twice on the way here.”

On the podcast MacFarlane claimed the crowd were growing angry immediately after Trump dropped to the ground after being shot at, until he stood up with a fist in the air

He said,“For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn’t the shooting.”

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A bullet grazed Trump’s ear (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Discussing his diagnosis, MacFarlane said, “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’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us.”

He also claimed “dozens” of people in the crowd told members of the media it was their “fault” the President was shot at and he believed they were going to beat them “with their hands.”

MacFarlane added, “There was a subset — not everybody — there’s dozens of people in the crowd who started coming for us, saying, ‘You did this. This is your fault. You caused this. You killed him’.”