It was a really unsettling thing to experience. The day after, a local website penned an article that was completely ridiculous about this, framing the article as though Chad had done something wrong. Because of politics, a number of the members of the GOP here began flooding the Executive Committee with demands for Chad to step down from his position as Precinct Executive Committeeman. On June 6, 2021, the Horry County GOP published a statement on its website to address the disturbance at the event, and explain what had happened from our perspective. The statement explained that Chad had acted appropriately under the circumstances, diffusing a potentially dangerous situation. It was based on the reports of other witnesses to the incident.

The attacks didn’t relent after this, and I personally felt SO upset about the way this was being propagandized, I brought Chad on the podcast to explain his side of the story. I started the show like this:

"Something happened at . . . Rock the Red, over the weekend, and there’s been this report that came out about it that is so utterly contemptuous that I am compelled to speak out about it . . . . I’m going to brief the story and then Chad [Caton], I will bring you in to discuss what happened.”

And then later on in the show I explain what I saw and what was reported to me by other witnesses that night. Mind you, I NEVER said this man’s name, and neither did the Horry County GOP statement.

The same outlet that wrote the initial piece that started the entire public portion of this incident, also published on their website a statement by the man who had the manifesto.