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In my opinion as some random person on the internet, I don't think the first one was staged... the GOP are not good enough actors to pull that off, and a guy actually died in the attempt.
The second attempt though does smell a little funny.
I wonder if in the first one he wasn’t actually hit or something? How did the ear heal so fast?
I think it was just shrapnel from the teleprompter and he was playing it up to milk it... as he does.
The best explanation I've heard is the shockwave from the bullet split the skin on his ear. Think of a papercut that bleeds enthusiastically. The cute itself is fine enough, and the area has generous blood flow, so it heals rather quickly. But it looks worse than it is when it happens
That’s a good explanation!
He got nicked by something, probably a piece of debris, maybe from a shattering teleprompter?
Lots of blood vessels there, a little nick is going to bleed a lot, and still heal relatively quickly.