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Wray said it's not clear yet whether it might have been shrapnel

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[–] [email protected] 177 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

His insecurity-induced attack is pretty much confirmation that the bullet didn't touch him

[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Easy enough for him to prove it— just take the maxi pad off and show the public.

But now he has a bigger problem, eventually he has to make his lie match his purported ear damage.

[–] PineRune 52 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"I got some great plastic surgery, the best plastic surgery. Better than the world has ever seen."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

#needs more orange 🍊

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just when I thought Trump finally suffers some kind of paltry consequence and he didn't even get shot. Reality sucks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We got thrust into the stupidest timeline. Although the tacos are pretty decent.

[–] grue 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If these are the tacos we get, imagine how awesome the other timeline's tacos must be!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The quality of the tacos is inversely tied to the quality of the timeline. The TNO timeline has some really fucking good tacos, but the one where Theodore Roosevelt shot Woodrow Wilson and won the presidency has fucking horrible tacos.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

It's so insecure right? To anyone who is confident or reflective it wouldn't matter.

[–] fluxion 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Wouldn't be a big deal if he didn't already have the whole storyline of Jesus personally coming down from the heavens to nudge poor ol' Trump's head out of the way so that we can witness the peace and prosperity of fascist rule under a convicted fraudster

[–] chemical_cutthroat 79 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I remember one of the first things I heard was that a bullet struck the teleprompter and he was hit by broken glass. I never heard anything about it after that, so I assumed it was just false; but it made a whole lot of sense at the time.

[–] Num10ck 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

wheres the teleprompter now? wouldn't that tell all?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 19 points 5 months ago

Dead teleprompters tell no tales.

[–] aseriesoftubes 5 points 5 months ago

Hopefully it was taken into evidence immediately, but who knows.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The teleprompter thing seems to have been debunked but that doesn't mean it was a bullet either.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 months ago (4 children)

He wasn't really shot, I'm calling it

[–] charles 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Some people speculated on this from day 1 when he wasn't posing for photos with his "bullet wound."

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[–] expatriado 55 points 5 months ago

he doesn't want to cooperate= confirmed shrapnel

[–] EleventhHour 47 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The question was whether a bullet or shrapnel hit Trump. But of course, Trump does not comprehend nuance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The question about whether it was a bullet or shrapnel wouldn't even be in the news if Trump didn't insist on playing up being an inch from death. Either answer would have been far less important than being shot at but no, he had to make the question about what hit him a big deal.

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[–] dogsnest 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Trump does not comprehend nuance.

I'm dizzy trying to figure out if this is irony, sarcasm, redundant, humour, reality, serious, comical, factual, dystopian...or did the psilocybin just kick in, on so many levels?

[–] EleventhHour 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whoa, it wasn’t meant as some deep, philosophical statement. I just meant that Trump likely doesn’t comprehend Wray’s distinction between getting shot with a bullet and being struck by shrapnel.

[–] dogsnest 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, omitted the "/s".
It was more hyperbolic and melodramatic, though. "/h + /m".

[–] Plopp 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] dogsnest 5 points 5 months ago

/a for apropo

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Either way, it shouldn't matter, someone still got close to killing him. But of course, Trump probably insists that people say he got hit by a bullet.

I'm sure we'll find out eventually unless he decides to continue wearing his maxi-pad.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This story could have just gone away, with most people never hearing that maybe he just has a little cut under his big gauze pad and anyone trying to bring it up looking extremely petty. But nope, Trump himself can't just let things pass unanswered.

[–] commandar 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also worth noting: Wray's statements were made in response to questions asked by Jim Jordan.

This isn't something Democrats went looking to dig up. It got stirred up by one of Trump's frothiest allies.

[–] Brokkr 8 points 5 months ago

Wait, Santorum isn't in congress though...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Trying to milk the pity party as long as he can to try and keep the spotlight off of Harris is all.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For anyone who was wondering why Trump refused to release the medical report after the shooting, this is why.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're telling me Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies wouldn't release a medical report of him getting "shot"? If he had proof he was shot, It'd be on tshirts made in China and plastered all over the place. It'd be on billboards, flyers in the mail, and everywhere you look.

This is the proof that he didn't get shot, he got hit by shrapnel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

But he's usually so honest and forthright

[–] charles 27 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Trump definitely did not fuck a couch.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Fuck it? I’m more likely to believe that he raped it and then tried to pay it off using campaign funds.

[–] dogsnest 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Trump definitely did not fuck a couch.

Citation?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He didn't pay hush money to the couch.

[–] dogsnest 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] ThePowerOfGeek 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

'Big Sofa' is out to get him and Vance.

[–] dogsnest 8 points 5 months ago

Their sexionals are on sale.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have it on good authority that he also has not denied raping and murdering a young girl in the 1990s.

[–] dogsnest 6 points 5 months ago

Ghislaine, that you?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

When you are president, they just let you sit on them.

Even with a full diaper!

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[–] Today 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fingers crossed! I have 'shrapnel' on my election bingo card! I just need "Black Hillary" (thanks for that one @[email protected]) and 'JD cries'.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was a splinter wasn't it?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

He got bone spurs in his ears.

[–] rickdg 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Shootings. How do they work. Nobody knows.

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[–] Zoots 8 points 5 months ago

They followed up that it was likely a bullet or bullet fragment

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