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‘Look Closely at His Ear’: Former Obama WH Photog Appears to Delete X Account After Implying Trump Wasn’t Shot (www.mediaite.com)
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[–] taiyang 96 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You know, given someone was shot dead at his rally, I'm not sure how much I care if he was shot in the ear or not. I know there might be some mouth breathers who think he's cooler for getting grazed in the ear but like... It was still an assassination attempt regardless, right? Or is the conspiracy that someone really hated that ex-firefighter?

Point is, miss by an inch or miss by a mile, a shot was shot. I hate the guy but debating the state of this assholes ear seems like a waste when we could be talking about Harris, lol

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago

Or is the conspiracy that someone really hated that ex-firefighter?

there is no conspiracy, people are laughing at him for being fucking pussy trying to harvest some sympathy.

person who said "he loves soldiers who did not get captured" now wears menstrual pad on his head for effect when it is clearly not necessary.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean sure. I agree with everything you said.

It doesn't matter if he was hit or not and someone is dead (actually 2 people). However--and I'm not saying I buy into this--if I had to pick a person / campaign who would set up live fire into a crowd and who cares who gets hit if the "target" gets a good photo op, it is trump all day long. And the kicker of THAT is I could imagine someone doing a bane / dark Knight rises "someone has to be in the wreckage" volunteer to get swiss cheesed by secret service.

I don't think the shooter kid meets that profile, but this is within the realm of possible for a fucker like trump.

[–] grue 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And the kicker of THAT is I could imagine someone doing a bane / dark Knight rises “someone has to be in the wreckage” volunteer to get swiss cheesed by secret service.

It's also within the realm of possible that, if there were a conspiracy, they could've simply lied to the shooter and told him that he wouldn't be treated like a disposable loose end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Also very true.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Just because audience got shot doesn’t mean every bullet was a real round.

Again, we don’t know until proven so take this with lots of salt but, it’s not too hard to make the first 3 shots a blank, trump hides after the first few shots, and the shooter keeps shooting the non blank shots.

I think his team is too incompetent to pull this off, but it’s definitely possible.

[–] Boddhisatva 57 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Well, I do have to say it is interesting. I'm no expert on gun shot wounds of any kind, but I'm not sure how much visible damage should remain at this point. His doctor, Ronny Jackson said that the bullet track “produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear."

This image is from this article and is dated Aug-24, 2023, obviously before he was injured.

This is from the post mentioned in the article dated July-27, 2024, nearly 2 weeks after the injury.

I can't see any marks from a bullet wound. Am I blind? It has only been 1.5 to 2 weeks since the injury. Shouldn't there still be some visible scarring if it was an actual hit and left a 2 cm (that's about 3/4" for my fellow Americans) wide track down to the cartilage?

[–] just_another_person 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but that's not been seen in pictures. In order to do cartilage damage, it would have had to tear the upper ear lobe. What we have in pictures is blood (ears bleed like crazy due to thin membane and high blood pressure) after the shooting, and then Trump without bandages playing golf.

I'm not pushing any conspiracy theories here, but if I may just say, that the whole bandage thing at the convention was absolutely bullshit. It's clear he dodged a bullet, literally, because a person in the crowd was killed. What I'm saying is that Ronny Jackson's take, and Trump's photos and behavior after the fact don't match up.

[–] Boddhisatva 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. As usual, Jackson is lying through his teeth. It was a slight graze. He didn't get part of his ear blown off.

[–] Alteon 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If his ear got hit with a bullet. It absolutely would have destroyed part of his ear. Literally anyone that owns a gun would know that. It was for sure a piece of glass.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I was deployed twice, got to see people with grazing wounds. They still needed a lot of stitches due to the kinetic energy of the bullet flying by them.

I don’t by for one second Trump was grazed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm glad you're pushing back. That person didn't address any of the valid points you've raised and I can't stand when people respond and do that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm 30 and don't heal from a blister in 2 weeks.

This dude is 80 and had a piece of his ear ripped off, totally healed 2 weeks later, no deformity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yah I slightly burned my hand like two weeks ago and there is still a red mark there.

[–] BradleyUffner 8 points 3 months ago

His doctor

If that's that the same doctor that keeps trying to claim Trump isn't obese, then in not believing a word he says

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The best evidence we have that Trump didn’t get grazed by the bullet is from Trump himself when he got mad fbi director said the investigation is ongoing and that we don’t know if it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit Trump.

He didn’t get hit by a bullet, he was cut by shrapnel or something.

[–] naun 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I read that it was glass from the podium.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The funny thing is that it doesn’t really matter that much.

The secret service messed up by allowing this to happen.

Republifuckers getting upset about whether it was a bullet or shrapnel (which it clearly was) it is hilarious.

[–] MapleEngineer 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those Trumpists shitheads love conspiracy theories about pedophile (an antisemitic dog whistle) lizard people (an antisemitic dog whistle) trafficking in children in the non-existent basement dungeons of pizza parlours but when anyone questions whether their orange God king might have been hit by flying glass they lose their fucking minds.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

I’m assuming the orange paint covers the scar.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I don’t want to dive into conspiracy theory but realistically, im gonna have doubt until i see a clear wound of some kind… like why wouldn’t there be one right?

[–] Boddhisatva 7 points 3 months ago

They're going to come out and say Trump is a mutant! This is some sort of guerrilla marketing for Deadpool and Wolverine isn't it? Damn you, Ryan Reynolds!

[–] 2ugly2live 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The more I hear about this, the funnier these pictures become. They're really hauling him out like he was shot in the chest. The one they keep saying is going to make America great again apparently wouldn't survive an ear piercing at Claire's. Teddy wouldn't have even flinched.

[–] BeMoreCareful 5 points 3 months ago

"missed me"

[–] Shapillon 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

tbf they had to haul him in case the shooter took another shot or if there were multiple ones.

[–] 2ugly2live 3 points 3 months ago

That's true, but I can't laugh at that 😤