Serious question: are we absolutely positive it was his blood?
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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Right after the assassination attempt there were joking references to Trump's history with professional wrestling and the practice of "[blading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blading_(professional_wrestling))", ie, using a concealed razor to cut yourself during a fight in order to make it seem like you'd been injured. It was funny, but I didn't think anyone was taking it seriously.
Now I'm genuinely starting to wonder. What the heck happened here? The odds of a bullet grazing just so exactly perfectly close to make him bleed, but not to produce any actual long-lasting damage, are lower than all kinds of other ridiculous ideas. I don't even see any bruising in this photo. Elderly people often have a tendency to bruise quite easily.
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I mean, sure. He's rich. He probably got plastic surgery or something to fix his ear.
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Hopefully this means mods start issuing apologies to people and restoring all the posts that questioned this to begin with, that they decried as baseless conspiracy theories.
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So, I've had hangnails that left more of a wound and took longer to heal.
I wonder if diaper Donnie actually got merc'd that day and this is just a cheap clone from wish.com
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I genuinely, since the day it happened, have not believed that Trump was shot.
I watched over and over again and I swear what I saw was WWE theatre.
I would have believed an attempt on his life, from someone anywhere on the Political spectrum (I even said this before info about the shooter came out).
However, I don’t believe Trump. He has had a white mark on his ear for years. The “scab” that he’s playing off as a wound has been there for years.
He is the liar/the first beast!
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Are we really going to propose baseless conspiracy theories about his ear? This shitty res photo proves nothing at all imo. This didn't happen yesterday and no one on Lemmy has seen the wound clearly.
The only news here is that a photographer got banned for posting it
As the article mentioned, the photographer took down their own account.
They reached out to Souza, but did not confirm that he deactivated it himself.
Souza's profile, @PeteSouza, which had over 200,000 followers, now reads, "This account doesn't exist, try searching for another," implying that he has deleted or deactivated it. If he had been banned, it would read, "Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X rules."
Although seeing as how Elon violated Twitters rules this week by posting AI political content, I wouldn't put it past him to deactivate someone else's account on their behalf.
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You think old, pea brained, waddling trump could fake being hit by a bullet and then apply fake blood (or have it applied) while on camera?
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I'm skeptical of this photo. There's no way Trump can handle stairs like that. Unless the photo was taken after one of his usual, "pause for 3 seconds after each step cuz this is just too much."