I am even more convinced now than ever that the conspiracy theory I have been trying to start is true, they are covering up that he was shot in one ear and it went out the other without doing any damage whatsoever.
If you don’t hear from me in 24 hours, they got to me, man, the MIB got to me
Pretty sure that could be true, as there’s empty space between his ears
Chances are the bullet is still in there, as its basically a vacuum.
Trump’s doctor, Ronnie Jackson, said the bullet “produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear.” We are expected to believe that a 78 year old man completely healed a 2 cm (3/4 inch) wide ear wound, that went down to the cartilage, in less than two weeks.
These guys are lying through their teeth, again.
I wouldn’t be surprised if in that statement he also added, “trump is in the best shape of his life, has 2% body fat, and will live to be 132.” Because we all know that doctor just loves lying out of his ass. Does he even still have his license to practice medicine considering he is a fraud?
Must be another example of Trump’s good genes! The best, big huge beautiful genes!
More proof he’s the antichrist :)
‘Twere Baphomet healed Trump
Behold, the Übermensch!
It’s in honor of Deadpool & Wolverine being released on Friday. Mutant healing ability pride weekend.
Two centimeters long by how wide? Zero? And maybe .1 deep? Like a papercut? Something like that could possibly get stitched or glued together in the allowed time. But it would definitely be shrapnel in that case, or his own fingernail. Like, if he felt a bullet go past, realized and ducked, then felt foolish and decided it would be better publicity with a wound instead of the focus being on him crouching for cover. I won’t say cowering because it’s an appropriate response to being shot at, but he would think it.
My heart goes out to the 3 very real victims, whose only crime was being idiot enough to be at a Trump rally. I hope the Trump campaign will put some money towards their medical bills (she said knowing they won’t).
or his own fingernail
Quite a stretch to imply Trump would ever do anything to intentionally cause himself pain
It’s an ear. I’m sure it’s cleaned up and stitched. Those pictures are not the highest quality.
**We do not need to waste time on conspiracy theory nonsense comments like yours. **. That ass clown has done so many terrible things that are factual, documented, undeniable.
I’m not so sure this conspiracy is a hill to die on.
He obviously milked it to the maximum. That ear bandage he was walking around with, was obviously a PR thing too. It did never look like a medical professional was anywhere near that.
Looked like a cocktail napkin.
Maxi pad
I thought it looked like he passed on on a pile of snacks and a desiccant pack got stuck to his ear. All it needed was a label reading “Do Not Eat”.
Look, I hate the guy, but that is how you bandage an ear.
People got shot so that parts real.
He could have been nicked or he could have caught it on a sharp point bending down or he could have cut it with a fingernail.
My money is on the fingernail. He’s probably on blood thinners. He’s probably got thin, brittle skin. He probably clawed at his ear when the bullet whizzed by.
He could easily have nicked it. A nick can bleed like crazy and also heal very fast.
From there it’s all spin…
The simplest explanation is probably this given how fast it healed, I guess.
that is how you bandage an ear.
No. Its not.
Source: many years as a nurse, several in emergency care.
I don’t doubt, that he was grazed by a bullet or a shrapnel. I’m just saying he milked it and that bandage was not professional.
I had a cancer removed from my ear and they bandaged it a lot like this? There are two primary means if bandaging an ear and they both look ridiculous. I have no doubt he got them to “make it look like a big deal” but you are not slapping a bandaid on that and calling it a day, right?
Edit - Moh’s surgery dressing is what I’m talking about.
In case it gets taken down completely:
There have been re-creations on YouTube with ballistics gel and pig ears showing what happens to an ear shot by an AR-15 round, I’m not going to lay judgement, just watch the video:
Ballistics gel (language):
https://youtu.be/FsvJzfXZI18#t=6m59s
Pig ears:
I’ll lay a little judgement. Shooting through a flat piece of tissue would give wounds similar to what was shown in the video. The difference between an ear on a human head that is facing you flat on and an ear attached to cardboard at a shooting range facing you flat on is that one of them has a head behind it. A hit is still possible, but it likely would have looked different from what they showed.
Obviously, whatever hit Trump’s ear, it was going more or less from one side of his ear to the other (front to back, or vice versa), otherwise it would have hit his head and we’d have a much more significant wound to discuss.
FBI Chief Wray was very careful saying that “Bullet or Shrapnel that Hit Trump’s Ear”, leaving things ambiguous. It set off some discussion online last week, with people wondering why he didn’t just say “The bullet that hit Trump’s Ear”.
I guess FBI Chief knew something was up already and was already hedging his bets. Well, I’d expect intelligence to… well… know things before everyone else.
Obviously Trump was bleeding from his ear. Something absolutely hit it. But if its healed this well by now, it probably wasn’t an AR-15 round.
Very interesting. I don’t think Trump can just leave that thing bandaged up for the next few months, everyone knows he’s gotta take the bandage off permanently eventually. The truth will come out.
Old people bleed extremely easily. I wouldn’t be surprised if he caught/scratched his ear on the way down.
The footage has Trump grab his ear midspeech, look around and get down immediately.
Something hit Trump’s ear. Its so weird that the Trump team thought it’d be best to pretend it was a bullet this whole time, surely they would have seen the wound and would have known?
Any doctor who saw the ear afterwards would have been able to say Bullet vs Glass vs whatever based on what they saw. If this whole “bullet to the ear” thing ends up being a massive lie created by Trump’s team, that speaks poorly of this upcomming election. Especially if it becomes representative of Trump’s lying and how much he makes his followers look like a fool.
If it ends up to be a true bullet-to-the-ear scenario, then whatever. Kamala looks like she was on her way to gaining momentum for the near future anyway and she has much better chances than I ever expected. (She’s not winning in the polls yet, but her energy is palpable. I can believe that she can turn this around between now and November, even without relying upon this weird ear thing going on…)
That’s the point I started to wonder: He grabs his ear, lowers his hand, and there’s nothing on it. Not even a tiny bit of blood on his tiny little hand.
I’ve never been allegedly hit in the ear, but most head wounds bleed immediately, and profusely.
Still, in this post do we know we’re looking at the right side of his big fat head? Photos are easily mirrored.
In the moments after a traumatic wound the blood vessels will momentarily contract before releasing again. I’ve cut myself before and had it take a few moments before it starts bleeding. Not saying this isn’t really sus, just that the specific thing you mentioned isn’t a (pardon the pun) smoking gun.
Yeah I give myself intramuscular injections and finding the hole takes a second because it doesn’t bleed immediately
Still, in this post do we know we’re looking at the right side of his big fat head? Photos are easily mirrored.
Photos are easily mirrored but Trump’s hairstyle is reliably Trump’s right to Trump’s left. So this alleged photograph is definitely of Trump’s right ear.
With the AP seeming to withdraw this photograph, there’s some controversy at play here. But AP is a well respected news brand. Surely they’d write about a story if they found something here.
Lol you know it was a lie by felon trump’s team. All they do is lie constantly. It would’ve been handled by them very differently if he had actually been hit by the bullet.
He fucked up, or his doctors are miracle workers.
I’mma roll with #45 effed up. Forgot his fake bandage, and nobody bothered to remind him.
He’s just a terrific healer. Like a more orange Wolverine.
They reconstructed the ear using part of his ball sack…the entire part.
I swear I read a chunk was supposedly missing from his ear.
Yeah, a lie promoted by his campaign and his doctor who doesn’t have a fucking medical license.
Lmao
I don’t remember reading that; what article said that?
Sincerely,
Not a TrumperTrump’s doctor, Ronnie Jackson, said it in an interview. He also said the bullet "produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear.
Obviously from the current state of Trump’s ear, he’s full of shit.
That doesn’t read like a chunk of his ear was missing. It reads like a shallow graze. No sutures were required.
Indeed. He should make up his mind since he’s made both claims.
Thanks. I didn’t see your first link.
Trump’s Doctor said a bunch of things.
I 100% believe that those articles existed (largely echoing Trump’s doctor), even if I didn’t see them personally. Different segments of the press assign different amounts of reliability to different political figures. It seems like the Democrats / Leftist print is to the advantage here compared to the Right who published the articles about the exaggerated claims of Trump’s Doctor.
Ronny Jackson is a crazy person, I’d just like to state
Democrats are the left, not leftists, and the “prints” of those two are only truly united in not liking Trump and other Nazis.
Democrats at best are center-right. Obama himself admitted during his initial run in 2008 that had it been the 1980’s, he would have been running as a Republican.
The ACA is RomneyCare, not ObamaCare.
These are the same Democrats that tried to hand Republicans literally everything they wanted regarding the border on a silver platter in the last fucking year.
Calling them any kind of “left” is a joke. They’re liberals, which is center-right.
Sure. But America is a joke.
That’s a fair cop.
I guess there is this? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112820414450748116
Doesn’t matter to his base. The fact that he was shot at makes him a martyr in their eyes (he was always their chosen one).
Just make sure we vote in numbers that can’t be ignored. 🔵 🔵 🔵
Oh no. This matters to his base because we can embarrass them with this picture moving forward.
They truly believe that Trump was hit by the bullet, and is missing a piece of his ear because of it.
They won’t get embarrassed. They were diapers, so they are like him…
All the Trump supporters I know call themselves “Moderates” and are “only asking questions”.
They’re already too embarrassed to call themselves Republican.
When someone is “just asking questions”, call them a JAQ-off
I mean, they won’t ever believe it. No matter what kind of irrefutable evidence comes out, they’ll all still believe he was shot in the ear. There could be slow motion camera footage of the perfect angle to see the shrapnel/glass graze his ear in a super clear picture perfect image and they’d still deny that he wasn’t shot in the ear.
Yes, but the difference is that when showing said irrefutable evidence in a group setting, the neutral parties who are listening into the discussion can see who is a dumbass.
Its not about convincing the Trump supporter. In many cases, its about convincing the low-information undecided voters who are sitting around or just casually listening in.
We aren’t there quite yet. I’d like to see more evidence than just one picture that’s been seemingly withdrawn by the AP. If Trump’s ear truly is healed up by now, we’ll get more pictures soon.
I don’t think anyone really cares because everyone stopped talking about it outside of stuff like this almost immediately.
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Couldn’t the image have simply been flipped along the vertical axis?
It could have, yes. Would an AP photographer and or Pete Souza do that? Very highly unlikely. He also combs his hair that way.
You could also ask,
Couldn’t the picture have simply been made with ai?The answer to both questions is the same.
But if I’m just asking questions and am a fragile snowflake, I can simply ignore any answers and continue asking questions.
His hairstyle isn’t symmetrical though. It has a side-part on the opposite side of his injured ear. So unless he suddenly decided to change the part of his hair (which, when you consider how involved it actually is because it’s a massive combover) it’s unlikely to be a flipped image.
In short: Because we can’t see his hair part in this image, we know it’s likely not flipped.
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Pete Souze disabled his account because of comments by the MAGA crowd.
“I re-posted a screenshot of New York Times photographer Doug Mills’ Twitter post of the same situation of Trump boarding his plane, which included the date and time of his photo. Doug is one of Trump’s favorite photographers and Trump has publicly called him ‘my genius photographer.’ So I thought the maga world would at least believe Doug Mills.”
“They didn’t. The comments turned ugly. Mostly about me, but also some that disparaged Doug Mills,” Souza continues.
“So I de-activated my Twitter account. It was a gut decision, made only by me. I am still not sure if this is a temporary or a permanent action,” Souza continues.
Same vibe
“Listen. I just have the best body. My ear did all the healing and it did it so good. The doctors can’t believe it, they say no human has ever healed this fast before.”
Is it possible he was splashed with blood from one of the other victims?
The more plausible explanation is that he was grazed by a piece of shrapnel.
He put that stupid big bandage on for theatrics.
There’s not even a nick in that photo.
Who’s to say it wasn’t an SS agent that got hit with the shrapnel?
Jesus healed it. Praise be!
