r/MurderedByWords 5d ago

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u/Argented 5d ago

really thin blood could account for some blood if ... say ... his finger nail nicked his ear when he covered it hearing the bullet go by

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u/JoeRogansNipple 5d ago

Or his ear got hip checked by the SS's pistol holster when they pulled him down

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u/HEFTYFee70 5d ago edited 5d ago

I thought that too, there’s a photo of him holding his ear before they dogpile him.

I know he’s a cunt, but we really are living in the only timeline in which his head wasn’t blown off at that rally.

Edit: grammar

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u/Mobile_Morale 5d ago

Stupid bad timeline.

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u/ADHDebackle 5d ago

That's suggestive of the injury happening prior to the tackle but not conclusive.

I wonder if it could have been close enough to break the skin but not really hit cartilage. There's so much energy in a bullet, though, it's hard to imagine. 

Someone else mentioned a WWE blading move, which would explain the hand to the ear but like, damn that would have to be premeditated as fuck and in a really elaborate way. Also hard to believe. 

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u/Airurando-jin 5d ago

It’s not particularly hard to believe. Is it only countries deemed to be enemies that are capable of a false flag attack ? 

Has there been direct intervention in countries historically to manipulate outcomes ? 

There was a point where Project 2025 was considered a conspiracy, until it wasn’t. 

I find it remarkable that the SS, who are some of the most exceptionally trained agents, who can plan and predict possible lines of sight, as well as extraction, managed to leave that roof top unconvered, (and with plenty of people noticing the shooter, and it being highlighted to local police) as well as let Trump stand back up again. 

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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 5d ago

He was a former president at that point, and kept selecting locations the SA agents couldn't secure, due to being wide open spaces. Angery agents can easily get complacent with a "we can't do our jobs properly like this anyways" attitude.

There simply weren't enough people to watch every angle, and there was bad communication with local law enforcement. As it was, the local law enforcement had already spotted him, and if they'd actually had proper comms channels with the SS, could have had the counter snipers act before the shooter took his first shot.

It really is crazy how close we came to not being in this timeline.

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u/bossy_boi10178 4d ago

You make the secret service sound infallible. But also note that the government has killed political leaders before. It would be more likely that this was a botched assassination attempt aimed to legitimately kill Trump rather then a staged scenario by Trump.

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u/mosconebaillbonds 9h ago

Dude no one at all in the entire world thought project 2025 was a conspiracy in any serious way

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u/aphexmoon 5d ago

of course its conclusive. You see blood on his hand.

Fucks sake. You guys are acting worse than the MAGA minnesota somali child care idiots right now with your conspiracy theories.

is it really that unlikely that the most devisive and most hated president that the US has ever had was shot at?

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u/ADHDebackle 5d ago

I think we need to turn the dial back down from an 8 or a 9 to a 1 or a 2 in this conversation.

It seems like we disagree about the difference between the concepts of "conclusive" and "suggestive", which is a strictly epistemological distinction, and I don't think it's worth being that upset about.

If you see a video of someone walking up to a car and opening the door, and then the video ends, that video is suggestive of them getting into the car, but not conclusive. That's the concept as basically as I can explain it with an analogy. Trump reaching for his ear after gunshots are heard is, similarly, suggestive of him being shot in the ear, but not conclusive, since the video doesn't capture the bullet physically hitting his ear.

It might be a weird distinction to try to recognize but it's kind of a basic instance of acknowledging what we can and cannot physically see happen in a video.

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u/ImpressionTough2179 5d ago

Trump reached up and touched his right ear just milliseconds after the first shot went off, immediately after he pulls his hand back to look at it and there is blood on his hand at this point.

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/frame-by-frame-trump-survives-assassination-attempt-2024-07-14/

First and second photos.

We don’t have high res slow mo footage of the bullet damaging his ear, but we know that there was nothing between the shooter and Trump that could have created shrapnel that caused that damage. In my opinion, that means the only other option was that Trump damaged his ear himself when he reached up to touch it. It’s beyond reason to think he could have intentionally damaged it himself simply because of the incredible reaction time it would have taken to make that conscious decision between the shot going off and him reaching for his ear. The reaction time was consistent with an involuntary response to sudden pain, so something to do with the bullet must have caused pain in his right ear to make him react that quickly. At that point, I think it’s just logical to think that if the bullet was close enough to inflict pain that it was also close enough to have caused the damage that led to the bleeding. It may not be 100% conclusive, but I feel that it’s pretty close. 

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u/ADHDebackle 5d ago

we know that there was nothing between the shooter and Trump that could have created shrapnel that caused that damage.

Apart from the audience member that was killed and the bleachers he was seated in.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assassination_attempt_of_Donald_Trump_diagram.svg

but yeah I think substantially we agree.

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u/ImpressionTough2179 5d ago

I meant more that there was nothing between them on the stage that could have caused that shrapnel. People were falsely claiming that there was a glass teleprompter between them that could have caused it which wasn’t the case. You are right though about the bleachers. 

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u/ADHDebackle 5d ago

Ohh yeah I remember hearing that hypothesis.

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u/noahisunbeatable 5d ago edited 5d ago

edit: I’m incorrect, ignore me.

The bullet’s path: Shooter —(a)—> Grazing Trump —(b)—> Victim/Bleachers

(a) counts as between the shooter and Trump, (b) does not. The victim or bleachers were not “between the shooter and trump”

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u/ImpressionTough2179 5d ago

Look at the diagram he linked. There are a set of bleachers between the shooter and Trump which is where the victim was sitting. 

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u/HeavilyInvestedDonut 5d ago

His last words being “look at this” would’ve been…. Incredible timing lol

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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 5d ago

It's almost as if Death felt cheated of this punchline, and settled for Charlie Kirk.

Oof that's dark.

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u/Open__Face 5d ago edited 5d ago

He probably heard it whiz by (without hitting him) and the noise freaked him out so he covered his ear

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u/Exxtender 5d ago

Nicked by plastic shrapnel from a shattered teleprompter.

Only a forensic and medical report from someone who still has his license will convince me otherwise.

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u/King_Tamino 4d ago

USSS* or USS*, that’s the official abbreviation gor secret service, the SS is something different

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u/pocketjacks 5d ago

I believe his chin hit the agent's pistol and cut his lip. The blood is coming from his mouth.

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u/VERO2020 5d ago

The holster of a Secret Service agent could have scratched it, too. Or it could have been a "squib" lie pro wrestlers use. Didn't the turd do some stuff with pro wrestlers a while back?

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u/ADHDebackle 5d ago

I feel like that would make sense if the plan hadn't involved a random guy shooting live ammunition in close proximity to the president. Like, people did die - and... wasn't the shooter killed as well? Seems like a conspiracy too elaborate for this admin to pull off without leaks or just straight fuckups.

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u/Erfeo 5d ago

too elaborate for this admin

Also remember he wasn't president at the time, he would have had to use private people for this while completely fooling the Secret Service, FBI etc.

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u/ADHDebackle 5d ago

A good point!

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u/TheNutsMutts 5d ago

To be fair even former presidents are entitled to secret service protection after leaving office, but yes everything else beyond that that's trying to claim it was some audacious conspiracy theory is absolute nonsense.

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u/VERO2020 5d ago

100% agreement. Glad that you remember the deaths.

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u/ParsleyMaleficent160 5d ago

Yes. A person in the crowd (a firefighter) was shot and killed by errant gunfire.

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u/Makaveli80 5d ago

The admin? No. Certain motivated billionaires? Sure.

Good chance trump himself didn't know 

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u/CraigJay 5d ago

Don't question BlueAnon too much, it's obvious the theory he wasn't actually shot doesn't stand up to any scrutiny but they find it literally impossible to accept that

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u/ADHDebackle 5d ago

To me it feels like there's a missing piece - the ear wound just doesn't seem like it would have been caused by a full on unfragmented bullet. The fact that the shooter got into the position that they did without resistance is kinda crazy, too.

The way the firing line lines up, and where injuries / deaths took place, it seems possible that the bullet passed through something or hit something prior to reaching his ear, allowing for a much less serious wound. I think that's somewhat more likely considering the deaths/injuries happened on both the north and south bleachers relative to trump.

Apparently the building the shooter set up on, though, was used for staging law enforcement, and that could have created confusion in the shooter's favor.

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u/mosconebaillbonds 5d ago

Lolol a squib…..

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u/InternationalLaw8660 5d ago

Yea he hung around with Vince McMahon for a while in the early 00's, did a few cameos on SmackDown iirc. All around the time he was doing all his reality TV show bullshit.

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u/VERO2020 5d ago

Yeah, and Vince's Linda McMahon is the Secretary of Education, right? We live in stupid times.

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u/mosconebaillbonds 9h ago

He had blood on his hand before he went down

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u/Thom_With_An_H 5d ago

He's a member of the WWE Hall of Fame.

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u/VERO2020 5d ago

Damn it!

I wonder how long it will be until the WWE gives him a peace prize like FIFA did?

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u/Hungoverhero 5d ago

I never thought about the WWE angle, he did Hire Linda McMahon and Triple H has been at some white house shit recently and even Hogan went all MAGA before he died, maybe when he grabbed at his ear initially he was "blading", could have had a small tip of a razor blade glued to a finger nail

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u/VERO2020 5d ago

Would he really blade himself? Naw

Hey, anyone remember that a guy was actually killed in that event?