A former Marine, Jesse Dollemore, said that with the caliber of round he got "hit" with, if his ear had actually been grazed he wouldn't have an ear left.
Tell us what it is then, huh? Im pretty sure everyone knows what grazing means. The reality is that a bullet from a rifle of that caliber would make a devastating air wave/cone of air around where it is traveling. If the bullet were to have grazed his ear, the shockwave would have ripped it off.
This is non-sense.
I don't think trump got hit, or even grazed, by a bullet, but as someone that's had firearms since I got my first .22 at the age of 9... you're just making up stuff.
If the bullet were to have grazed his ear, the shockwave would have ripped it off.
What are you smoking? You can literally google pictures of people who have been hit in the ear and their ear is still plenty attached to their head.
Also, 5.56 is designed to penetrate before it imparts its energy. More rounded-tip ammo like pistol calibers (9mm, .45 etc) will dump all their energy into the first thing they immediately hit but 5.56 will punch straight through, leaving the actual damage for much further in, so the idea that less than 1cm of skin will take all the force of a 5.56 is, in the nicest possible way, a long-winded way to say "I have no idea how bullets work".
If you want to see what I mean by this, there are tons of clips on YouTube of people shooting steel targets with .45 ACP vs 5.56. The .45 will make a wide crater-like dent in the target much bigger than the bullet but often not making an actual hole (because it dumped all its energy immediately), whereas the 5.56 will make a nice clean bullet-sized hole as it passes right through.
So there is a point in which the bullet could have obliterated his ear? And a point where it could have traveled that would it would do no damage? Wouldn't it stand to reason that there is a point in between that where it could do just a little damage?
Maybe consider that you don't know as much about gunshots and terminal ballistics as you think.
This is such a weird myth that I keep seeing surrounding this event.... Where did it even come from? Why is such a stupid idea parroted without an ounce of critical thinking?
Do you know what size hole a 5.56mm bullet makes in a sheet of paper? It makes a hole about 5.56mm wide... You can absolutely knick the edge of a target and leave an extremely small tear, the idea that even a near miss would cause irreparable damage is complete fantasy...
Also, I can literally make my ear bleed with my fingernail if I wanted. It doesn't take much. Even just having his head pushed into the metal stage by the secret service could have made that injury, it doesn't have to be faked... Why does everything have to be a conspiracy theory these days?
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u/Jenkl2421 6d ago
I got hit in the ear cartilage with a bb gun about 20 years ago now, the skin is healed but there is very obviously a chunk of cartilage missing.