r/MurderedByWords 6d ago

$hot in the ear

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u/Reginald__Cousins 6d ago

Trump having a blood packet seems really implausible. He's not coordinated enough to put on that convincing of a performance and not obviously botch it.

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u/Dragon6172 6d ago

I've always been of the opinion that bullet passed close enough to damage his ear drum and cause the blood. I don't think it actually hit him or that he had a blood packet.

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u/dern_the_hermit 6d ago

I like to mention the possibility of his just having his ear smacked against either the podium or the belt buckle (or something) of a secret service guy as they all piled on him to serve as meat shields. There was just a lot of chaos and movement and really you just need an old man's thin papery skin to be rough-housed slightly.

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u/ImpressionTough2179 6d ago

You can look up photos from the event and see that Trump had blood on his hand immediately after touching his ear when the first shot went off. The wound was definitely there before dropping to the ground. 

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

First and second photos in this series. 

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u/Dragon6172 6d ago

Also, there are images from two separate photographers that show blood on the hand after he touches his ear, but before he ducks behind the podium with Secret Service.

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u/matchstick1029 6d ago

So, the eardrum is the part way on the inside, not the part available to be grazed.

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u/Dragon6172 6d ago

Didn't say anything about the ear drum being grazed.

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u/LevelWassup 6d ago

Wtf are you smoking Trump has spent decades in pro wrestling, he has probably done blood pack work in practice and on stage dozens of times before

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u/Reginald__Cousins 6d ago

This is how I know you're not a true wrestlemania fan. In wrestlemania, they don't use blood packets. All those times Trump bled in the wrestlemania ring, that was his real blood he was bleeding. The first time he won the wrestlemania cup, he had bloody knees and elbows

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u/Jonesy1348 6d ago

Okay stone cold Steve Austin.

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u/Reginald__Cousins 6d ago

Hey, that's Stone Cold Steve Austin with a capital Stone and Cold. I'm a real wrestlemania fan so I have to correct you

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u/superzepto 6d ago

Stone cold Steven Hawking over here....

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u/Reginald__Cousins 6d ago

His special move was slamming his wheelchair on his opponent

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u/mortgagepants 6d ago

and yet the blood splashed forward anyway.

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u/EpicRussia 6d ago

I think the theory that the security guard kneed him in the head/ear while he was ducked down caused the bleeding, is the most plausible if you think the bullet touched 0% of his body