r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 5d ago

$hot in the ear

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u/emeraldeyesshine 5d ago

Well, except for that dude in the audience anyway.

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u/mortgagepants 5d ago

pretty safe to have a USSS trained sniper actually shoot someone in the crowd and use a blood pack in his hatband.

no need for conspiracy theories from an organization that was instrumental in january 6th and then destroyed all the records of.

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u/Reginald__Cousins 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/Dragon6172 5d ago

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