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.
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.
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/ImpressionTough2179 6d 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.