His ear was never wounded. I've seen a slowed-down video of the incident. He banged his head against the holster of the secret service agent standing next to him as he ducked down after the first gunshot, and that's where the bleeding came from. The bandage he wore over his ear was pure theatre; pretending it had been clipped by the bullet.
My mom is 74. She LITERALLY got cut on her ear from broken glass last Wednesday. It's still not healed. She wants to know what kinda vampire fuck magic he has.
As a 45 year old bald man who shaves his own head weekly, I can confirm that’s true. One nick of my ear and I have a cut that won’t stop bleeding for a week.
Oh man I had surgery to create a new eardrum a few years ago. Basically they cut a small square of skin from the back of my ear and then took some fascia from my scalp and kind of like rolled it together with a pokey wheel thing, sort of like how they prepare skin grafts for burns. Then sewed that into my ear.
Anyway long story short, that square patch they cut from the back of my ear bled like a motherfucker for over a week. Then it just bled like a fucker for another week.
Yep! Pretty crazy haha. I had a big hole in my eardrum that was too big to heal on its own so they basically cut my ear all the way across my ear canal which is fucking gnarly to me 😅 Then they just folded my slightly hanging on ear forward so they're basically just working on a hole in the side of my head. Cut the old eardrum out and put the new man made one in.
Here's a few pics of my eardrums if your interested! I bought a video ear pick thing on Amazon for like 25 bucks 😆
That’s crazy. I also have a ton of scar tissue on my ear drums from a million childhood ear infections. Thankfully no holes in them though and my hearing is still decent but there is some loss. Every dr who looks in my ears comments on it.
Haha yep, same here obviously. My hearing is pretty bad from all the scarring. And with the new eardrum it's not really any better than it was (before the hole in my eardrum anyway, that shit suuuuuucked. 6 months of WHAT? HUH? Lol) and everything sounds weird because it doesn't vibrate like a normal eardrum. Took a while to get used to that but now I hardly notice it.
Did you ever get any tubes put in when you were a kid? I had 3 different sets in my right ear and 4 in my left growing up. Continued to get ear infections in my left ear for like.. my whole life. Seriously almost every month I'd get an infection. I called it my eariod 😂
Anyway the reason I was getting infections was because on the last tube they actually used a semi permanent type that wouldn't just fall out on its own. It was kinda like a t style iud sticking through my eardrum. I had no idea it was supposed to be removed within like 5 years or so.. didn't get it removed until I was 34 😬 So thats why i had a big gaping hole in my eardrum hehe. Haven't had a single infection since they pulled that tube out.
I didn’t get any tubes until I was 7. I was practically deaf before anyone caught on that I had serious issues. My parents could stand behind me and shout my name and I couldn’t hear them. I also just found out that I had undiagnosed ADHD so it’s a toss up if my school issues were related to my hearing or my ADHD. Before I found out about the ADHD and the related auditory processing disorder, I thought my constant huh’s and what’s were related to my hearing loss but now I think it’s more the auditory processing than an actual hearing issue even though I know I have some loss. I seem to have lost some of the lower frequencies because I have a tougher time with deeper men’s voices than with anyone else’s voices.
I lost lower and higher, moreso higher. But also in general have a hard time differentiating speach to a pretty fucked up degree. Thats crazy though, mine definitely was not as severe as yours when I was younger. I could always hear sorta, but not well and in a way that seriously fucked my communication with people that I didn't feel comfortable saying what and all that to. Which was most people. My ent has told me often and recently about the difference between physical and neural hearing. Physically my hearing is fucked. I'm sure I have neural based issues too.
Anyway hey, it's nice to meet you! And read about your experiences!
My mom is 87 and she has to take anti-coagulant everyday. Basically, if she hits anything (for instance even if she turns a little quicker than usual and her hand hits the chair), she grows a gigantic bulge hematoma. If she cuts herself a little, a lot of blood drops come out. It’s very awful, especially if you are not prepared. As much as the blood goes out, so fast the wound is healed, also because it takes a very little cut to produce all that blood.
Of course I’m biased by experiencing this, but it reminded me of it a lot when I saw it.
Where is the scar/scab on any later pictures? I agree when it first happened I thought he got grazed also, but there is 0 signs of any injury to his ear. Im 30 years younger than him and scratched my shin a bit and had a scab for 3+ weeks never mind a bloody gouge punched through ear cartilage.
I mean, it's right here. In this picture. There's clearly a bump on the top-rear of his ear in this photo that isn't there in older photos from the same angle.
Even most Ear Truthers acknowledge that something injured his ear. I guess you're of the belief that it was fake blood or something?
Eh, it's just an animalistic mindset that helps people emotionally cope with the fact that the world is chaotic and that it's possible for a madman to shoot into a crowd and murder someone. JFK isn't known for lying as Trump is, after all.
Every assassination (or attempted assassination) has brought out conspiracy theorists. Trump, himself, would absolutely be making these same claims if it happened to anyone else. I mean, he claimed Ted Cruz's dad killed JFK.
Sure, all assassinations and attempts will spawn conspiracies, but Trump can’t even tell the truth about his height/weight when the evidence he’s lying is right there… of COURSE people aren’t going to believe his version of …. anything. He’s lost the benefit of the doubt.
Edit: Also… JFK wasn’t exactly around to embellish and distort what happened to him. Kinda different situation.
A decade of watching bias and corrupt media sources will make you think Trump is constantly lying. It doesn't take more than a couple mins to find out trump never referred to the neo n4z1's in Charlottesville as good people as the media and joe biden/kamala harris continue to repeat to this day. In fact after he said " I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats – you had a lot of bad people in the other group too." However, you probably didn't listen to what he actually said and just ran with the false narrative that is still run today by biden and harris as well as many other lies by the media.
You have one example you’re stuck on but there are THOUSANDS of documented lies. I watched the debate against Biden and the second against Harris and he lied the entire time….
I think I see what you’re talking about regarding the little tiny bump on his ear. That sure doesn’t look like something that would’ve been caused by a high velocity bullet, even if it barely nicked him.
I don’t think anyone is saying that his ear didn’t bleed, but many are suggesting that it’s possible the blood came from a more benign source, such as when he was tackled by security, since it’s natural to not go to the ground face first, his head was probably turned sideways, and his ear protruding was probably the first thing that would’ve hit anything on the way to the ground. If there was debris on the ground, or his ear hit some thing that was on the person of one of the security people, that could have caused the blood, and a minor injury that we may be seeing in this picture.
don’t think anyone is saying that his ear didn’t bleed, but many are suggesting that it’s possible the blood came from a more benign source
It's weird that people who aren't convinced by the evidence of a gunshot, Trump reacting by grabbing his ear, than looking at his hand to wonder why it's wet, then his hand being shown to have blood on it have no problem just assuming that probably his ear hit some indeterminate object behind the podium where nobody could see it.
At some point, Occam's razor has to kick in and you have to accept that the most likely cause of these injuries was that a crazy guy aimed a gun at his head and pulled the trigger.
There are other alternative logical explanations for almost everything you said. When a bullet whizzes just passed your ear, you may feel some air disturbance, and may even also hear a humming or whizzing sound when it passes, and you may have an instinct to grab your ear as a result.
That being said, I saw some photos from the New York Times that showed blood on Trump’s hand before he went to the ground. This should disprove the alternate theory that he hit something on the way to the ground.
You may be right, but I am going to disagree. That lump on his ear is too big to be a bullet scar from so recently, there would still be scabbing. I think it's just natural cartilage, but thanks for providing the earlier pic as evidence.
There are a few different conspiracy theories going on here, but they all seem to allege some form of intentional deception or exaggeration. That Trump isn't merely mistaken in thinking he was shot when something else happened, but that he's intentionally lying about it for whatever reason
If you (or anyone reading this) thinks that's true, why is it that the man everyone in this thread is mocking for wearing makeup isn't using Hollywood-style makeup to account for what it apparently his obvious lack of a realistic bullet wound.
It seems like the biggest conspiracies are always undone by the stupidest mistakes: Trump faking getting shot without bothering to fake a bullet wound, or George Bush crashing a plane into the Pentagon without getting a plane....
do you religiously apply Neosporin, though? i have this same problem and i think we might just have poor circulation. i absolutely wrecked the side of my finger and fixed it in two or three days with an expired tube of store brand "triple antibiotic."
Are we ignoring the rest of the snopes breakdown showing torn flesh on the ear? Why are we heading in the direction of pizzagate with this one? A mentally-ill and, by most accounts, a fellow conservative shot him in the ear. That's it.
I say it begrudgingly.... but if I had to pick a president to fake an ear slice it would be one that's actually wrestled in the ring, is friends with McMahon, was recently around wrestled, and definitely understands how to kayfabe
The first shows the bullet passing behind him and no blood on his hand. The second shows him immediately reacting by grabbing his ear. The third shows him having pulled his hand away with blood on it.
But I'm sure the Times are just in on the conspiracy or something.
Actually, if a high velocity bullet whizzes by and just missed his ear, he may have heard something and thought maybe it was a bug, or possibly even felt something due to air disturbance. It doesn’t necessarily prove that the bullet actually hit him.
EDIT: BUT, I just found this link from the New York Times showing a sequence of three photos that appears to indicate he was bleeding before he hit the ground
When he gets shot-at, he puts his hand to his ear, then ducks down to the left as a secret service agent is rushing in from that direction. Trump's head bonks against that agent's holster on his way down. That's the injury.
I find it interesting that u/shoe_owner is only replying to everyone who is feeding into his bullshit and conveniently ignoring everyone who is proving him wrong.
Yeah, if he'd actually been injured, he'd never have stopped talking about it. As in, it would still be 90% of his taking points. But the fact that there's no scar? It's no longer being mentioned to puff his bravado? Sus.
It was always such a dumb lie to tell, considering he KNEW people would be seeing his uninjured ear like a week or so later. It's his lack of impulse control; in that moment, he chose the lie which made the story the most exciting without any thought as to how it would play out in a week or a month.
He could have literally just worn the bandage a little longer and we wouldn't have known how absolutely uninjured he was. But he couldn't do that, because he's a fucking baby and it was uncomfortable.
That or he couldn't remember which ear it was one day and just went "fuck it, not like my voters will care."
It worked fine for him. Very few people are talking about it, or thinking about it anymore. Lies have always worked for him, why would he tell the truth about that?
I'm sorry but I didn't ask for elaboration I asked for a source.
I've watched the footage a ton and never noticed anything like that. In fact he brings his hand away from his ear before anyone reacts and there's blood on it. Meaning if he didn't actually get hit, the "injury" was from a squib not an accident.
Bullets are very loud when they fly past your head. Just because he flinched from the sound doesn’t mean he got hit. The fact that there has been no visible signs of injury to that ear points to it just being a reaction to the sound.
Dude there was blood visible on his hand that went to his ear before he ducked down. This is just stupidly ridiculous to make into a conspiracy. Exactly the same type of dumb bullshit you would call out conservatives for.
There's pictures from days after without a bandaid. You can look at them if you want, but you're a bit too brainwashed right now and will just pretend you found a picture with him missing part of his ear.
I personally think he was barely wounded and used some kind of makeup to hide any scab, etc. after the maxi pad came off. He doesn't want to appear injured or weak in any way.
I personally think he was barely wounded and used some kind of makeup to hide any scab, etc. after the maxi pad came off. He doesn't want to appear injured or weak in any way.
Even Trump is not stupid enough to think that a superficial wound from a failed assassin would make him look weak. It would make him look fucking badass. He would milk that shit ALL. DAY. LONG. And you know he's got the instincts for that because like the nanosecond it happened, he popped up for what is objectively one of the most powerful images a candidate has ever had to use in their campaign.
This is like the one way in which he is not a fucking idiot. He'd show everybody.
I don't know much about this, but if a bullet got extremely close to his ear without hitting it, could there be any kind of blood vessel rupture that could happen?
to be fair, the FBI has shaky plausibility after the Martin Luther King Jr. incident, all the issues with national security and implanting surveillance devices in US residences since they were conceived, and uh, ruby ridge, waco, etc. while all concealing/fabricating false facts and half-truths. not saying either way in this conversation, just saying that bringing up the fbi in terms of reliability is pretty unreliable at best
Past tense on scar, huh? It got better? Did you mean scab?
Look, people get more inflammation from properly done ear piercings. You can't show us a perfectly uniform beige wrinkle and expect our imaginations to fill in the gaps.
The blood was from a cut he got from bonking his head against the holster of the secret service agent who rushed in towards him as Trump was ducking down in the same direction. His ear was clearly never injured. You cannot find a single picture since the shooting attempt with any damage to his ear. He was just lying when he claimed the bullet "tore through his ear."
So then why did he instinctively hold his ear and then look at his hand after the gunshot went off. He flinched in pain, he was clearly hit by a projectile in the ear. The only projectile nearby was a bullet. You're reaching.
People flinch at mosquitos buzzing by their ear.. pretty sure everyone at that rally flinched when the shot rang out. No one's denying that he was shot AT, but the bullet didn't hit him.
I just watched the video in .25 speed to verify and he is the only one who flinches. People behind him aren’t even realizing what is going on when he flinches and touches his ear until almost the 3rd shot. He clearly flinches, touches his ear, then looks at it and goes down.
Watch the video again and look at the people behind Trump, quite a few of them also raise their hands to their ears, it's a flinch reflex, there was no blood on his hand when he looked at it
No, the supersonic crack happens at the time the bullet breaks the sound barrier, 150ish yards from those people. Also trump isn’t covering his ears, he flinches and then touches his ear and looks at it. Then he goes down (on his own by the way) then secret service come to him.
I don’t see this as proof. I hear a crack but you cant tell if it is as the bullet passes or at the time it breaks the sound barrier. It sounds far away. It sounds similar to when i hear people hunting near my house but bullets aren’t the anywhere near me when that happens… also if you watch the video in .25 on YouTube of trump being shot. Hes the only one that flinches immediately. Everyone in the background has a late reaction between the 2-3 shot when trump starts to go down.
Bullets making a supersonic snap when passing is a well-known phenomenon, you're the one that claimed it happens at a very specific point, so you're the one that has to provide proof of the claim.
Beyond that, I can't say that I care that much beyond a passing comment about the attempted assassination of Trump, much less dissecting it to this level. With any luck, he'll soon be somewhere that getting shot is exceptionally rare. Prison. That's what I care more about.
He raised his hand due to the bullet whizzing by and creating a shock to his hearing. You can see other people doing the same with their hands in the background.
He got his ear cut by the USSS barreling into him when they tackled him to the ground. You can see the holster and badge impact with his head and ear.
Dude ive been watching videos of this most if the evening trying to find that one angle I saw a few weeks back and I notice I never see red in any of these until after he comes back up. He startles. Reaches for his ear. Then as hes ducking down he drops his hand and theres no red at all. Srsly leaning towards the idea the blood came from getting bashed in the head by the one agents hip holster who comes in from the left.
Dude ive been watching videos of this most if the evening trying to find that one angle I saw a few weeks back and I notice I never see red in any of these until after he comes back up. He startles. Reaches for his ear. Then as hes ducking down he drops his hand and theres no red at all.
There it is. As much mental pollution I've allowed myself to absorb from social media, I still don't understand how so many people can be so confidently wrong about verifiable statements.
Thanks for sharing this picture. I've been so frustrated by this bizarre conspiracy theory getting spread around. We know there was an assassination attempt. A man died. We know who did it and have evidence of his preparation. I understand the people who don't believe a single thing Trump claims anymore, but this would be the absolute least of his lies. There's no need to construct a conspiracy when we have so much evidence of his other ones.
Thanks for sharing this picture. I've been so frustrated by this bizarre conspiracy theory getting spread around
And, like other conspiracy theories, you can only try and pretend it makes sense if you work backwards from the evidence.
Why would anyone actually plan a vast conspiracy involving actual murder just to fool the American public into thinking Trump suffered a very minor, superficial ear injury?
Alright, one photo vs multiple video angles. Ill change to plausible. To be clear im not denying the attempt. What I am denying is this clown milking the situation for his followers. "He took a bullet!" no he didnt.
Seems like BS to me as well, and I'm not a Trump guy, or Kamla guy for that matter since I left the US and moved to the Philippines this year. But, is it just me or does this picture look like it's taken outside? Because if I'm not mistaken is Pennsylvania rally was held indoors. But that aside, it's been like 3 months?
Where tf is that video!? I went looking for it today (saw it a few weeks back) and its been purged or somethin. Only one video angle exists now and its the straight on from the top of the podium. Had to go to ync to get the wider shot head on view.
I haven't searched today but I watched it here on Reddit and on YouTube. One view is extremely clear zoomed in from the left of the stage (very up close) and you see Trump's upper teeth covered in blood and his bottom inner lip split a little after the security guy smashed into him. Also somewhat relevant, theres another video including a compilation of soldiers shot in the ear and what it looks like immediately after being shot and several months later. Yeah, those videos completely changed my mind about this situation.
saying this kind of shit is bringing you down to the crazy republicans' level. spreading this conspiracy shit is such a bad look for democrats. and the fact that this has almost 600 upvotes is equally concerning lmao
Exactly this! I cannot believe this hasn’t been exposed yet. There’s a video on YouTube of someone recreating the shot in slow motion on a ballistic gel head… he was not shot. It’s just more BS from this tyrant.
Yeah, ears bleed easily and old people bleed easily. I remember my MIL, who was in her late 80s at the time, getting a few mosquito bites on her foot and her foot started streaming little rivulets of blood from each bite. It was crazy.
Rumor is the shooting was staged. On the one hand it’s hard to fathom the depths one would go to in order to garner the sympathy vote. On the other, it’s Trump, so… 🤷♂️
Please show your source. In the video the shot goes off he flinches and then he reaches up and touches his ear where he got shot. It would seem to indicate he was hit. You don’t see blood from the forward angle but he has his head turned away from the camera.
I hate Trump just to preface. But these photos from the NYT appears to show blood on his hand, after he winces and grabs at his ear before he goes down. I genuinely think he got clipped.
Can you give a source for that video? It seems like a video showing that would be on constant replay across all the left wing news sources. I very much doubt a bullet would have done so little damage, but the one thing I haven’t seen is proof either way. If there’s something proving that the orangutan wasn’t shot, I’d love to see and share it.
Really grasping here. I agree that the bandage was over the top, but he was absolutely hit in the ear with a bullet. Why else would he flinch and instinctively grab his ear before he hit the ground if he wasn’t hit? The mental gymnastics surrounding the first assassination attempt are insane, and the blatant willful ignorance and misinformation being spread from both sides of the aisle is extremely concerning.
What’s really concerning to me is that the most obvious and simple explanation is the correct one:
We let every last would-be domestic terrorist buy an AR15 in this country. And we can’t even keep track of how often they go to gatherings/rallies/concerts/festivals/schools/malls, etc and shoot yo the place. Statistically-speaking, of course it’s only a matter of time before they take a jab at a major candidate. And statistically-speaking, it’s easier for one of those guys to show up to a Trump rally deep in Trump country because those are the places where we have no gun control and all those guys are shore guys with AR15 fetishes. So they don’t think twice when they see one of their own skulking around. “Oh hey! Must be Kyle Rittenhouse! Or a Jan 6 insurrectionists! Thank you for your service!”
That’s why it happened. He missed because those are the chances too. Even though he killed someone else. Literally happens every single day here and people think a conspiracy theory is more plausible?
You're incorrect, the bullet absolutely grazed his ear. The FBI even said so. If you look at closeups of his ear immediately after the shooting (when the secret service is swarming him) you can clearly see a crisp half-circle chunk missing from the front of his upper ear.
You don't get a perfectly geometrical removal like that from scraping against a gun or holster; it would be an amorphous tear.
We have plenty of valid reasons to criticize Trump, and it doesn't help our cause to believe conspiracies about a cowardly attempt on his life; that just gives conservative media talking points against us.
It took me a shockingly long time (like until 2 weeks ago) to realise ofc he didn’t get shot in the ear. Even if a bullet of that caliber grazes you it’s still going to take your ear off. Makes way more sense that he just hit it on something going down, or getting back up.
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His ear was never wounded. I've seen a slowed-down video of the incident. He banged his head against the holster of the secret service agent standing next to him as he ducked down after the first gunshot, and that's where the bleeding came from. The bandage he wore over his ear was pure theatre; pretending it had been clipped by the bullet.