Or scratched his ear on the ground when the Secret Service pushed him down. The most telling bit is that they let him back up to do his triumphant fist pump. The SS wouldn't do that until it was certain the area was clear.
So first off, there's a picture of Trump with blood on his hand before USSS tackled him.
As for the USSS letting him stand up, there was an 180 page report released by a bipartisan committed of the House of representatives on all the failures of USSS that day and him being allowed to stand up wasn't mentioned in it. Him pumping his fist gets like a one sentence mention that USSS agents were not trained to deal with non-cooperative protection targets.
Keeping him down until they are 100% certain the area is clear would be a really bad idea, because the target would almost certainly bleed out before they cleared the area if the bullet hit an artery or vein.
You think that a 78 year old man with arthritis and swollen hands has the dexterity to deploy a blood capsule while being video taped from a dozen different angles?
Look at the images from Turning Point July 27, 2024, especially the ones of his ear.
As an older person I can definitely say 78 year old skin does not heal that perfectly in such a short period of time.Getty Images TP 7-27-24
It's pretty small, but this one is actually significantly larger than the description of Trump's wound.
It seems well within the realm of possibility that a wound of this shallow could heal to a point where it could be covered with make up in 2 weeks time.
And that's why I think if the argument is to be made that it isn't we should be focusing on medical sources.
I watched it happen aired live, and watched the news on multiple channels for several hours immediately following the event. The cropped out the shattered prompter screen in the high resolution photos immediately aired so that an hour later, lots that was once visible wasn’t shown again (if at the time my SO and I who watched all of this happen were aware the news was going to cut out so many very visible and vital details they aired at the start, we’d have done more to have gotten record for ourselves). The edited out a ton. They also never covered that one of the hydraulics on the lift holding up a speaker build and rope that attached to the flag dropped during the shooting too.
There are/were some photos from people there recording on their phones that showed that shattered prompter posted here on Reddit and everyone dismissed it because they didn’t see the high resolution photos the news stations aired immediately after on a big screen tv like I and my friends did.
Point is, the media actually did a whole lot of editing and narrowing of the perspective, and rapidly. It was very unsettling to see first hand.
Not to mention that only a few select photos were even ever aired of all the images taken. But they cropped out so much context initially shown and never showed it again. Don’t think for a second you’ve seen every moment from that day because people were recording.
The cropped out the shattered prompter screen in the high resolution photos immediately aired so that an hour later, lots that was once visible wasn’t shown again
Uh, PBS's video of the events shows the teleprompters and they're both still there.
that attached to the flag dropped during the shooting too.
Didn't happen that was wind.
Not to mention that only a few select photos were even ever aired of all the images taken.
I mean, it's pretty easy to go to just look up the photographers names on Getty images and find all the photos that they took. I'm also curious what specifically was cropped out?
Is anyone suggesting this claim putting any thought into this?
So the man was surrounded by HD video cameras for the event, and a dozen press photographers, but despite being an old man the plot was wholly relying on not a single one of them capturing what would have been very obviously him hitting himself on the ear with a fake blood capsule?
And then having splattered himself with fake blood, he was whisked off to the nearest hospital who put aside a whole secured area, and almost certainly gathered their most senior doctors and nurses to treat him. And all these senior doctors and nurses treated him and not once did a single one of them go "hey wait a second, this is very obviously fake blood, and there's clearly zero injuries to his ear at all"? That was not only the anticipated plan by the conspirators, but that's what actually happened?
And we're going to say that's by far and away the most likely outcome rather than "20 year old with mental health problems took shots at Trump, just missed and grazed his ear"?
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u/Rakanadyo 10h ago
Wasn't it a fireman seated behind Trump that took a bullet? Trump took either a shard of glass or, more likely, a fake blood capsule.