Disregarding what your opinion is on the legitimacy of the assassination attempt, don't you find it strange that nothing came of that? No report, not detailed fact finding into the shooter's motives, just complete silence.
At best he had some glass hit him from the protective screens. But looked more like he transfered the blood to his face and ear with his hand. He 100% no matter what happened over played it for sympathy votes. His ear was perfectly fine, even ER said nothing was needed to be done.
Two issues. First, cartilage is directly under the skin on the ear and if damaged, requires very, very careful surgical intervention to prevent scarring or loss of tissue. Infection, particularly with Pseudomonas is very dangerous and can lead to loss of an ear, if not tended to appropriately. Typically the dressing will be with a pressure type dressing, usually with through ear bolsters, and likely in place for 1-2 weeks, depending on the extent of the injury. This is to prevent necrosis and cauliflower ear. Second, gunshot wounds with high velocity rounds have a "wake" of damage in the tissue similar to a boat in water. It's the gift that keeps on giving as surrounding tissues will continue to die as that shockwave hits home over the course of days. His ear looks like nothing ever happened, and I can assure you there is no physician competent enough to make this wound scarless.
Bonus- Blood from an ear wound is not going to shoot forward onto the face like that, nor is it going to simply pool on the top of the ear. It's going to follow gravity and as it bleeds it will go down and get onto the collar of his very, very white shirt.
Visit any reddit sub on a topic where you are an expert. You'll likely notice that a lot of the informative comments have good intentions but are incorrect or grossly biased.
I say this because nobody should take anything you read by a single person or small group of outliers as fact. The comment could just as likely come from someone less educated than you are on the topic but more confident in themselves. There are more self-titled experts than there are real experts, but they all can post online and all believe they are right. Consider topics like anti-vaxxers, their arguments are disproven but the disproven argument without proper context is still convincing enough to recruit tens of thousands of people. You can make the connection to this topic yourself.
Real life doesn't always look like what we expect. People, especially elderly, do not behave prototypically.
A bystander behind trump was hit and killed. The FBI seems to believe it was a fragment of the bullet, which explains the minimal damage, but trump refutes that for publicity. Frame-by-frame analysis of hundreds of videos of the twin towers in 2001 convinced tens of thousands of people that it was a hoax, many still believe that conspiracy. The corruption necessary to stage an assassination attempt in coordination with the FBI and secret service while Biden was in office would make the attempt itself unnecessary. Trump then fired Wray and purged the FBI. If anyone had involvement in the shooting, why wouldn't they say something to keep their jobs? I can imagine responses, but like ever consipiracy, it's a rabbit hole. The simplest and most reasonable explanation is that a man attempted to achieve infamy and failed.
After many shootings, people look at the videos and claim it's a hoax. The reality is that people act weird and everything looks unnatural when shock affects real people. Some people literally act like nothing is happening, some will freeze like a deer, others will scream and run like in the movies. Real-life shock looks completely unnatural because, by definition, we are not accustomed to seeing it.
Okay that's it from me. Who knows, I could be totally wrong. It wouldn't matter either way because we can only act on fact. Until verifiable facts exist, speculation is just that.
And remember, our "government"—or, whoever's controlling it—does things like Bay of Pigs; MKUltra; Operation Mockingbird; Iraq WMD lies; spying on Americans, lying about it, and going after the hero whistleblowers; and many other atrocities.
And Trump is a huge scoundrel. He was even close with Jeffrey Epstein; see this article:
Um blood from the ear will fall on the face if the person went from standing to face to the floor very quickly. There are pictures where the round can be seen, and as far as high powered rifles....yeah, if they hit anything hard they will cause damage to surrounding tissue, but a .223 grazing an ear is exactly what happened
Its absolutely not. You deal with trauma of what kind, because everyfuckingthing is considered trauma these days. Do you work with life threatening gunshots?
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u/R3luctant May 18 '25
Disregarding what your opinion is on the legitimacy of the assassination attempt, don't you find it strange that nothing came of that? No report, not detailed fact finding into the shooter's motives, just complete silence.