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That bloodied ear is probably his red carpet right into the white house.

The shooter barely missed Trump and finished off Biden.

I have a feeling that this is only going to piss off MAGA fascists so much that they'll be open to using more violence to achieve their goals.

And the US clown show kicks into overdrive. The trapeze artists are flying doing all sorts of backflips while the jugglers are on a unicycle riding the high wire. It's going to be an entertaining rest of the year if nothing else.

I won't discount the possibility that it's staged, but this one doesn't ring that bell for me.

It's very possible that some liberal with a rifle and a dream thought he'd become a hero. Given the media coverage that Trump gets from the """left""", it's most likely that he's just the victim of someone who lost the mental health battle.

By all accounts, he had to have been actually injured based on the wound and the blood pattern. More than what a razor blade could do. As well, Trump would've needed to make the incision himself. It's extremely unlikely that he would've agreed to do something like this while he's already leading in the polls and doesn't need a stunt.

His reaction is also normal for someone who has just been grazed by a bullet. The first thing our body will do in an extreme situation is fill our brain with adrenaline, numbing pain. It's well documented that soldiers could be shot more than once in combat before fully realizing what's happened, this is even more true for grazes. An injury like this won't be fatal, and won't cause any long-term damage. His ear will get patched up, and he'll be back to normal with nothing but a scar and possible mental anguish.

And I'd like to close with a personal gripe, I'm seeing way too many people who aren't big into marksmanship not understanding why the shot missed. The head is a target the size of a cantaloupe, and a man like Trump never stops moving. From the noise of the rounds in the footage, I estimate a minimum distance of 150m. That is a damn difficult shot to make, of course it's going to miss. Then factor in that the shooter took (I counted but could be wrong) three shots. After that first round, it gets significantly harder to keep the rifle on target. The two follow-up shots might as well have been directed at random. Media has made so many people believe that hitting shots like that is easy, but it really isn't. Please stop with this one.

Why'd the fucker miss? Several shots. SMH

Next debate Biden should put some bottle caps on his shoes and occasionally stomp to see what happens.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5 AP reports the gunman was killed and an attendee was killed. If we get reasonable answers for who they were it's safe to say it wasn't staged.

Fucking practice better if you're gonna do this. Shesh you only get one attempt...

Chat this is what adventurism looks like

Browsing reactionary spaces, seems they're trying to brew the theory that the secret service purposefully let this happen, or though sheer incompetence. Wait a week and they'll start saying the secret service was compromised by Biden.

holy shit lmao

staged

i don't think so

suspicious

surely it is

I know that because this is his induction to the white house we want to think that this was somehow staged, but we have to look at the facts and use reason. Whatever the gunman's motives might have been they were 100% trying to headshot Trump. And almost succeeded at that.

He does not look good.

Nevermind, apparently it grazed him and took off a part of his ear.

with a photo like this I can't believe this wasn't staged

footage of the shot, shots are fired at around 8 minutes.

He looks alright after he gets up, just a little dazed. Doubt he'll die from this. Could even have been staged, but I recommend waiting for more info before speculating too hard.

Edit: some sources saying he was hit by glass shrapnel from a teleprompter rather than the bullet.

I can't imagine a teleprompter hitting him from that angle, so it must be some other glass object (or, in the staged theory, blading). But it tracks with the blood pattern on his cheek that could be a scratch rather than a splatter. Either way, it's funny how he's immediately lying about "feeling the bullet" on his social media.

Who the hell benefits from this other than his fanatics? I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be staged, and I'd be even less surprised if his supporters didn't care it wasn't real.

EDIT: I concede it was almost certainly a real attack, and probably by someone convinced they could save the country by killing him. I just wasn't going to be surprised if it turned out to be staged. I wish it had been; this is going to get the fanatics frothing at the mouth. They're already saying he was saved by God to stop the "leftists".

So basically Trump’s election is guaranteed. Not even a question, a declaration.

Hiding a small razor blade in a hat or hand is a pretty common pro wrestling trick to fake a bloody injury. Don't know how much I believe this is a real attack. He seems way to ok with things after an attempted assassination and gets up really fast for no confirmation they caught the shooter.

I mean it COULD be a real attempt, but I'm a skeptic