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Might be best for mods to lock this post at this point (is that a thing on Lemmy?) because this story is basically wrapped. The FBI says a bullet caused some ear damage. Maybe it was bullet shrapnel from a ricochet or something like that, but later photos show the teleprompters in-tact so it wasn’t shards of glass from those. Trump’s usage of the bandage (and the assassination attempt) as symbols and political tools has been discussed at length and I don’t think conspiratorial thinking beyond that is very productive. Pete Souza took his own account down after getting a lot of harassment, so no further conspiracies are needed regarding X-formerly-known-as-Twitter at this time.
A photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taken on Saturday without his ear bandage has sparked a wave of speculation.
The image, taken by Alex Brandon of the Associated Press on July 27 and shared by photojournalist Pete Souza on X, formerly Twitter, shows Trump walking up an airplane staircase with an apparently fully healed ear wound just weeks after he was shot with a high-powered rifle.
Souza, known for his tenure as the chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, posted Brandon’s photo on his now-deactivated X account on Saturday, writing, “AP photo this morning. Look closely at his ear that was ‘hit’ by a bullet from an AR-15 assault rifle.”
Souza’s profile, @PeteSouza, which had over 200,000 followers, now reads, “This account doesn’t exist, try searching for another,” implying that he has deleted or deactivated it. If he had been banned, it would read, “Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.I still expect Trump’s ear wound appearance was fixed with cosmetics, I mean why wouldn’t they? He doesn’t want to look like Frankenstein. I got downvoted to hell in another thread for posting that though.
That was my first thought too. Makeup to cover it up. I didn’t know why you’d be DVed, except my Trump Cultists maybe. As if he’s not always caked in bronzer as is. Guys can wear makeup - every actor in Hollywood does, at the very least.
Why wouldn’t they? Because they want to sell the strong tin leader narrative. I’m surprised he took the bandage off. I’m surprised he isn’t wearing a T-shirt with his little PR photo tiny-handed fist in the air. I’m sure he asks his sycophants if it looked more manly than the photo of shirtless Putin riding a stallion.
He is incredibly vain.
He’s a real boy now.
Because it will raise eyebrows
Are you insane? There is no way Trump would pass up that sort of imagery.
No, trump is vain and an attention seeker. Hed rather talk about the ear while looking perfect. (He also has a distorted self-image but that’s another thing)
I do not agree. I think he see it a sign of weakness. He wants everything to look perfect, there are no way he want to look week.
Since when are scars a sign of weakness. They scream courage or bravery to me
He literally made fun of a war prisoner because he got caught! We are talking a bout trump here.
Fair enough…
He could have just kept wearing the bandage, if he wanted that.
I was fully expecting the bandage to stay on for months.
But you can’t expect anything from the guy, so…
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he forgot he got shot.
People started making fun of him for it. He is fragile enough that being called out for his sanitary pad ear would probably bother him.
Musk can and will have his database team wipe accounts and posts from behind the scenes without making it appear like the user was banned.
My eyebrows… they are indeed raised
Has it been determined that he most likely was hit by a bullet vs. shrapnel?
The FBI said it was a bullet.
Not sure why this was downvoted. That’s what I heard too. FBI said it was a bullet or bullet fragment. They don’t seem to think it’s from something else like teleprompter glass. He probably just barely got hit with a tiny fragment.
There was an article 3/4 days ago in a debreif the FBI said they don’t believe it was a bullet and was most likely shrapnel but they didn’t confirm either.
That’s exactly what I heard, and haven’t heard anything to contradict it.
I mean, sure. He’s rich. He probably got plastic surgery or something to fix his ear.
FAKE LOBES!
Not having the lobes for commerce, disappointing.
I get your point, but I feel obligated to point out it wasn’t his lobe that was shot. The part that was shot is called the helix.
“Fake Helix” sounds like an airport spy novel from the 90s.
I genuinely, since the day it happened, have not believed that Trump was shot.
I watched over and over again and I swear what I saw was WWE theatre.
I would have believed an attempt on his life, from someone anywhere on the Political spectrum (I even said this before info about the shooter came out).
However, I don’t believe Trump. He has had a white mark on his ear for years. The “scab” that he’s playing off as a wound has been there for years.
He is the liar/the first beast!
Two people died. It’s asinine to ignore that and let your desire to distrust trump metastasize into conspiracy theories.
It’s conspiracy theories like the Obama birther movement that got us into this situation. So just zip it.
He was shot at, the bullet grazed his ear leaving very little substantial damage. We don’t need leftwing misinformation any more than we need rightwing misinformation.
Let’s be better than that, AND let’s not bring that sort of vibe onto Lemmy. Because I guarantee you Russia and other foreign state actors are looking to promote misinformation this election season as they do any other. Lemmy don’t need that stuff.
Look, a bullet from an AR-15 passing that close to your head is going to create a shockwave sufficient enough to cause permanent hearing damage and probably a minor concussion.
If it connected with his flesh, even just a “graze”, it would have done a lot more damage, and wouldn’t be completely healed so quickly.
There’s plenty of evidence of dishonesty here. Trump, at least to some extent, is playing this event up. For example, if the damage to his ear was this minor, why has he been wearing a huge obvious bandage over his whole ear? That alone shows some degree of performance here, the question is exactly how much of this was a performance.
It’s conspiracy theories like the Obama birther movement that got us into this situation. So just zip it.
Accusing a well know liar of lying is nowhere near the same as that racist smear campaign, and you fucking know it. Zip it.
let’s not bring that sort of vibe onto Lemmy. Because I guarantee you Russia and other foreign state actors are looking to promote misinformation
“Let’s not bring conspiracy energy to Lemmy” Immediately goes full Russiagate
“Young Fox” great name, it’s what the “T” in “tgs” stands for.
This is my point. I’ve grieved for those dead at the event. I believe they were killed.
I don’t believe Trump was shot and so I come to the conclusion he has planned this entire thing. This is what I’ve come to expect from Trump in his reach for Power.
If I am wrong, I’m sorry and willing to admit being wrong.
However, the reason I would be wrong is because Trump is a liar.
The word believe signals “conspiracy theorist”. “Suspect” is better if there is doubt.
We know Trump is a liar. He could have released medical records, but he didn’t. So everyone should be suspecting he is still lying about everything, whenever it’s convenient. As for what, you decide. From the start, we knew shrapnel or gear from his bodyguards were possibilities. Those are still on the table.
Can you imagine how it would have been if instead of grandstanding, he would have immediately offered support for the deceased’s families? If he’s written off the wound as a scratch from the scuffle, instead of necessarily a bullet wound? That would have been a small positive end to a tragic situation. Instead we have reality. Meh.
Oh yes. Certainly be very suspicious of Trump faking injury (or at least exaggerating).
My point is “believe” implies you’ve 100% made up your mind.
the earth trembles and the sky parts at the thunderous roar of the might ar15.
Conspiracies are cool, but don’t just make shit up.
This is the exact cockhead bullshit I’m talking about, coming online and pretending to be a ballistics expert…
As for saying I’m spreading some Russiagate nonsense, AP NEWS, bitch:
So AP news publishes a story where literally every source is some 3-letter agency, with the message “even your fellow Americans are Russian Propagandists”, and you’re not even a little bit critical because…
checks notes
AP NEWS, bitch
huh, well, I can’t say I was expecting your critical thinking skills to be good, but somehow I’m still disappointed.
Says the guy arguing the Trump shooting was a political stunt.
…which by the way, just keeps it in the media cycle and makes it seem like people give a shit about Trump.
The conservatives were getting upset that the story went away so fast, the dumb asses like you bring it back to be all “Look at his ear!”
So thanks for keeping politics stupid.
Look, a bullet from an AR-15 passing that close to your head is going to create a shockwave sufficient enough to cause permanent hearing damage and probably a minor concussion.
This is absolutely false. A .50 cal can go right by your head, and as long as it doesn’t contact, your head, you’ll be fine, possibly with some hearing damage. 5.56 is a lot smaller than that.
I see it as asinine to believe that Trump wouldn’t have his own supporters killed.
You bring up Russia but false flags are right out of the Pig Putins Book. A man with much praise from Trump.
I won’t zip it because I don’t believe he was shot. Until he admits otherwise, I am under the belief that he had his own supporter killed to use their names as a Martyr and say he took a bullet for America
The thing is he couldn’t even wear the Pressure Bandage for more than one night at the RNC. He won’t even pretend he has a boo boo for America.
He is the liar
Edit. Let me add that since bringing this up I realized Trump met with a Putin puppet 2 days before shooting.
You’re a conspiracy theorists idiot then. As bad as any of the “left wing are cultural marxist elites running Capitalism” people.
Because you’re also operating on political assumptions rather than what’s know.
The FBI has said he was shot, they will have brought in crime scene detectives and ballistics experts and mapped the trajectory of the bullet already, and they’ve ALREADY SAID he was shot. But stand back everyone “some guy on the internet” has the real facts!
You can’t trust the FBI and US officials - because u/tgs1999 has decided they know more about it!
It’s idiotic conspiracy mongering where it’s not needed.
Call me what you will but I still don’t believe he was shot from the second i saw the video. I won’t be quiet about that the way my mother was never quiet about Kennedys assissination in Dallas.
I’m a conspiracy theorists they way my mother was a conspiracy theorists about a different conspiracy theory.
…do you at least get that backing a conspiracy theory up with reference to another conspiracy theory… And a family tradition, isn’t a rational or reasonable argument to present to others.
Like, I don’t care if your family believes in Gremlins or Dragons, but that’s not a reason to bother other people about it. Believe what you like, but not expect others to consider “conspiracy theories backed by other conspiracy theories” as a valid approach to reality.
Trump is a liar no conspiracy there.
Kennedys assassination is no conspiracy either. It’s been proven and admitted to not be what was stated by the FBI.
To act like there is no real “conspiracy” in reality is not reality.
You can’t trust the FBI and US officials
This is true though, but I don’t see any reason they would lie about this
Your tone is so ignorant, like there is no way you are wrong.
Did it not occur to people it was both, he was infact shot at, but it was shrapnel that hit him.
Either way, you are not correct and your attitude is shit. Get off your high horse.
Stuff on your face and head bleeds a lot. It probably just barely grazed it.
He could be on blood thinners too.
Good point, all that McDonald’s isn’t good.
I mean just logically McD’s thickens & clogs the blood. It’s fucking horrible. I’ve donated plasma & it pulls the fat right out of your blood, it can clog the filter. Perhaps Trump can survive any superficial wound, because he eats so much McD’s the wound just seals shortly after it’s inflicted. Like a white trash Wolverine.
Question is, are the blood thinners powerful enough to counteract the McD’s & their artery clogging effects? 🤔
Trump still believes his birther bullshit. His base still believes his birther bullshit.
Don’t act like it’s not possible for trump to have faked an assassination attempt as a means to seize power.
It fits his modus operandi. It fits the evidence I see.
The fact 2 people died, while sad, is a toll I believe trump would gladly pay for a chance at acting as Putin’s puppet as POTUS.
The most likely thing is it was a real attempt on his life, but he just got a scratch from some shrapnel or glass and was playing it up until he got bored of it.
A little bit before the attempt, people were discussing the testimony surrounding a dropped case against him, the woman recounted being 13 and was orally raped by Trump in '94. She refused to continue to testify after receiving death threats or something.
So this guy might have just been playing some pedo hunter fantasy out. He doesn’t have an online presence, if he did there would be some indication of being recruited if that was the case.
I’ve seen a lot of spinals, dude… And this guy’s a fake. A fucking gold bricker.
Stay away from me, mister !
A bit conspiratorial. A very minor gunshot wound can heal within weeks according to Google, and the ear has so many bits in it which seem to pop and make a lot of blood easily enough. You even saw the blood on the live footage as well as the photos taken, so I don’t see how he could have faked it
Because fake blood doesn’t exist right?
How’d he get it on so quickly?
I also dont believe it was faked. Dude got hit with something , but he went down for a couple seconds. More than enough time for a blood pill or a blade job. Wrestling has taught us it can be super quick.
Wouldn’t the hospital be able to tell, though?
Let’s see the medical report.
I demand to see the long-form medical report! The earer movement cannot be stopped!
Would the hospital be able to tell us either way?
Fair point
Anyone else just kind of forget about the assassination attempt? I guess that goes in line with Trump always doing new bullshit that nothing sticks, it’s become so common that even the assassination attempt doesn’t really feel notable already.
It was very anti cliamactic.
Couldn’t it just be a dumb and simple reason like : the picture is reversed and it’s showing the left ear ?
I’m pretty sure a press photographer from AP knows which way around a photo is.
Exactly, so I’m pretty sure a professional photographer knows which way to orient a photo to share their vision, when Eliott Erwin crops a picture of a dog with its owner, it’s not at random, there are deliberate choices made before publishing, the photographer could have taken a picture of the subject on their left side, and reversed the picture to show them walking towards the right to achieve whatever vision they had
It’s bad journalistic practice to alter photos, period. Flipping horizontally is not allowed. Cropping, maybe. Complete flip? Negative.
welcome to real world, representative of generation z.
this is exactly why you should get your news from respectable news medium, not tiktok.
respectable medium has journalistic standards it adheres to, as opposed to just any random person on the internet, and its goal is to pass (well, sell) the news, not “share their vision”.
sharing your vision is happening in opinion pieces, these are clearly marked as not to be confused with news segment (and you shouldn’t lie there as well).
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This sounds awfully condescending but still, thanks for all those details !
Trump’s hair is always parted the same direction, from Trump’s right to Trump’s left.
Trump has an asymmetrical hair-style, making it 100% sure that this is a picture of the correct ear.
Also this whole thread is 48 hours old repost, there is like million other photos since then…
Good catch thank you !
The combover would be going the other direction then.
That should be verifiable. Just check which side his flight’s exit ramp was on.
I’m 2 decades younger than Trump, got into a bike accident over a year ago, taking a deep scrape on my shin, and I still have a scar.
Look. Newsweek. People.
Here’s your headline: “Photo shows Trump lied about ear injury.” Just say what it is.
If he wants to prove there’s a hole he should just get a gauge for it. They could make it gold with a diamond T in the middle
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and you people must love how that boot tastes.
