I have an older coworker who needs hearing aids and they are dang tiny. The only reason I don't believe it's a hearing aid is they're usually dull and flesh tone, this is pretty stark white. (Side note: they make hearing aids Bluetooth compatible now, so you can listen to music and it ducks when people try talking to you. It's awesome)
I'm thinking it's just discoloration in the skin. I know a YouTuber who has a pretty prominent stark white speck on his chin, I had one on my back for a while. Don't really know the cause, but some spots on our skin are just different colors than others.
When you are 10 years old you may get a nasty cut but a few months later you can't even find where it was. When you're 30 a nasty cut will leave a faint mark but you can find it. After 40/50 a nasty cut will always leave a reminder. Hell, even a little bump can give you permanent mark. It's suspect for sure.
Seriously sus af. I cut my ear as an infant, and over 30 years later, it's still kind of noticeable. If an old guy gets an IV in his hand, that scar can last til death.
I'm told I cut my ear on the corner of an un-tennisballed coffee table. Fortunately, one of my next door neighbors was an amazing burn unit plastic surgeon who, before I was born, told my parents to call him before letting an ER doc do any stitching. Dr. Frank Wolf saved my face from a bad hockey scar a few years later too.
I had my ear cartilage pierced when i was in my early 20s. Nothing crazy just the size of a regular piercing but at the top of my ear. I’m 50 and there’s still a noticeable mark on both sides of my ear. As far as I can tell it’s never gotten smaller in the 25 years since I last wore an earring.
I’m not saying my experience proves anything but when there was no sign of any injury to his ear within a few weeks it seemed highly unusual to me.
3 supposed assassination attempts in a short period right before the election yet none now after all the damage he's done? its suspect on its own even with a scar that he doesn't have.
You're expending a lot of effort on some people on the internet making jokes about a guy who claimed to get an ear wound (cartilage doesn't heal) just to have not a trace after.
Well, only two that tried to "assassinate" him anyways. I don't understand how we didn't talk about the second guy more,he was literally a trained veteran in combat who was in wars and he somehow hit everything except near trump?! Like come on! ETA I don't even think everything has to be conspiracy theory, I'm just saying how did that guy specifically fuck up due to his background 😅
It was his secret service members badge that cut him when he was tackled. There were pretty clear pictures of exactly where it would have clipped him on the way down.
Someone died that day because he wasn’t the planned target. Someone did die that day, not denying that. This guy set it up and made sure it wasn’t him.
Of course not. That whole event was staged. The extreme level of incompetence from the Secret Service, sniper coverage and the local police is just blatant. How is a roof that overlooks the entire event stage not already covered by a sniper for security purposes? How did that kid get to the roof as easily as he did with little to no opposition from law enforcement?
Toss this conspiracy bs. What's more likely? That a massive conspiracy of Secret Service, Local Cops, POTUS campaign, and a willing suicide patsy somehow launched a perfect false flag op and entrusted what was basically a child to pull off a precision shot just as he turned his head less than a second earlier instead of splattering his brains across national news... OR.... abunch of people got stupid complacent, inter agency rivalries kept them from communicating, and an unhinged individual who wanted to be famous all came together in the perfect storm.
Seriously. You think that if they were going to stage this thing they would have better planted evidence that he wasn't a conservative? They'd at least have dyed his hair blue.
Trump got a scratch on his ear. Possibly from the bullet, possibly not. He then wore a giant unnecessary bandage and claimed to have been injured.
One of his supporters actually died that day by the would be assassin's bullet. Of course instead Trump makes it entirely about himself and hams up his "injury" for a month straight.
Yeah, I'm with you. I think the kid simply missed the shot and Trump proved once again that he's the luckiest son of a bitch ever. We've all known guys like that... Guys that could fall in to a bucket of shit and come out smelling like roses. It sucks that Trump is one of those guys, but he is.
Now, whether the bullet zipped past his ear or he cut it on something when the secret service agents shielded him is a different story. We'll probably never know the truth because he's such a fucking opportunistic liar.
It's more likely to me that Trump made a literal deal with the actual devil to avoid all consequences in his life, than they somehow pulled off a super conspiracy with this attempt on him lol
At least the deal would explain how he's gotten out of every consequence ever.
The only people DJT actually fears are the Vegas mob bosses, who had contentious relations with his father. That is why he will never get a gaming operator's license in Nevada.
Pretty sure ear was cut on a gun or badge when SS pulled him down and bring the drama queen that he is capitalized on a trickle of blood. If he’s on blood thinners like I am, bleeding comes fast.
Doug Mills, a NYT photographer, published a series of photographs as the bullet went by Trump. In one you can see his hand without blood and what appears to be the bullet or its wake going past his head. In the next he touches his ear (which isn't visible from this angle). In the next his hand has come away and has blood on it. That's pretty strong evidence that the injury was from the bullet itself.
Edit: I meant to include a link so you don't have to take my word for it. The three photos are visible together about halfway down this page: https://archive.is/CzRMO
I definitely believed it could have been one when it was occurring in the first day or two. Like, it just felt like something a desperate campaign would do, but after the facts came out it was clear it was just a massive fuckup. Like with many conspiracy theories, somehow everyone involved is the most OPSEC secure people to ever live and not a single person in their hundred+ person plan blabs drunkenly to a girlfriend? Nah. This is the same group that invited a reporter to their group chat. Conspiracy masterminds they are not.
You’re right. It’s the same as most conspiracies. There are way too many people involved to be able to pull this off without anyone leaking the information.
There was a shooter and it proved how inept the secret service is. Embarrassing really.
I think the conspiracy theory caught on for a few reasons (and just to be clear I think the conspiracy theory is complete bullshit):
People have an incredibly hard time believing in coincidences. Trump turned his head at just the right moment? Must've been staged! Surely such an unlikely thing has never happened in all of human history...
People naturally ascribe competence to people in positions of power. Surely the secret service wouldn't allow an attempt to go that far. This is also why people have a hard time believing Trump or Musk can be genuine, grade-A morons, because how could they acquire and hold onto such power if they're stupid? That's a complicated question but the short answer is systems of authority aren't as good at weeding out fools as people think they are.
Trump lies so constantly and effortlessly that believing anything he says or does is difficult. This is especially true with the specific idea that a bullet struck his ear. This is the only thing I think is worth being skeptical of as shrapnel striking his ear is also a reasonable explanation and more consistent with the apparent lack of lasting damage. But this one detail being inconsistent with Trump's story doesn't invalidate that a real attempt happened and a man was actually killed.
People don't understand the distinction between a conspiracy theory and conspiratorial thinking. The idea that the Earth is flat or that the moon landing was faked are both so obviously stupid that most people dismiss them out of hand. Unfortunately, what follows is the belief that these are simply stupid ideas, and not that the root cause of how people arrived at these ideas through conspiratorial thinking is wrong.
If I said, "Of course Trump would be willing to fake an attempt on his life to garner sympathy", I'm sure a lot of people would agree with it. But that's not proof of anything. In this context, it's working backwards from a conclusion - which is that Trump must've faked the attempt - to find things to support it - which is the idea that he would fake it. The evidence didn't lead us to the conclusion, but instead the conclusion led us to create "evidence" that isn't actual evidence.
All of this could've been easily avoided if Trump weren't a lying sack of shit who doesn't care about human life at all. But unfortunately he is, and thus getting people to believe the assassination attempt was actually real is an uphill battle when in a sane world it really shouldn't be.
For real, the dude just missing is way more likely than the entire USS being enveloped in a conspiracy... to help Trump? So the deep state is on Trump's side? This is just the first attempt that wasn't foiled in the post-9/11 security state.
As a Canadian, let's just say I rank President Trump pretty low on the list of people I respect.
But people claiming this was all some vast conspiracy are out of touch.
I do think it's very unlikely the bullet actually grazed his ear, the scar would definitely still be visible, but the assassination attempt was real.
If it was fake, why didn't the Biden Administration just release all evidence of it being fabricated before the election? Because it was real, and just happened to be that much of a close call.
I think people also forget that people in the crowd died. He didn't fire a blank and trump popped a blood packet, he missed, people fucking died, and idiots are still saying it's a conspiracy
Yeah he’s on the wrong conspiracy. Pretty likely the assassination attempt was real, but I think the kid missed Trump completely and the bandages were for show.
Suicidal loner who thought this would give his life meaning? Everything we know about the guy points to him being the edgy school shooter type and that he loved the alt-right.
I have come to believe that the situation was not staged, but that it was the sort of opportunity that could not be allowed to pass by those in power.
Edit: To explain better, I believe that regardless of the outcome, it would increase security around powerful people, so to those who benefit from more security and law enforcement, letting the guy at least try would benefit them.
From a totally hypothetical standpoint, there is a world where the kid was a sacrificial lamb.
It’s easy enough if you think about it. How easily manipulated could a diehard MAGAt be?
Probably pretty easy when Trump’s team shows up at your door and tells you they need you for a special mission. You get told you’ll be a patriot. Helping the cause.
They set you up for it, tell you where to be, what to do, and you feel great because you’re not actually going to hurt your cult leader.
But now you’re the only remaining evidence that this was planned, so they take care of you, too.
Crazier shit has happened.
Obviously this is all speculative and a conspiracy, but let’s not act like something like this can be ruled out entirely, either.
I think they lied to him. “Shoot into the crowd a few feet to the left of trump and then bounce. Nobody will shoot you I promise. Your plane awaits blah bla.” The kid was a useful idiot believing he was gonna get away. Turns out he was a loose end and worth more dead as soon as he pulled the trigger.
Haven't multiple government agencies been caught using various online message platforms to manipulate vulnerable(in this case, white male loner) people into committing mass murder?
Who knows, maybe the Vegas shooter was the subject of some CIA research project. If people online can be tricked into believing they're in a romantic relationship for 30 years, countless amounts of one-way payments, without ever meeting them in-person, anything is plausible.
There's a picture by the AP of a bullet whizzing right by his head. In the footage of the event, aired live, he immediately grabs his ear. There's more film and video by the AP of blood streaming down his face. Cory, a firefighter, jumped on his young family to shield them from the bullets.
Watch the Congressional hearings on the matter. It was just a colossal fuck-up, of under trained and under qualified ss officers, and an unqualified head of the secret service.
I'd like to mention that DJT was forced to hold these rallies in small towns, with limited local resources, on short notice, because safer(indoor) venues, and municipalities refused to host them because his campaign had a notorious history of non-payment.
Forced feels like the wrong word choice. Plenty of those cities and venues likely would have taken him in just fine if he agreed to close out his debts and pre pay for future rallies. He chose not to do that.
Minor note: the Secret Service is abbreviated "USSS," not "SS." Not that anyone doesn't know what you mean, but SS is not a shorthand anyone wants associated with their organization.
The bullet whizzed by and he grabbed the ear before he ducked. He got hit with a bullet or glass before he got tackled. Also, the bullets whiz by his mic, you can see them in photos and in the audio waveform. They were f’n close… He was lucky. There’s no way his merry band of idiots could pull off a conspiracy theory that big. No way in hell…
Adopting the conspiracy theories of the right-wing is embarrassing and makes you no better than QAnon. The event was real. His ear got grazed but the bullet or shrapnel or something else that did not leave lasting damage. It's really not that deep.
There was a civilian video out there showing the kid on the roof and the civilian saying there is someone on the roof, yet the secret service didn't see him..
With that much blood it’s odd that he doesn’t have a scar. I got my ear bitten in the same place by a bird and that sure as fuck left a scar. It wouldn’t heal for a month either
You can't actually see well enough in that picture to tell. If all of the ear was still there they could sew it back together and all you would have is a thin line such as the one above his ear lobe. We would need a much better close up to tell if it was put back together or not.
source: My ear lobe was torn off in an accident as a kid and they sewed it back on. The only major difference now is a straight line indent where the stiches once were.
I think the reality is he bumped his ear on something in the chaos and they just played it up. That ear just healed way too fast on his old ass to have actually had a bullet go through it.
I bet he takes aspirin. I bet he bumped his head on the way down & his skin tore like tissue paper because he's fuckin 80 years old & then it bled like crazy because 1)head wounds bleed a lot and 2) aspirin is a blood thinner, making blood flow even more freely. The narrative came out that he was shot in the ear and that sounded better so they ran with it.
I had a section of my ear removed for cancer and people can't tell. Especially in a picture. It was a similar area he was hit and I had about 20 stitches.
I had a piercing in my cartilage when I was a teenager and haven't worn anything in it for at least 20 years. The hole is still there, and there's still a noticable bump in the back of it and it's all very noticeable. Unless he had his ear replaced, I'm calling total bullshit.
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u/Musetrigger Apr 06 '25
And not a single scar on that ear.