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Speculation Swirls About What Hit Trump. An Analysis Suggests It was a Bullet

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/politics/trump-shooter-bullet-trajectory-ear.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E0.CgWC.4nNXv_RbNm38&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

This is a response to a Talking Points Memo series on the lack of transparency from the Trump campaign

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People seem to be making a lot of distinction about whether it was the bullet or shrapnel from something the bullet hit. I don’t see how it matters. Someone took a shot at him and got close enough that his ear got tagged. I hate the guy, but this is an academic distinction that doesn’t really matter.

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    • revelrous@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just a play to keep it in the news cycle longer.

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    • halloween_spookster@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My personal conspiracy theory is that he wasn’t hit by anything but instead a secret service agent accidentally hurt his ear when they piled on top of him.

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    • faltryka@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Completely agree. This distinction is immaterial in anyway other than serving up fuel to fanatics who will poorly represent his dissenters.

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      • Today@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It doesn’t matter. Bullets are scary. Shrapnel is scary. What’s really ridiculous is his refusal to participate in the investigation. He turned a nothing into a something.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image recovered of what actually hit Trump.

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  • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    inb4 he had ketchup in his pocket from a hamberder, got it on his hands and then swatted a fly on his ear

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think it was that, but it was unclear whether he had been grazed by a bullet or hit by a piece of shrapnel generated when a bullet hit an object near him, and the campaign was far from transparent about it

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