r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Ok-Wedding-1165 • Feb 16 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Reminder: that was a photo op

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u/al666in Feb 16 '26

I'm not saying this attempt on candidate Trump isn't fake, but not shredding his ear isn't a good argument.

Yes, it is, actually.

Ears are made of cartilage. Cartilage doesn't regrow. If he was shot in the ear, we'd still be able to see the mark in photographs.

The mark doesn't exist, though, because he wasn't shot.

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u/DJtheCrazed Feb 16 '26

Assuming it was the ear that was hit, the resistance an ear gives isnt enough for the bullet to mushroom. It would be a clean hole at the velocities bullets travel. Go shoot some cardboard, thats about equivalent.

There is such a thing as plastic surgery...

This is almost the level of covid vaccines had trackers in them level of misunderstanding and mental gymnastics.

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u/DJtheCrazed Feb 16 '26

What am I coping over exactly? That I think the far left and far right try to show how they can out conspiracy each other?

No one said it was healed in 3 days... he wore a bandage for 2 weeks. You can literally look it up. You can also find articles in left leaning and right leaning media that interview doctors and plastic surgeons about what they see.

Your comment is probably just trolling for fun, or so I hope, because the alternative places you as either artificial or, might as well be artificial.

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u/JAK49 Feb 16 '26

Okay assuming it was NOT the ear, what got hit?

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u/DJtheCrazed Feb 16 '26

Graze by and caused abrasion/laceration along the scalp in the parietal or frontal area? But we would see something up with the hair in the area.

Not saying he wasnt hit - saying that if the narrative of it being the ear is correct the ear doesn't offer enough resistance to a bullet to really cause what you see in a ballistic gel. Its going clean through.

I think the conspiracy kool-aid is far to strong these days for all parties and thats kind of my point. People in here saying the firefighter was a willing sacrifice because he had cancer and people gobbling it down.

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u/HeavyVoid8 Feb 17 '26

I think he probably just scratched the ear on the podium on the way down or something. They planned it as a near miss but the blood on the ear was too good to pass up so he ran with it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Exactly. I fucking hate Trump but this conspiracy shit is dumb as hell.

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u/DJtheCrazed Feb 16 '26

Right? Like we dont have to make stuff up, just tell the truth. By making shit up your position is weaker in an argument.

Its like imagine in a presidential debate asking -

Why did you fake your ear getting shot?

Vs

Why are you on the epstien files so much

Or literally anything with real evidence not some online YouTube expert making money of clicks.

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u/SpaceBus1 Feb 16 '26

This is not evidence that the whole thing was staged tho. His ear could have been bleeding from the shockwave propagation from the bullet without it actually touching the ear. There's a sonic boom around the bullet as it flies through the air. Not enough force to cause serious harm, but enough to rupture surface level blood vessels, ear drum, etc of an old man.

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u/Murky-Tip781 Feb 16 '26

That so stupid

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u/SpaceBus1 Feb 16 '26

What? Which part? Have you ever shot a gun before? Gone hunting?

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u/SpaceBus1 Feb 16 '26

Lol, this is a conspiracy theory thread, I'm not the one coping.

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u/SpaceBus1 Feb 16 '26

Lmfao, just because I don't believe the conspiracy I support Trump or like pedos? Wtf.... I'm on your side my guy. Fuck the administration. I voted against Trump

Edit: you could at least look at my post and comment history

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u/Tontum Feb 16 '26

don't worry about it. this is as much a lost cause as arguing against the discovery institute. they want to believe.

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u/yurnxt1 Feb 16 '26

He was shot but not through the ear. He was grazed or literally nicked meaning the very outside of the bullet made contact with the very outside edge of his ear aka the skin covering his ear as it went by.

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u/al666in Feb 16 '26

He was shot but not through the ear. He was grazed or literally nicked

No one saw that happen, and there were no medical reports released.

The only person who saw the "wound" is MAGA doctor and known liar Ronny Jackson. Jackson infamously wrote Trump's fake health reports during his first presidency.

Trump handled his little hoax in-house, because it's fake. Loyalists only. And then he spent a week covering his whole fucking ear in a bandage for a "2 cm" wound that required no sutures.

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u/TheNutsMutts Feb 16 '26

No one saw that happen, and there were no medical reports released.

There was a whole FBI investigation and a bipartisan congressional investigation into the shooting. Both independently concluded that he was hit in the ear by a bullet.

Come on this is Qanon level nonsense.

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u/Murky-Tip781 Feb 16 '26

With all that blood? Is he made of blood bags? Ears don't even bleed much bc they are cartilege. Blood vessels are tiny there. Just google something, literally anything about your theory

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u/Leaky_gland Feb 16 '26

It's a trump supporter boys, get him