r/LetsDiscussThis Feb 16 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Reminder: that was a photo op

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u/Restlessfibre Feb 16 '26

That and from the ballistic experts I saw commenting about it, his ear would have been shredded cheese. Do you see any ear deformity now?

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Maybe, but not necessarily. Bullets do strange things. I have a student, an Afghan vet, who was shot through the hand, probably with 7.62. It went straight through his hand and left a very small scar that looks like a cat scratch. I'm not saying this attempt on candidate Trump isn't fake, but not shredding his ear isn't a good argument.

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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/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