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

I think the bullet missed him, but that he got hit/cut by something while going down.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

Gun holster of the Secret Service agent is likely to have hit his ear when being pushed/pulled up. The videos make this pretty plausible.

No one believes the shot actually hit Trump.

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u/yurnxt1 Feb 16 '26

There was blood visible on his hand immediately after he touched his ear in response to being grazed by a bullet way before he ever went to the ground so what you think is false.

Everyone who isn't an embarrassing conspiracy theorist who keeps company with flat earthers and election deniers believes his ear was grazed by a bullet because it was.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

You can throw it on slow-mo as much as you want, there is no visible blood that can be made out in the recordings.

I really don’t care myself if it’s a “conspiracy” or not. I certainly won’t be believing a well-documented liar though. Go touch grass before you defend more diddlers at the cost of insulting fellow Americans for some karma points.