• quinkin@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Does no one else think the idea of a false flag where you get your conspirator to shoot you in the ear, the slightest of shakes or a gust of wind away from fucking blowing your brains out, makes absolutely no sense?

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      2 months ago

      Shoot somebody in the crowd and add a separate convenient ear injury becomes a miraculous near miss

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        2 months ago

        You can see a chunk missing from the ear. Takes some Mike Tyson levels of effort to remove ear cartilage.

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      2 months ago

      The fact that bystanders were killed/injured kind of makes me doubt it was staged, as much as Trump would stage something like that, I am doubtful they did in this case.

      Supposedly they literally caught the bullet that struck him on camera:

      Which is wild, but not outside the realm of possibility. This photo was being reported on by NPR this morning, they had an interview with the photographer.