Wray said it’s not clear yet whether it might have been shrapnel

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    His insecurity-induced attack is pretty much confirmation that the bullet didn’t touch him

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      Easy enough for him to prove it— just take the maxi pad off and show the public.

      But now he has a bigger problem, eventually he has to make his lie match his purported ear damage.

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          If these are the tacos we get, imagine how awesome the other timeline’s tacos must be!

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            The quality of the tacos is inversely tied to the quality of the timeline. The TNO timeline has some really fucking good tacos, but the one where Theodore Roosevelt shot Woodrow Wilson and won the presidency has fucking horrible tacos.

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      Wouldn’t be a big deal if he didn’t already have the whole storyline of Jesus personally coming down from the heavens to nudge poor ol’ Trump’s head out of the way so that we can witness the peace and prosperity of fascist rule under a convicted fraudster

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    I remember one of the first things I heard was that a bullet struck the teleprompter and he was hit by broken glass. I never heard anything about it after that, so I assumed it was just false; but it made a whole lot of sense at the time.

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      Some people speculated on this from day 1 when he wasn’t posing for photos with his “bullet wound.”

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        That’s because it looks staged. He also has been on WrestleMania a few times and is aware of how to stir up a crowd like that. It’s not that much of a stretch to say he had a good idea that the crowd would eat it up.

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          Nah, no need for a conspiracy theory. Also NYT photographer got a picture of a flying bullet.

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        There’s a single hole in one upper corner in a photo.

        But my casual impression is that screen was on the far side from the shooter, based on the direction of the sun. But I can’t be sure of that without more info.

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      I was on board with this theory for a minute, but I changed my mind.

      If you watch the video of the exact time this occurred, he definitely grabs at something on the side of his face that’s not visible to the camera with his right hand. For a brief moment, you can see that his hand is bloodless.

      However, two people died… so that’s the part that can’t really be staged.

      If two people hadn’t died, I’d think he crushed one of those Halloween blood capsule things when he went to duck and cover, but the two deaths lead me to believe otherwise.

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    The question was whether a bullet or shrapnel hit Trump. But of course, Trump does not comprehend nuance.

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      The question about whether it was a bullet or shrapnel wouldn’t even be in the news if Trump didn’t insist on playing up being an inch from death. Either answer would have been far less important than being shot at but no, he had to make the question about what hit him a big deal.

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        You’re not wrong, but the NYT played their part by taking a non-story and publishing it under an intentionally ambiguous headline for clicks. That’s probably got repeated to Trump as, “the FBI director is testifying to Congress that you didn’t get shot!” or something like that, which led to this outburst.

        The NYT sure has been stirring the shit lately.

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      Trump does not comprehend nuance.

      I’m dizzy trying to figure out if this is irony, sarcasm, redundant, humour, reality, serious, comical, factual, dystopian…or did the psilocybin just kick in, on so many levels?

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      Either way, it shouldn’t matter, someone still got close to killing him. But of course, Trump probably insists that people say he got hit by a bullet.

      I’m sure we’ll find out eventually unless he decides to continue wearing his maxi-pad.

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        Yes, to sane people, it is a distinction without much of a difference. But to his incredibly fragile machismo image, every inch is a mile.

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    This story could have just gone away, with most people never hearing that maybe he just has a little cut under his big gauze pad and anyone trying to bring it up looking extremely petty. But nope, Trump himself can’t just let things pass unanswered.

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      Also worth noting: Wray’s statements were made in response to questions asked by Jim Jordan.

      This isn’t something Democrats went looking to dig up. It got stirred up by one of Trump’s frothiest allies.

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    For anyone who was wondering why Trump refused to release the medical report after the shooting, this is why.

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      You’re telling me Dementia Don the racist rapist with 34 felonies wouldn’t release a medical report of him getting “shot”? If he had proof he was shot, It’d be on tshirts made in China and plastered all over the place. It’d be on billboards, flyers in the mail, and everywhere you look.

      This is the proof that he didn’t get shot, he got hit by shrapnel.

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    Fingers crossed! I have ‘shrapnel’ on my election bingo card! I just need “Black Hillary” (thanks for that one @nonailsleft@lemm.ee) and ‘JD cries’.

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      Complete mystery, total head-scratcher. I’m pretty sure slow cookers are involved.

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        There should be a service that’s always there in secret so we can know what happens.