Trump Assassination Trutherism Takes Hold on the Left
“From the moment former President Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania, there have been people, usually his political opponents, who have suggested that Trump was not actually shot.”
Democrats and various media figures are now questioning whether or not Trump was actually shot, despite the fact that millions of people watched it happen live on television.
These are the same people who rush to accuse others of being conspiracy theorists.
Byron York writes in the Washington Examiner:
Trump-wasn’t-shot theories proliferate
TRUMP-WASN’T-SHOT THEORIES PROLIFERATE. From the moment former President Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania, there have been people, usually his political opponents, who have suggested that Trump was not actually shot. Of course, there were the usual conspiracy nuts who claimed it was all made up. But there were also more mainstream figures who suggested that Trump was not hit by a bullet from the would-be assassin’s gun but rather a bit of shrapnel that came from…somewhere.
The first theory held that a bullet had actually shattered a glass teleprompter panel, and a shard of glass then hit Trump’s ear. That theory suffered from the fact that the teleprompter panels were not hit by bullets and appeared to be intact after the shooting. But that did not stop the theorists from starting with the glass and going on from there.
“We still don’t know for sure whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet, whether he was hit by glass fragments, whether he was hit by shrapnel — we don’t have those details,” MSNBC host Joy Reid said a few days after the assassination attempt. “We actually have no details from his physician, even though this man is still a Secret Service-protected, you know, presidential candidate. We know almost nothing.” Reid was also upset that, in her view of things, Trump’s Secret Service agents “allowed” the former president to stand up after being hit so that he could pose for photos.
Here’s MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell:
Lawrence O'Donnell: "We don't know if Donald Trump got hit with a bullet."
Donald Trump's defamation lawsuit is going to break records. pic.twitter.com/zTegA53d8r
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) July 26, 2024
John Harwood, who was actually allowed to moderate a GOP debate a few years back:
FBI Director Wray on Trump's injury from the assassination attempt:
“There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.”
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 24, 2024
Keith Olbermann:
THE TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT COVER-UP CONSPIRACY: The FBI Director FINALLY admits we don’t know if Trump was hit by a bullet or debris. Why is no one demanding the truth?
NEW HARRIS POLLS: they’re calling it “Kamalot”
GET THE FRIDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST: https://t.co/EyeoWbyjy3 pic.twitter.com/EgYmUBZtC1
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 26, 2024
Even Newsweek:
Donald Trump might not have been shot after all https://t.co/60KvtkhY1N pic.twitter.com/fObe2Jr3iG
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 25, 2024
From the story:
Donald Trump May Not Have Been Hit By Bullet, FBI Director Says
FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday that it was not clear whether former President Donald Trump was shot or hit by shrapnel when a gunman opened fire at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.
The FBI is investigating the July 13 shooting, which killed one rally-goer and seriously injured two others before the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by the Secret Service.
Trump was rushed off stage with a bloodied ear. He said that night that he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.” He said he heard “a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin” in a post on his Truth Social platform.
A week after the shooting, the Trump campaign released a doctor’s note from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson—who had served as Trump’s White House physician—that said Trump sustained a gunshot wound to his right ear that was “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.” Trump is “doing well, and he is recovering as expected,” Jackson said.
The same people who told you Biden was fine until three weeks ago, and who are now insisting that Kamala Harris was not Biden’s border czar, now want you to disbelieve what you saw with your own eyes.
It’s Orwellian.
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So, they’re assassination attempt deniers?
They Must Be Canceled!!
Do you or do you not want a thorough investigation into this shooting? The FBI Director doesn’t know if Trump’s wound was caused by a direct hit or shrapnel. You seem to gloat that one shrapnel source was apparently eliminated. The crime is just as heinous either way and to feel threatened that shrapnel rather than a bullet directly caused the injury is unhinged thinking.
In the minds of leftists, if it were just shrapnel, it’s not really an assassination attempt. Trump was never in any *real* danger, it was just an accident.
Channeling
Whoopie GoldbergCaryn Johnson, what it an assassination attempt assassination attempt?Shrapnel from what?
Not only from what, since when is shrapnel just a single piece? I may be displaying ignorance but how come there were no other shrapnel injuries? I would expect more than just Trump to be hit if it was only shrapnel.
Exactly
Like someone just threw a bullet at him
Anything is possible. I believe it was Danny Thomas who said that his childhood neighborhood was so tough that no one bothered with guns. They inserted the bullets manually.
Maybe shrapnel from the windmill blade?
You win LIer of the Day for that. ;-{)}}}
The claim is that the bullet hit the teleprompter screen and shattered the glass. And it was the “glass shrapnel” which then hit Trump on the right ear. The idea, I guess, being that since it wasn’t the actual bullet the hit Trump but only “glass shrapnel” the incident doesn’t count as an assassination attempt.
To be totally frank, I think the thrust of the argument is that if a bullet had been a half inch more “inside,” Trump would be dead, whereas if it was shrapnel in the same place, he’d be injured at worst.
Unfortunately for the deluded, the teleprompter were intact, and if one was hit, it would have sprayed glass everywhere.
Did the fire chief die from shrapnel??
If Wray is going to lie to Congress over something so obvious as to whether Trump was hit by a bullet, I have no faith in any investigation the FBI may conduct and even less faith in any report giving the findings of that investigation.
Yes, I want both a thorough investigation into the shooting. And I want an honest investigation. And really, if the FBI Director doesn’t know at this point whether or not Trump was hit by a bullet or merely glass shrapnel by this point then good help us. The investigation will be neither thorough nor honest. That’s for sure.
Shrapnel from what? There is videographic and photographic evidence of the teleprompter mirrors being indisputably intact after the shooting. Christopher Wray is either a moron or he’s intentionally trying to undermine Trump (both could possibly be true).
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-hit-bullet-glass-214700870.html
He’s deliberately trying to undermine Trump.
We don’t hate the media enough.
Deceitful, lying, propagandists. All of them.
We don’t hate the FBI enough
Or the CIA
Or Homeland Security
Or the DOJ
Or IRS
FDA too.
Or EPA, FAA, CDC, CPSC, or countless others.
We will never know what killed Kennedy………../s
Sure we do. It was COVID.
Wait until the “Trump staged the assassination” hoax get rolling.
Garand Thumb (Gun YouTuber and retired USAF TACP) has already put out a video that’s a wholesale debunking of the ‘assassination hoax’ claim. The tl;dr is with the gear the shooter was using, it’s an impossible shot to ‘just hit Trump’s ear.’ The Minute of Angle (MOA), which is a metric that measures rifle accuracy, is too great for the cheaper AR variants, like the kind that Crooke was using.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtJA9xuzAFE
Yes that is a great video, I made mention of it in a comment yesterday but I didn’t have the link.
Thanks for providing it today.
Even with a precision rifle that could do 0.01 moa nobody would be willing to let the best shot in the world try that. It’s lunacy. “I am gonna turn my head rapidly and unpredictably, but make sure you only hit my ear”.
To clarify, if necessary for some, they didn’t say Trump’s ear wasn’t hit, they said it was impossible for it to be staged, that someone purposely aimed just for the ear as an assassination attempt hoax.
Direct shot, shrapnel… how about a ricochet? Where would the Left position that? The first shot was directly at Trump… a clear shot with no hindrance. The Left is once again manufacturing…. it doesn’t even take a gaslight to see that.
Leftist reply: Trump wasn’t the assassin’s target. Any bullet, even one that may have grazed Trump, wasn’t meant for him. Therefore, this was not a political assassination attempt.
With his best rifle, his first shot at hitting the “ear” on the target was full on head shot.
Exactly. $2K scoped rifle w/match grade ammo….still misses by a few inches, at least.
Won’t make a difference. The assassination truthers will say that the gunman deliberately missed, and when Trump pretended to fall down he cut himself with a previously hidden knife or piece of glass.
Keep in mind that many leftists are wannabe Hollywood scriptwriters, and that what they see on the silver screen or the boobtube is Unassailable Truth.
There is one “theory” that could at least be physically possible. That would be the “Trump cut/gouged his own ear” just before dropping down. There’s the moment he puts his hand to his ear before he prudently ducks.
If there is camera footage from those behind the stage, that could put that argument to rest, maybe. Also, no testimony from USSS agents about something in his hand or being dropped on the stage reduces the viability of that theory.
Is that you JR?
Joe?
Kamala?
I may be wrong, but I don’t think that GWB is saying that this was what actually happened, or that this is what he believed happened, he’s merely saying that, logically, it would be physically possible. GWB even goes on to provide possible ways of debunking that “theory”.
The screen writers that write in such things as shooting a gun out of the hand of The Bad Guy.
Plus the assassin was using a red dot with no magnification and the dot would nearly completely cover the entire head at that distance, so the ear couldn’t even be targeted, just the head as a general rule.
Unless they are trying to say that Trump saw the shot coming and is superhuman enough to move only his ear in the path of the bullet.
Both sides know something is fishy. It doesn’t pass the smell test.
So, conservatives think Trump was set up. Liberals think it never happened.
But, no one believes the narrative.
For good reason. Only a fool would ever believe anything the government says ever again. Everything they say is a lie until proven otherwise
We do know that there were 8 shots fired toward Trump by a deranged 20 year old. We do know that Trump was struck in the ear by a projectile. We do have photographic evidence of at least one bullet zooming past Trump at ear level. We do know that at least three other people where struck (one killed, and two thankfully recovering) by projectiles. We do know that Trump had the remarkable presence of mind upon leaving the stage to raise his fist and shout “Fight, Fight, Fight”.
While there are lots of questions about the security arrangements and the shooter’s motivation, there is not much else of importance to know about the immediate scene at Butler PA.
We know there were 8 shots, but IIRC I don’t think it’s been proven that all all eight came from the kid’s rifle. Were any bullets or casings recovered?
There’s at least one YouTube analyzing the acoustics of the gunshots, and I think his conclusion was that there was more than one shooter.
https://youtu.be/DTFhhHnKSnA?si=ERi7UQzLRMeN40ZE
One deranged loon shooting at Trump, two USSS counter-snipers (or one local police SWAT and one USSS sniper, the actual identities have been a bit blurred) shooting back at him. YouTube analysis of gunshots has about the same credibility as gas station sushi, particularly in an area with so many large, flat-sided buildings and three different shooting spots to make echoes, recorded by cell phone camera sized microphones in a crowd of noisy people. Eight shell casings were recovered from the shooter’s location, each of the counter-sniper teams has an accurate count of their rounds fired, and that’s it. No grassy knoll, no secret agents with a gun in their camera, just a lone loon.
Now there *are* questions about the loon. (I’m not using his name) Where did all his social media go, why did he travel where he did before the shooting and such. Interested law enforcement agents with shovels should be digging there, not dreaming of second shooters, claiming ‘shrapnel’ hit President Trump (Yes, I’m looking at the FBI chief who should know better), or other wacked conspiracy theories.
Having eliminated the possibility of fragments from the teleprompters, DJT was otherwise in the direct line of fire to the shooter. Could one of these geniuses please tell us what the bullets could have hit in front of DJT to create fragments to hit his ear. I saw with my own eyes DJT turn his head as the gun was fired, creating a bullet angle parallel to his head and hitting his ear, rather than directly into his head.
When did the truth ever get in their way?
Umm, the 2020 presidential election.
No it didn’t
THIS IS GOOD FOR THE GOP
dont blow this opp like you do 90% of the time
same way the left TRIED to say it was the gop who wanted to defund the police and on and on it goes
this was IN FRONT OF THE WORLD THAT HE WAS SHOT
DOESNT MATTER IF IT WAS SHRAPNEL
THANK YOU MSM>>DNC NAZIS!!!!!!
come on gop !!!!
This is the leftys way of saying
HEY WE DIDNT MESS UP ON OUR PROTECTION OF HIM
he wasnt even shot
DEFUND THE LIARS!!!!
thats who we need to defund aka lefty
begs ther question;;;;
will the msm actually show the 2024 dnc blmplo led riots at the dnc
leftys whole hand print is on the ar15 that tried to mur der him
That theory suffered from the fact that the teleprompter panels were not hit by bullets and appeared to be intact after the shooting.
More importantly, IMO, it suffers from the fact that shards from either teleprompter would have had to defy physics or go through Trump’s head to cut that ear since they were on the opposite side of his head from the wound.
Yeah. The stupidity of saying the glass from the teleprompters is what injured him is reaching ridiculous levels.
The teleprompters weren’t hit. Even if they were hit their position on the stage and the direction Trump was facing at the moment he is hit makes it impossible for his right ear to have been hit.
The left can’t even make a decent conspiracy theory.
“More importantly, IMO, it suffers from the fact that shards from either teleprompter would have had to defy physics”
It was a “magic teleprompter,” maybe even hit by a “magic bullet.”
They’re questioning whether Trump was shot. Is it because they really don’t know? Yeah, right.
They are methodically setting the narrative. A psy-ops that in a few weeks people will be reflexively saying it was fragments from a teleprompter and Trump was never the target.
The media/government just love playing with our heads.
They are just habitual liars. The only reason they gain traction with those lies are that they are Hillary’s deplorables, morons.
They’re questioning whether Trump was shot because him being the subject of an assassination attempt means he’s a victim. And in their view, being a victim gives him clout, the right to speak and be heard, sympathy, and those without his lived experience have to go to the back of the line.
Being a victim gives him power in their hierarchy. And thus they must deny him.
The Left is trying to minimize the significance of the fact that DJT was the target of an assassination attempt. It doesn’t matter who was behind it, it doesn’t matter what struck or didn’t strike DJT. Only the attempt matters. In minimizing the attempt on his life, they’re also trying to minimize his immediate response of defiance. One thought we probably have in common is that in his defiance in the face of danger, DJT was showing his true colors. We admire his response while the Left is terrified by it. In part, they are attempting to soothe themselves with these narratives.
The left should be terrorized, their conduct has been so over the top, so illegal, that they they have a sinking feeling in their gut.
As if we really needed more proof of how stupid Communists really are
The FBI Director is either an idiot or complicit in some kind of Democrat-inspired coverup.
There is no shrapnel from a .223 bullet that has not yet hit anything. There are no shards of glass from teleprompter screens that haven’t been hit. There is no doubt that a .223 bullet passed through Trump’s upper ear.
For the FBI Director to suggest otherwise sounds to me like some kind of politically-inspired minimization.
So, why is the left going down this path? Why are they questioning the cause of Trump’s injury? Two possibilities come to mind.
1) The left doesn’t want using the line where he says, “I took a bullet for Democracy.”
2) They constantly fact check every single word he says, in order to keep the narrative alive that Trump lies.
Because, they started out with Biden who had nothing positive to actually run on, if you paid attention there weren’t very many pro-Biden adds, mostly just Anti-Trump ads.
Now that their cover up has been revealed and Joe is no longer Viable, their only alternative is Kamala and the only thing she has to run on is being a woman of color. She has done nothing as VP except be an embarrassment and hasn’t even attempted to fix the things Joe supposedly gave her to fix.
So when Trump got shot it pretty much sealed the election, so they have to do whatever they can to diminish and downplay Trump getting shot.
Was the person killed, and the two wounded hit by shrapnel too?
Does it really matter if Trump was hit by the would be assassin’s bullet, or shrapnel as a consequence of said bullet?
Or is the Left trying to push the idea it wasn’t an assassination, Trump was just accidental collateral damage?
Ahh yes, the Magic Shrapnel theory. Shrapnel from what? There was nothing in proximity to produce shrapnel, much less to give it the speed to injure. Nothing exploded. There is one very unlikely way he could have been hit by “shrapnel”, but that would be if the round broke up in flight, but those would be “Bullet Fragments” so he still would have been hit by a bullet. However, it is unlikely that the round broke up since we have a photo of one of the rounds intact just after it flew past Trump’s head.
The Glass “Theory” suffers from the same problem as the Magid Shrapnel. What gave the glass the speed to injure? Nothing exploded. If it was the Teleprompter then why didn’t we see more glass flying on the video? Also, where is the damaged Teleprompter?
Here is a “Theory” it could have been a mosquito that was just really really full and Trump just happened to swat at it as the shots were fired!
The FBI director Perjured himself before Congress and should be forced to resign and charged.
Oh, well the FBI just put out a statement that it was a :bullet; “Whether whole or fragmented”? LMAO!
The only thing that that bullet hit that would make it fragment was Trump’s ear.
Good Lord, the people make skin crawl.
One feels the need to explain to Wray that (1) it doesn’t matter whether Trump was hit by a bullet directly or shrapnel; (2) the fireman standing behind Trump, who threw his wife and daughter to the ground before taking a bullet for them, is dead; (3) two attendees behind Trump ended up in the hospital with serious injuries. So, Wray, what a precious argument to pretend there was ever any doubt there was an assassination attempt on Trump. What a joker.