Trump Assassination Trutherism Takes Hold on the Left
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 proliferateTRUMP-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:
John Harwood, who was actually allowed to moderate a GOP debate a few years back:
Keith Olbermann:
Even Newsweek:
From the story:
Donald Trump May Not Have Been Hit By Bullet, FBI Director SaysFBI 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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