• AFK BRB Chocolate
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    62 months ago

    People seem to be making a lot of distinction about whether it was the bullet or shrapnel from something the bullet hit. I don’t see how it matters. Someone took a shot at him and got close enough that his ear got tagged. I hate the guy, but this is an academic distinction that doesn’t really matter.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      My personal conspiracy theory is that he wasn’t hit by anything but instead a secret service agent accidentally hurt his ear when they piled on top of him.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Completely agree. This distinction is immaterial in anyway other than serving up fuel to fanatics who will poorly represent his dissenters.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        It doesn’t matter. Bullets are scary. Shrapnel is scary. What’s really ridiculous is his refusal to participate in the investigation. He turned a nothing into a something.

  • lurch (he/him)
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    42 months ago

    inb4 he had ketchup in his pocket from a hamberder, got it on his hands and then swatted a fly on his ear

    • @[email protected]OP
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      42 months ago

      I don’t think it was that, but it was unclear whether he had been grazed by a bullet or hit by a piece of shrapnel generated when a bullet hit an object near him, and the campaign was far from transparent about it