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In reply to the discussion: Remember when Trump pretended to be slightly nicked on the ear? [View all]sarisataka
(22,650 posts)77. Most likely it is just a poor AI response
A bullet passing at supersonic speed will have a 'crack', the shockwave of travelling faster than sound. A 5.56mm bullet makes a sound about the same as a firecracker when it passes you.
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Here's a link but no way to know if it is true. The WP ran with it also but they are no longer trustworthy
lostnfound
9 hrs ago
#145
But how would he have raised his fist and said, "Fight, fight, fight"
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
10 hrs ago
#141
I have more of a scar on my ear cartilage from getting my ears pierced.
MorbidButterflyTat
Yesterday
#92
I just looked at timeline images on NPR and I didn't see a bloody hand.
Trueblue Texan
Yesterday
#65
It's amazing that the secret service stood him up like that in the line of fire
Orrex
12 hrs ago
#140
"Perhaps you'll next assure us that those pics of Trump with bikini-clad children are photoshopped, too."
Jedi Guy
Yesterday
#89
The kooky theory is that an unhealthy bag of shit healed from a bullet wound in three days
Orrex
Yesterday
#91
Your claim falls apart when you realize those aren't comparable situations
EdmondDantes_
Yesterday
#117
So the shooter either couldn't remember to grab the clip with the blanks
EdmondDantes_
Yesterday
#72
So is your theory that the shooter thought he had blanks and the Trump team knew he had real bullets and
EdmondDantes_
Yesterday
#102
I agree with you that Orange Julius Caesar would never put himself in the line of real live bullets.
generalbetrayus
Yesterday
#49
Seriously? Anytime live bullets are flying, the lives of everyone in the general target range
Ms. Toad
Yesterday
#85
I wish you'd post some images that illustrate the scarring. I've never been able to see it, but maybe I
Crunchy Frog
Yesterday
#35
yeah I like it was a puppy nip or box cutter just enough of the slice to make it flow. n/t
SonOfNebanaube
Yesterday
#107
The same Secret Service that didn't secure the area before the assassination attempt?
EdmondDantes_
Yesterday
#29
Making liberals look like nutty conspiracy theorists and extremists helps the right-wing.
betsuni
18 hrs ago
#127
lol, this nonsense is nothing. 9/11 truthers used to run rampant years ago.
tritsofme
16 hrs ago
#130
I remember when I was told I was intellectually inferior for saying Epstein didn't kill himself.
Scrivener7
16 hrs ago
#132
The USSS is trained to cover the president with their own bodies. If it wasn't staged the USSS never would have...
usaf-vet
Yesterday
#25
How is it that people here don't understand that cartilage doesn't regenerate?
Crunchy Frog
Yesterday
#31
Way too many "marks" have fallen time and time again for the con man's tricks
Blue Owl
Yesterday
#32
Not impossible at all. There are many ways it could have been pulled off and many analyses showing the official story is
LymphocyteLover
9 hrs ago
#147
I had a vision after accidentally inhaling chem-trails emitted from a black helicopter that told me the same thing!
tritsofme
Yesterday
#44
The bullet fired by the shooter traveled approx 3,200 ft per second, which is faster that the speed of sound
Martin Eden
Yesterday
#47
I loved how the blood splattered in the opposite direction of the bullet and with Hollywood movie blood too
ffr
Yesterday
#50
Well, as for whether or not his ear was damaged and completely healed, I see a possible small ding
generalbetrayus
Yesterday
#57
Maybe the question should be does anyone doubt Trump would do ANYTHING to maintain power??
NoMoreRepugs
Yesterday
#94
Either he didn't know that he was in danger, or he knew that he wasn't in danger
Orrex
14 hrs ago
#137
Bannon set it up and did not care if turd died or not because Bannon wins either way
krawhitham
22 hrs ago
#122
To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
usonian
20 hrs ago
#126
I believe it was a real assassination attempt, but he capitalized on it.
JohnnyRingo
14 hrs ago
#136