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In reply to the discussion: Remember when Trump pretended to be slightly nicked on the ear? [View all]Orrex
(67,080 posts)Your assumption that "the individuals involved in this nefarious plot" would have spilled the beans is premature; strong, ongoing evidence exists that his regime is kept mum about the rape allegations against him, notwithstanding this and other administrations leaking like sieves.
As for your "known coward" comment:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221118598#post108
And that's on top of the fact that his blood sprayed in the wrong direction for a wound resulting from a bullet fired toward him from the front.
What follows here is indeed speculation: Trump may have been told that the shooter would use blanks, and that he was to slap a blood capsule to his ear when he heard the shots. I offer no evidence of this; it's admittedly pure speculation that incidentally is not inconsistent with observable events.