Do those studies presume that a bullet passed sufficiently close to Trump’s right ear to nick it?
I am not aware of any evidence, in the first few seconds between the first shot and when Trump stood back up again, supporting that assumption.
We saw a reflex-like movement of Trump’s right hand to his right ear, and perhaps a bit of reddish tint on his fingers where they would have touched his ear.
My hypothesis is
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Trump learned of the planned assassination operation ahead of time. Trump made a “deal” with the designated real sniper “You miss me, you live. You kill me, you die.”
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When the “real” sniper saw that the patsy (Crooks?) was almost ready to shoot, the “real” sniper first shot three shots into the upper corner of the furthest (from him) southern bleacher, carefully missing Trump, but close enough for Trump to hear and get down.
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When Trump heard the first shot, he acted out the hand to ear motion, and perhaps put a little stage blood that was hidden behind his ear onto his fingers.
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Trump had his closest Secret Service agent then nick his ear while Trump was on the bottom of the initial Secret Service dog pile.
Thus over two centuries of driving the most powerful American opponents of the Deep State from office, using bullets, poisons (e.g. FDR), or other felonious or fraudulent means (e.g. Nixon) was thwarted by a simple, safe and reliable “Judo” move, turning the energy of Deep State agents engaged in yet another assassination against themselves.
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One specific consequence of my above observations, that is very relevant to this specific PeakProsperity thread, is that we don’t know if one of the first three bullets passed close enough to Trump’s ear to nick it.
That critical assumption of those “3 independent studies”, that a bullet nicked Trump’s ear, lacks conclusive supporting evidence.
Even if you don’t like my Trump “Judo” hypothesis, we should not be relying on a critical assumption that lacks conclusive supporting evidence. That’s not how sound investigations work.
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Such a dramatic “Bigger Than Life Judo” move is exactly what one might expect of a man like Trump, who has known for a long time, from his close association with the Kennedy sons and Nixon, of the dangers a powerful opponent of the Deep State faces in the United States.
Trump is a long time fan of professional wrestling, which is rich with such staged drama. Trump has been living this role for real as a President and President candidate, and acted this role for television as the lead on the show “The Apprentice”.
Such a “Bigger Than Life” public persona is who Trump has been for a long time, and one reason that some people can’t stand him.
Trump’s inside intelligence into his Deep State opponents is clearly damn good … he’d already be a fading footnote of history otherwise. Such sting operations, run in Trump’s casinos, were part of how Rudy Giuliani became “America’s Mayor”, putting some New York City Mafia in prison.
This is how Trump works. This was a challenge he has known for a long, long time he would face.
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