Trump-wasn’t-shot theories proliferate

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Trump-wasn’t-shot theories proliferate

TRUMP-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.

“We don’t know why, for nine full seconds, Donald Trump was allowed to stand back up during an active shooting, an active shooter situation, even though they at that point had said the shooter was down. How would they have known if there were more shooters or not?” Reid said. “Yet they allowed him to stand up in the middle of that crisis and pose for a photo and fist-pump the air so he could get the iconic photo.”

Clearly Reid has an active imagination. Finally, she questioned the wound that Trump suffered in the shooting. “What is the actual injury to Donald Trump’s ear that is under that bandage?” she said. “Shouldn’t we know that by now? It’s weird.”


 
If you think this sounds a little weird itself, you should know that such speculation is fairly common on the Left and becoming more so every day. No need to list a lot of examples. It’s out there.

Now the speculation has received the imprimatur of the director of the FBI. Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and on two occasions suggested that Trump might have been hit by “shrapnel.”

On one occasion, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) asked Wray, “How close did the assassin’s bullet come to killing President Trump?” Wray responded, “My understanding is that either it or some shrapnel is what, you know, grazed his ear. So I don’t know that I have the actual distance.”

On another occasion, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the committee, asked Wray if the FBI had accounted for all eight bullets thought to have been fired by the shooter and whether some victims might have been hit multiple times. “I think with respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, hit his ear, so it’s conceivable,” Wray answered. “Although, as I sit here right now, I don’t know whether that bullet, in addition to, you know, causing the grazing could have also landed somewhere else. But I believe we’ve accounted for all of the shots and the cartridges.”
What to make of it? Wray did not offer any information on what, if Trump was not hit by a bullet, the shrapnel might have been or how it might have happened. Had he talked to FBI experts who have examined the evidence? He did not say. So what could it mean?
 
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