It seem like he was hit. Blood was on his right ear in one shot. Unclear if that's because he was hit there or if he touched it after touching something else bloody.
He was escorted away on foot with secret service.
Edit: reports that one bystander and the shooter are now dead.
Claims the suspect was a man named Mark Violets. (This ID may be wrong no official sources covering this)
Edit: his base is going to be insanely fired up now. I'm genuinely scared about what's going to happen now. I can see it already "the deep state tried to stop him and God saved Trump!" ugh.
I really hate the guy but if you've never had a near-death experience you wouldn't understand that your logic is a bit weird in the moment. it takes more than a couple of moments for your brain to catch up with reality. his shoes are special thick lift shoes to make him seem way taller because he's extremely vain. if he fell out of his awkward tall shoes when he ducked, he probably would have been preoccupied in the moment with not appearing short and weak (his true form) until the reality caught up to him. I don't doubt at all that some sycophantic pr stooge was yelling into his earpiece to "look triumphant, look triumphant!!" when he was getting back up though.
I wouldnt either. What better way to come back from the epstein document release detailing his pedophilia, and the massive outrage against 2025, all of which that lead to him practically hiding for the last week+?
Especially when he isnt exactly the bravest thing around to begin with.
Very unlikely, it's an easy intuitive thing to think when emotions are high, and there is so much at stake with the election and division so high, that emotions are high as well.
Having a shooter miss you on purpose is something that is extremely risky, not easy to stage, and the US has enough armed people with emotions boiling over and little to lose. It is very much the overwhelmingly more likely scenario.
At this point, we know very little, but with what we do know at the moment - for this, you'd need:
someone willing to be taken out as the shooter, willing to or being tricked into shooting blanks, or an extremely elaborate plan to switch in a body (you also have to acquire and prepare somewhere) in front of witnesses and potential cameras
someone without blanks firing to explain the other bystanders dead from bullets
complete control over the subsequent investigation, to make sure no one looks into it properly, which would make all the people involved in the know
It is still an extremely, extremely unlikely scenario
Agreed. Further, Chozo@fedia.io in this post commented that we can hear the rounds hitting before the report, and since blanks don't hit, we can presume this was not faked.
Or just use a razor and actually cut your ear. I'd say someone took their shot and missed. He happened to turn his head at the last moment, or the shot would have made a solid hit.
Where did the other shots go? Security should have seen something. Dude is a known coward. There’s no way if it was real he would have reacted that way.
The reports I am hearing say that at least two people besides the shooter are dead, which probably is where (some of) the other bullets went. Dude is a coward, but also a narcissist, I assume he noticed that the Secret Service had already killed the shooter, so immediately switched into "I am invincible" mode.
Again, I understand it as an intuitive reaction, but the world is a lot more chaotic than that, and huge conspiracies coordinated well like that are super, super rare. Waiting and being willing to adjust your position is a good thing to do right now. With more stuff coming out, the situation will become more clear.
CNN speculated that lots of those shots were the Secret Service returning fire. They are reporting on TV that you can hear them saying "Shooter down" and that it was then safe to move Trump. I couldn't hear that, but someone on TV said they could hear that in the chatter.
Yeah this is not going to result in anything good. I keep thinking about what's happened after Robert Fico got shot, basically how it's being used as a confirmation of everything bad his supporters believe about his opponents and as a justification for further sliding into authoritarianism
Yeah, this is my real fear with all of this. Trump is definitely going to feed on his new victimhood to further rally his supporters and make them more extreme.
expressing their feelings about news media? Unless there’s someone with a blue hat somewhere behind the camera (or they were leading the perp away back there). All speculation here to be clear, not that it’s too critical of an issue in the larger scheme of the incident.
I'm finding it so bizarre to witness this mass cognitive dissonance where people can make the connection to Hitler's rise to power, but not to the heroic act so many claim they would perform themselves if they had a time machine..
It's almost like they need a few million marginalised people to die first, just to be sure..
Yeah but on the pics I saw his ear looked fine, it had blood on it, but still totally normal. I guess it might have been blood from someone nearby that hit him? If rumors are true someone got shot in the head, that tends to splatter some blood.
I'm leaning towards fake and staged, honestly. No article says a shooter was seen/killed/shot/apprehended/existed. Just that there were shots. When was the last time that happened with a real shooter? And nothing could be better for Trump's campaign than to be almost assassinated.
But now the Yall'qaeda are going to go into overdrive and I fear for what they do in their bloodlust...