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[–] 83 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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)

Biden condemns the act.

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  • [–] [S] 111 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    (I hate the source, F this guy) but here's him being ushered off the stage after... https://x.com/stillgray/status/1812250467071885730

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Also if I got shot or grazed, I wouldn't be worried about my shoes.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    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.

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    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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    We heard a lot of shots, where did they all go?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yep.

    I fully expect at least several "retaliatory" attacks against democrats in the next week by rabid MAGAts.

    Edit Suprised the mods havent deleted this yet, consindering how hog wild they are going and labeling everything conspiracy and deleting it.

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    So at the end there…

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What happens next was going to happen eventually anyways. It's been too late for a long time.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    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..

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It could easily be blood from falling to the ground or even getting jumped on by the secret service, old people bleed easily.

    I'd be amazed if that was blood from a gunshot, if it was he missed dying by literally an inch.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You can see him grab his ear pretty clearly when it all starts, he got hit by something.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    It looks like it's coming both from his ear and his mouth. I'm guessing the mouth part is from being tackled by the Secret Service.

    Edit: there's a photo of him on the ground with the blood clearly coming from his ear. I think the only injury was the ear. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/possible-shots-fired-at-trump-rally-in-butler-pennsylvania/

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The shooter is dead? Did someone just say this on live TV? Who?

    Source pleaaaase.

    Only bystander I've heard about being hit is Wolf interviewing a guy who says he saw a General with a gunshot wound to the head.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Well fuck. Yep, CNN is now saying the shooter is dead.

    Guy was actually dumb enough to do it from inside the crowd, and he got murdered by them.

    What a shitshow.

    EDIT: Shooter is dead, but was not in the crowd. Was on a building's roof outside the event and got obliterated by counter sniper fire.

    He was reported to have been shot in the head, thus the so-far lack of images showing what may be quite a mutilated head.

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