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I worked in EMS for fifteen years. The amount of damage a bullet does is really a question of how much energy is transferred. In order to transfer energy into tissue, obviously the bullet needs to make contact. Minimal contact means minimal energy transfer; at some point the bullet's just going to shear off the tissue it brushes against and that's that. It's not like a video game where a glancing shot is going to send him spinning through the air like a top and rip his ear off. Especially because the ear can kinda wiggle freely, it's a bit closer to just nicking a paper target.
Indeed. The only way that something like that is happening is the nervous system doing it (or tissue ejecting like JFK).
Again, handgun, no, high-velocity rifle, pretty likely. The two act very differently when they contact tissue. An instantaneous transfer of even a fraction of 1.8kJ of energy to tissue is pretty devastating.
It is possible that he was hit but, the minute amount of contact needed to transfer enough energy from round as small as 5.56mm to cause a "cut" without any damage to the surrounding tissue is exceedingly unlikely. The fact that the medical records were not just withheld from the public but even investigators, after which he paraded around bragging about it really makes "he was hit by a bullet" the non-credible scenario.