I just talked to one of my American friends from this site on Zoom. He is a former army medic and reckons that Trump got hit by a glass fragment of the teleprompter that grazed his cheek and then hit his ear. A direct hit by a bullet (even a graze) would have taken his cheek off.

So, do you think this was a staged shooting, and Trump was using blood capsules or something like that, for the blood on his face and ear, or was it more like what kelvin shared below, that Trump was cut by glass from the teleprompter, after it was hit by a bullet?

@TomMcGiverin I have no inside information. Stone and Trump have made their reputations out of staging incidents to manipulate people, so I remain highly suspicious this was staged. The blood smears across Trump's face looked fake to me, so I question what would need to happen to fake the rest of it. Maybe the flying glass could do it, but not a bullet. For Trump to be missed 4-5 times is the worst luck. I feel badly teased, and I am so tired of it.

@racocn8 The latest reporting I've heard, seems to be saying that Trump's ear was supposedly cut by a piece of glass, probably from a shattered teleprompter, not a bullet.

@racocn8 My sister surprised me when she said she thinks the whole thing was staged to create sympathy for Trump. She has never bought into any kind of consipi9racy theories.

I find it interesting that there are now reports of the gun man having been spotted about half an hour before the actual shooting. That with reports of bystanders alerting the Secret Service about the gun man and their not being at all concerned about it, does make me question the official story.

@snytiger6 It clearly was staged, and a fake attempt to kill Trump. We have now seen fiction and fact merge and blur, and if you haven't seen it before, I suggest that any skeptics of this, watch the dark political satire, Bob Roberts, with Tim Robbins..

@TomMcGiverin I was skeptical about it being staged... then all the infighting within the republican party ended after the shooting, which greatly increased their chances of winning in November.

@snytiger6 Yes, to me, that tells me all I need to know about how they felt about it, and how it politically benefited them and Trump, which is why it was arranged to happen.. I am more convinced each day, with what is coming out about how Crooks was allowed to get up on the roof and not stopped, as well as how Trump was not kept off the stage, even after Crooks was spotted way earlier as a threat. Too many coincidences and holes in the official narrative of how it was a legit, serious attempt on Trump and that he was ever in any real danger..

Also, the great silence, regarding Biden, from the Repubs and Trump, after the debate and Biden coming under fire, was very telling to me, about how they wanted Biden to stay the nominee, and were convinced that he had become fatally damaged as a candidate, from the debate..

I know that Trump will milk this for all he's worth. I fear violence will escalate and many people will suffer.

@Betty

When calm returns, we know who will have instigated the violence

@Betty I have little doubt that one or more of Trump's followers, will commit a mass shooting later this summer, as revenge for what they see as a real attempt to kill Trump, against a group composed of people seen as the enemies of MAGA, such as blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, immigrants, or queer people. And when it happens, Trump and the Repubs will not denounce or condemn it.

@TomMcGiverin I find it depressing to have to agree with you. How I would love to say the opposite.

@TomMcGiverin It would not surprise me at all if that happened.

Trump will take away people's guns, but only from the groups that he considers his enemies. Straight white Christian males, and his MAGA followers, will still be able to have and keep all the guns they want to.