Pretty brave of Souza to do this but I still want to see a more factual detailed medical report! It’s traumatic to be shot, or shot at, but don’t embellish (lie) your injury. We actually would not have thought less of you (trump) if you had released the med report asap!
Must have been very small then. That's another negative about him. So secretive. No tax returns released, medical reports not released, WH visitor logs not released, secret meetings with who knows who., etc. Lies and cover ups are standard with him.
That’s bc when your doing illegal things, you hide it…why else wouldn’t he show is tax returns like every other president did before him…he’s a liar and a cheat at everything he does.
It was staged..I will never believe otherwise. They probably told the kid they’d give him a million dollars if he got up on that roof and shot into the air…unfortunately he did what he did, but I serious doubt that trump was ever in danger as a target…and he definitely didn’t “take” a bullet, as he said. Pathetic huckster!
And that is the tragic part of this.. but I still feel that there is more to it than has come to light. Trump could shut us all up, quite easily, if he were honest and released the official medical records. Even the head of the FBI said he hasn’t gotten any “official” accounting of his injury.
I can tell you based on the research I've had to do and another still-frame of the bullet in motion that what injured Trump was the air displacement of the bullet.
If he'd been struck anywhere on the ear by the actual round fired from an AR-15 - even just clipped - it would have torn most of his ear completely off and possibly part of his face or scalp. AR-15s inflict their signature devastating degree of damage to living tissue because they fire small rounds at unbelievable velocity.
This is the most interesting possibility I’ve heard. Thanks for sharing.
High velocity air displacement can tear the skin? Really hope the truth comes out, not to minimize the trauma of being shot at but for the accountability of always trying to fool the public!
High-velocity air displacement can tear limbs completely off if there's enough of it (think of being in exactly the wrong place inside the funnel of a tornado, where wind shear is going one direction at 150 mph and downdraft is going the other direction at 180 mph.)
As a teen I worked for my dad at his machine shop, and one day he had me buffing small parts on the belt sander. An industrial belt sander like ours turns at 2-3K rpms. I pushed one part just a tiny bit too hard and the belt sander seized i and dragged it into the belt feed (those parts were just the right size to fit between the gap where the belt and the work platform meet, and the protective cover ovr the belt.) The part getting dragged in dragged my fingers in towards the belt along with the part. I managed to let go in that split second, so instead of losing most of my fingers on both hands to the mid-knuckle, all I lost were my fingerprints from every finger, both hands - from the air displacement from the surface of the band saw.
Here's a still frame that happens to have caught the air trail of the first bullet. The resistance of air creates a frictive drag on the bullet, which drags that air pocket behind. Trump was close enough that the kinetic energy carried in that air pocket split the skin of his ear. If it had been a closer miss, he would have been burned instead of or, in addition to being cut (the friction that causes the air to behave like that also heats up the air to crazy temperatures.
I would assume so; the statement is factually accurate but extremely disingenuous since most people will interpret it to mean he was actually struck by the bullet, not just injured by the bullet's passing.
Woah I’m so sorry about your accident and relieved you have your fingers! My dad also had a shop injury and wasn’t as lucky but he never let it stop him lol. Really great info from you/incredible descriptions! And this article has been out since June 14 but I missed it 🥴 so thanks again. You should be on news channels explaining this to us laymen!!
I’ve understood about the high velocity-air displacement damage caused by bombs but never thought about a bullet having similar power.
Just sickens me more than ever the choices trump makes to exaggerate or lie. He’ll definitely take the truth of his ear injury to the grave!
Yeah, the AR-15 is famous for being one of the most difficult gun injuries to survive, no matter where it hits you. If there is any comfort to be found for the victims of mass shooters, it's that victims suffer, but not for long.
Personally I do not believe it was staged. He thot he was hit by a bullet. So did everyone else. My guess it was a fragment from a bullet that had hit something else first. I agree there is no way he would survive an actual hit from an ar-15. Bullets from ARs have a tumbler effect when they make contact. Even a grazing causes extraordinary damage. Like a true sociopath he took advantage of a terrible situation and lied about it for his advantage. He got his picture tho… I m sure he’s pissed cause the narrative was flipped in a week and his ‘sure to win’ went down the drain. He will take that secret to the grave after he has gotten every last dollar out of it.
No, they do not tumble. You are thinking of the M-16, which uses a much larger round and the tumbling effect primarily occurs when the round first punctures body armor. AR-15 .227's are moving at such a velocity that they completely destabilize on impact, which is much worse. However, as with all bullets, they are completely stable while in motion through air, so there were no fragments of bullet at the point he was injured.
Air displacement, which I linked a picture to elsewhere, is the only way a round from an AR 15 caused such a minor injury.
As I have said before, if he had been his with the round itself, even a tiny clip of his ear would have torn his ear and probably part of his face and scalp completely off. Impact to any hard tissue at all, even glancing, would have left him with life-threatening injuries.
I follow Pete Souza, and he has been off social media and traveling/vacationing for a week and he posted that he didn’t know about the controversy and said he was not banned from X—he did it accidentally to himself. He should be back on by now. Is he?
I finally left just as musk was switching the name to X. It was sad for me because my son’s sports coaches/schools posted most there and there were some really great people that don’t really use other platforms; however, the maga feeds blewwwww uppp and it was disgusting! I refused to support this guys neo-nazi attitudes and his use of trump to get his way in America.
Elon wants government money subsidies and no corporate taxes and deregulation and removal of monopoly restrictions. Trump will give him all these things. But he doesn't really care about a government appointment.
It’s classic Trump to go overboard. Ever notice that his lies are always over the top? He’s the “best,” has the “most,” is the “richest,” has the “best words,” (whatever the fuck that even means). So the diaper strapped to the side of his head is right on point for Trump. Such an obvious conman.
So true. “I know more about ISIS than the generals do,” “only I can fix this,” “I’m the least racist person you’ll ever meet,” etc. How is this not a red flag to the MAGAts?!!
mouth opened before brain started. If he has dementia, that just adds another dimension to his bigly words and more. I can’t stand anything about trump, but can’t blame dementia on a trait of his low class.
He's always been a creepy weirdo. Years ago, David Letterman used to have him on his show to basically make fun of him to his face because he's too stupid to pick up on the fact that he was being insulted for being a cartoonish "rich guy."
What a crock of garbage to ban Souza from X for showing Trump’s non-marred ear. And since Musk supports Trump and his cronies even though he knows flat out Trump is a pathological liar, I guess he should have waited for the best candidate in Kamala Harris’ run for the WH. Sometimes even the wealthiest men on the planet fear well educated women in the legal world.
Elon is a South African Apartheid racist and has 188 million followers. He’s convinced all the white boys that they’re victims and should vote for a RAPIST! He has 11 children by countless women and he is the epitome of the man he supports - a misogynist and a vile human! RACIST AS THEY COME - IT’S IN HIS SO AFRICAN DNA!
Elon's quote isn't factual. If elected Trump and big oil and other polluters will be the ones to bring about the extinction of not only humanity, but life if they are allowed to do as they wish.
Pete Souza is a national treasure. Not just because of this. He is a witness to history and knows BS from truth.
Pretty brave of Souza to do this but I still want to see a more factual detailed medical report! It’s traumatic to be shot, or shot at, but don’t embellish (lie) your injury. We actually would not have thought less of you (trump) if you had released the med report asap!
I find it hard to believe there's not more scabbing.
Especially in a man his age.
Must have been very small then. That's another negative about him. So secretive. No tax returns released, medical reports not released, WH visitor logs not released, secret meetings with who knows who., etc. Lies and cover ups are standard with him.
That’s bc when your doing illegal things, you hide it…why else wouldn’t he show is tax returns like every other president did before him…he’s a liar and a cheat at everything he does.
Exactly! Everything. His whole life.
More scabbing than none? Because I see no injury whatsoever. Not a scratch.
Tiny tiny little
Red abrasion on the top curve. No way was that a bullet. But what was it.
Then there was that pic with the bullet wizzing. That was suspect from The beginning.
It was staged..I will never believe otherwise. They probably told the kid they’d give him a million dollars if he got up on that roof and shot into the air…unfortunately he did what he did, but I serious doubt that trump was ever in danger as a target…and he definitely didn’t “take” a bullet, as he said. Pathetic huckster!
A man died.
And that is the tragic part of this.. but I still feel that there is more to it than has come to light. Trump could shut us all up, quite easily, if he were honest and released the official medical records. Even the head of the FBI said he hasn’t gotten any “official” accounting of his injury.
Has anyone seen any news on his parents after all this time?
Photo shopped or something more technically advanced?
Obviously must have been glass or FOD from one of the stray bullets, nicking his ear! Hope else could it be healed so miraculously fast?!
I can tell you based on the research I've had to do and another still-frame of the bullet in motion that what injured Trump was the air displacement of the bullet.
If he'd been struck anywhere on the ear by the actual round fired from an AR-15 - even just clipped - it would have torn most of his ear completely off and possibly part of his face or scalp. AR-15s inflict their signature devastating degree of damage to living tissue because they fire small rounds at unbelievable velocity.
This is the most interesting possibility I’ve heard. Thanks for sharing.
High velocity air displacement can tear the skin? Really hope the truth comes out, not to minimize the trauma of being shot at but for the accountability of always trying to fool the public!
High-velocity air displacement can tear limbs completely off if there's enough of it (think of being in exactly the wrong place inside the funnel of a tornado, where wind shear is going one direction at 150 mph and downdraft is going the other direction at 180 mph.)
As a teen I worked for my dad at his machine shop, and one day he had me buffing small parts on the belt sander. An industrial belt sander like ours turns at 2-3K rpms. I pushed one part just a tiny bit too hard and the belt sander seized i and dragged it into the belt feed (those parts were just the right size to fit between the gap where the belt and the work platform meet, and the protective cover ovr the belt.) The part getting dragged in dragged my fingers in towards the belt along with the part. I managed to let go in that split second, so instead of losing most of my fingers on both hands to the mid-knuckle, all I lost were my fingerprints from every finger, both hands - from the air displacement from the surface of the band saw.
Here's a still frame that happens to have caught the air trail of the first bullet. The resistance of air creates a frictive drag on the bullet, which drags that air pocket behind. Trump was close enough that the kinetic energy carried in that air pocket split the skin of his ear. If it had been a closer miss, he would have been burned instead of or, in addition to being cut (the friction that causes the air to behave like that also heats up the air to crazy temperatures.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/photo-path-trump-assassination.html
That is incredibly interesting, thank you for sharing. Is this the reason that FBI confirms that his injury was from an actual bullet?
I would assume so; the statement is factually accurate but extremely disingenuous since most people will interpret it to mean he was actually struck by the bullet, not just injured by the bullet's passing.
Woah I’m so sorry about your accident and relieved you have your fingers! My dad also had a shop injury and wasn’t as lucky but he never let it stop him lol. Really great info from you/incredible descriptions! And this article has been out since June 14 but I missed it 🥴 so thanks again. You should be on news channels explaining this to us laymen!!
I’ve understood about the high velocity-air displacement damage caused by bombs but never thought about a bullet having similar power.
Just sickens me more than ever the choices trump makes to exaggerate or lie. He’ll definitely take the truth of his ear injury to the grave!
Yeah, the AR-15 is famous for being one of the most difficult gun injuries to survive, no matter where it hits you. If there is any comfort to be found for the victims of mass shooters, it's that victims suffer, but not for long.
*July 14
Picture of trump “taking a bullet for his country.” What a frippin’ hero he is, not to mention brave!
Argh……
Not!!
Personally I do not believe it was staged. He thot he was hit by a bullet. So did everyone else. My guess it was a fragment from a bullet that had hit something else first. I agree there is no way he would survive an actual hit from an ar-15. Bullets from ARs have a tumbler effect when they make contact. Even a grazing causes extraordinary damage. Like a true sociopath he took advantage of a terrible situation and lied about it for his advantage. He got his picture tho… I m sure he’s pissed cause the narrative was flipped in a week and his ‘sure to win’ went down the drain. He will take that secret to the grave after he has gotten every last dollar out of it.
No, they do not tumble. You are thinking of the M-16, which uses a much larger round and the tumbling effect primarily occurs when the round first punctures body armor. AR-15 .227's are moving at such a velocity that they completely destabilize on impact, which is much worse. However, as with all bullets, they are completely stable while in motion through air, so there were no fragments of bullet at the point he was injured.
Air displacement, which I linked a picture to elsewhere, is the only way a round from an AR 15 caused such a minor injury.
As I have said before, if he had been his with the round itself, even a tiny clip of his ear would have torn his ear and probably part of his face and scalp completely off. Impact to any hard tissue at all, even glancing, would have left him with life-threatening injuries.
That’s sad. No wonder so many people are killed and damaged. In a group.
I didn’t know exactly what that firearm did to your insides🤢
Fair enough. From what I know about him, he seems a man of integrity but it’s always better to corroborate
I follow Pete Souza, and he has been off social media and traveling/vacationing for a week and he posted that he didn’t know about the controversy and said he was not banned from X—he did it accidentally to himself. He should be back on by now. Is he?
I hate Muskox and his fascist ideas so greatly that I just deleted his shitty app the other day.
ℹ guess Elon didn’t like the truth 😡
I say everyone just dump Twitter worldwide
I finally left just as musk was switching the name to X. It was sad for me because my son’s sports coaches/schools posted most there and there were some really great people that don’t really use other platforms; however, the maga feeds blewwwww uppp and it was disgusting! I refused to support this guys neo-nazi attitudes and his use of trump to get his way in America.
Bingo! Substack is much better anyway… very few trolls will pay to comment.
I say everyone just dump Twitter worldwide
Absolutely!! 👏👏👏
What’s taking so long?
Such a dork
He needs to go get more hair plugs so he can “date” more z list actresses and shut the hell up about US politics. He should be deported.
Love it!!
Elon is Shitler’s sidekick thinking he can get a position in the WH. Such disturbed individuals they both are.
Elon wants government money subsidies and no corporate taxes and deregulation and removal of monopoly restrictions. Trump will give him all these things. But he doesn't really care about a government appointment.
As what, more than one arse in trumps proposed cabinet
You mean he might have lied? Oh no!
I. Am. So. Surprised. And. Shocked.
Sarcasm is lovely, isn’t it?
Shocked, I tell you! Shocked!
😂
Coulda’ knocked me over with a feather!
Makes that huge bandage seem like overkill, don’t it?
It’s classic Trump to go overboard. Ever notice that his lies are always over the top? He’s the “best,” has the “most,” is the “richest,” has the “best words,” (whatever the fuck that even means). So the diaper strapped to the side of his head is right on point for Trump. Such an obvious conman.
So true. “I know more about ISIS than the generals do,” “only I can fix this,” “I’m the least racist person you’ll ever meet,” etc. How is this not a red flag to the MAGAts?!!
“I’m the chosen one” Yeah, to be dumped and doing jail time, like any other felon.
Hope springs eternal
“Best words” would be bigly and mostly when
mouth opened before brain started. If he has dementia, that just adds another dimension to his bigly words and more. I can’t stand anything about trump, but can’t blame dementia on a trait of his low class.
He's always been a creepy weirdo. Years ago, David Letterman used to have him on his show to basically make fun of him to his face because he's too stupid to pick up on the fact that he was being insulted for being a cartoonish "rich guy."
😂😂
Yep!
Let's not forget that while the Mango lies about his ear, a man died protecting his family and two other men were hospitalized.
Donald Trump wants to go back to Butler County to re-enact it.
I did not agree politically with Corey Comperatora but he deserves better than to be made a prop in Donnie boy's fantasies.
Trumps plan all along. The shooter the female leader the supporters. All
Expendable to him.
I agree Bridget… really sad that decent peeps were caught up in this mess.
Oh, Elon again. "Boys will be boys." Some never grow up.
Glad to see Souza's photo of The Donald's ear. An awful lot of media are doing a bang-up job of cover-ups. Who's financing that? Thiel?
Also Elon, maybe even the waltons and I am not talking Johnboy
No, the rich Waltons. There are so many off the cliff right wingers - the Mercers, Leonard Leo who's bankrolled Thomas...so many.
As someone on this thread said, it was hardly impressive!
But I thought Trump took a bullet for the country. Oh my, the truth hurts more than the shard of glass.
😂😂😂😂😂
I know. That description is disgusting, coming from Capt. Bone Spurs🤢
What a crock of garbage to ban Souza from X for showing Trump’s non-marred ear. And since Musk supports Trump and his cronies even though he knows flat out Trump is a pathological liar, I guess he should have waited for the best candidate in Kamala Harris’ run for the WH. Sometimes even the wealthiest men on the planet fear well educated women in the legal world.
Trump owns everyone it seems
It does seem, but not everyone. There are still some good guys and women around……
No not everyone. But he knows who to own.
Today a friend used almost the same words to me.
He’s got such a sensitive ego. Dishes it out all day, but can’t take it. Loser
And who does that also define!
Hmmmm is he orange??
Elon is a South African Apartheid racist and has 188 million followers. He’s convinced all the white boys that they’re victims and should vote for a RAPIST! He has 11 children by countless women and he is the epitome of the man he supports - a misogynist and a vile human! RACIST AS THEY COME - IT’S IN HIS SO AFRICAN DNA!
Isn't the number of children twelve? I heard he tried to say his transgendered child is dead, but they are not.
You have to be a total asshole to reject your most vulnerable child!
Isn’t that sickening🤢! No wonder she disowned him after that cruel response!
Elon's quote isn't factual. If elected Trump and big oil and other polluters will be the ones to bring about the extinction of not only humanity, but life if they are allowed to do as they wish.
So easy to setup ahead of time. Classic Hollywood effect.
YELLING FONT: AND NO-ONE KNOWS THE NAME OF THE POOR MAGA WHO WAS SACRIFICED FOR THIS CHARADE.
Yes the shooter of choice sacrificed. A female
Leader sacrificed. A
Father sacrificed and two other lives and many that will never be the same
Some poor, expendable kid.
Bless Pete Souza. He’s a no BS guy who displays it like it is.
FFS
Pardon my ignorance, but what does FFS mean? I think I’ve got the first F 😁
“For” ….´s ”sake”
(What my grandchildren call “the big one “ )
Thank you. I like it!!
Would someone kindly remind me who is the party of cancel culture again?
😂😝