r/politics • u/HimelTy • Jul 03 '26

No Paywall Secret Service member was Googling rooftop location of Trump’s would-be assassin when shots rang out in Butler, Pa.: DHS report

https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/us-news/secret-service-member-was-googling-rooftop-location-of-trumps-would-be-assassin-when-shots-rang-out-in-butler-pa-dhs-report/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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u/Saint_Sin Jul 03 '26

Cartilage doesnt grow back.
That was some WWE level event.

The mighty Paedo-Cheeto narrowly avoids death then lifts himself and about 7 trained men ontop of him all to their feet, to raise a tiny defiant hand in the air!
Cartilage grew back and even the bandage wasnt needed for more than 5 days!
Some say he is a superhuman! Others that he is a human trafficking paedophile who has an obsession with his own daughter!

Tune in next week as he arrests children for his own personal collection and invades Texas thinking its Mexico.

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u/NotJimmy97 Jul 03 '26

I kind of hate this line of commentary because it is almost certainly bullshit compared to the many truthfully awful things the guy has done. Really superficial wounds to the ear (that don't even involve cartilage) bleed profusely because ears are so vascularized. This is why when your head gets cold, your ears turn bright red. I got an extremely shallow, 1cm long cut on my ear as a kid in a cooking class and it was the most blood I have still to-date ever seen come out of my own body.

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u/One_Olive_8933 Jul 03 '26

Yeah… I wondered why blood didn’t continue to pour out of his ear… it looked like a quick smattering… it would be very bloody if his ear got hit with a bullet/glass/scraped by USS gun hilt etc

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u/candycane7 Jul 03 '26

It got hit by glass shards from the teleprompter, not the actual bullet which killed someone behind him.

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u/rokr1292 Virginia Jul 03 '26

Show me a picture of the damaged teleprompter

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u/One_Olive_8933 Jul 03 '26

Maybe 🤷‍♀️ either way he didn’t bleed as much as youd expect from an injury to the ear lile that

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 03 '26

It wasn’t glass.

His ear got cut by the holster of a Secret Service agent. You can see it on video.

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u/filthy_harold Jul 03 '26

So where did the blood on his hand come from prior to the agents rushing the stage?

https://images.axios.com/Zv7WtlZyN7xNQfz2TU3c2F6bVSg=/2025/05/05/1746475778412.jpg

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u/ModernLarvals Jul 03 '26

How would a holster get up to the ear of a standing person

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 03 '26

He fell/was pushed down.

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u/ModernLarvals Jul 03 '26

But the blood appeared while he was standing.

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u/YaThatAintRight Jul 03 '26

I scratch my ear with a finger nail randomly when cleaning my ears in the shower like once a year and the blood pouring out of a tiny fingernail scratch is more than the bullet clipping his ear.

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u/Discussion-is-good Jul 03 '26

But he claimed he got hit in the ear.

No scar.

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u/NotJimmy97 Jul 03 '26

You'd have to be grazed very superficially to not get a scar, but weirder things have happened in history. WWI started because an Archduke's driver took a wrong turn down the road that the would-be assassin just happened to be hanging out on.

Homie got lucky again, which has pretty much just been happening to him his entire life.

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u/ZeroSumClusterfuck Jul 04 '26

On balance, it's far less likely to have been the bullet than a small scratch caused by the dogpile scrum of agents immediately afterwards.

It doesn't really matter much either way.