CFordUNC
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Thought this was worthy of its own thread. To be very clear, the probability of Trump having been hit by shrapnel instead of a bullet does *not* lesson the seriousness of an assassination attempt against an American presidential candidate. Period, full stop. I repeat: the probability of Trump having been hit by shrapnel instead of a bullet does *not* lesson the seriousness of an assassination attempt against an American presidential candidate.
That said, this was always the most obvious occurrence once he *immediately* announced it was a bullet on social media, followed by his campaign being issues a complete silence gag order, followed by no official medical report of any kind, followed by Trump's appearing on the golf course the very next day without anything on his ear yet coming out to the RNC the following day wearing a maxi pad on his ear.
Again, the fact that it was probably shrapnel doesn't diminish the severity of the assassination attempt, but it does further reveal how unfathomably dishonest Trump and his entire campaign are. It was always pretty clear to those of us with even a passing semblance of knowledge about guns and human anatomy, that Trump was not hit or even grazed by a round fired by an AR-15.