Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet during the assassination attempt… at least that’s what a ballistics expert deduces from the way the former president’s injured ear is healing.
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Leonardo Romero — a firearms forensics expert who has worked closely with the LAPD and several other law enforcement agencies in the area — told TMZ … The rapid healing of Trump’s ear is not evidence that he was not hit (as some have suggested), but rather the opposite … in fact, it is consistent with a bullet graze, as opposed to a more direct impact.
07/13/24
Leonard explains that… a scratch only touches the surface of the skin — it’s more like a graze or a scratch, and doesn’t cause serious damage, even when the bullet is from an AR-15 assault rifle, as was the case here.
Trump was bleeding from his ear afterwards Thomas Matthew Crooks squeezed shots to him during his July 13 rally in Pennsylvania…so he used a solid bandage to the subsequent RNC, where he accepted the Republican Party’s presidential nomination and has since abandoned the bandage overall… and your ear doesn’t have any major scars visible to the naked eye.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray at the beginning I said there was any question whether or not Trump was hit by a bullet… but the FBI ended up retreated and said: “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, either whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased’s rifle.”
Leonard says the video of the shooting gives no indication that Trump was grazed by a bullet fragment… instead, he tells us he’s confident the bullet grazed Trump’s ear before hitting anything else… and he doesn’t believe Trump was cut by shards of glass from a teleprompter.
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Sure, we heard from someone connected to the Secret Service that he was possibly cut by glass — or some other material that ricocheted off the bullet — but Romero doesn’t seem to agree.
Either way, it looks like Trump got very lucky here… Leonard says a .223 caliber bullet like the one the shooter used causes devastating injuries on direct impact.
Once again, Trump’s ear is still intact and unscarred or mutilated… which reinforces what Leonard is saying here.
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Thank goodness Trump turned his head!!!