Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage

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Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage
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Holy shit, he had blood on his ear? If that’s true, he was about a foot away from assassination. That’s wild.

Edit: saw a picture of him and he was def hit in the ear. We won’t hear the end of this for a long time. “Radical democrats are so scared that I’m going to win” etc

Edit 2: let’s do count of “how many push notifications does the news junkie get?” I’m at 3 4 7 so far. Edit: it’s a lot more than 7 but I’m done counting

He put his hand up to his ear before he went down and you can see blood on his face when Secret Service took him away. Whoever it was missed him by that much.

And yet, nobody in the crowd behind him was hit? That's... really hard to believe.

There was blood in the crowd supposedly. Maybe a ricocheted bullet but it’ll be a while until we have reliable info

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Oh, we'll never have reliable info. The right-wing noise machine are already spinning up their conspiracies.

..The article was posted on NBC at 6:27, then posted here at 6:28. LESS than 30 minutes later 6:57 you declare, "we'll never have reliable info".

maybe don't listen to the "noise machine".

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I commented this earlier but I would not be surprised if the people behind him are deceptively far away and only look close at this camera angle.

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Don't jump to conclusions. Unfortunately, it's often times worse than it seems.

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In the video you can see him lifting the hand to the ear after the first bang

It looks like a chunk of his ear is blown off. Fucking insane!

Nobody in the crowd was hit with anything it seemed, so I don't think he was shot. If anything, the secret service takedown probably did whatever it was. He's never going to stfu about this. Wouldn't be surprised if this was staged.

He was bleeding before secret service got to him. The video is literally linked for you by OP.

I saw it. Didn't see any blood before he ducked, and his head was turned from the side he allegedly got hit in, so I'm not sure how you saw anything.

He wasn't shot. Pure publicity stunt. Same shit as WrestleMania.

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