“There is some question about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.

FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during a marathon testimony on Wednesday that investigators still do not know if former President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel during his attempted assassination.

Twice during the hours-long session, Wray told lawmakers that the FBI was still working to determine what exactly struck the former president on his right ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “My understanding is that either it [a bullet] or some shrapnel is what grazed his ear,” Wray told Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA).

  • LengAwaits@lemmy.world
    12·
    4 months ago

    Reposting from an earlier comment I made:

    Best we have right now, far as I can find:

    Expand for bloody ear photo

    My favorite tinfoil hat theory is that one of the secret service members had a razor palmed, which they then used to slice his ear when they took him to ground. I’m not saying I believe that, of course, but it seems the most plausible to me.

    Here's a photo of the same ear taken sometime on or before Jan 2019.

    Edit to add: Armchair analysis. Maybe it sorta looks like some of the helix (both tubercle and crus sides) flesh is missing from a graze, here?

    Expand for a bloody ear photo with lines drawn on it

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      That’s definitely the best I’ve seen so far. Wish we had more angles - looking straight on, it’s hard to assess if chunks are missing, or if that’s just how the red shit dried.

    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
      52·
      4 months ago

      I don’t get how the blood managed to streak all the way down his face so quickly but then appears to have stopped bleeding by the time this photo was taken. Blood follows gravity so if it was gushing enough to reach his chins during the few moments he was kneeling down behind the podium, why isn’t it now draining down toward his shoulder?

      • Pheonixdown@lemm.ee
        6·
        4 months ago

        It is was probably transferred from his ear to chin/cheek by something like the floor, his hand or SS. That’d explain why there isn’t a trail and it appears blotchy.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        Very thin blood vessels in the ears, so they’ll bleed a bit quickly, but then also congeal rather fast.

        I couldn’t care less about the facts of this, but bleeding from ears is quite like that, yea