Summary
During a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump criticized the bulletproof glass surrounding him, joking that an assassin would need to “shoot through the fake news” to reach him, a remark aimed at the press positioned behind the glass.
He called the media “bloodsuckers” and mocked the glass’s size, referencing prior assassination attempts, including a July incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a bullet grazed him and an audience member was killed.
Trump added that his supporters serve as his “glass” for protection: “Glass here. There’s nothing over there. They’re my glass. See? Those people are my glass,” Trump said, pointing to the crowd.
This is typical conspiracy theory crap. The entire thing is based entirely on the idea that Doug Mills faked not one but three separate photographs: 1) the bullet mid-flight, 2) the photo with blood on his hand before he goes down, and 3) the one with blood on his face while he’s down.
I highly doubt Mills faked three photographs to conspire with a shooter so accurate he was able to precisely miss in order to facilitate this bizarre theory. The dude even puts the Mills’ photos in his video and basically does a “fake? I’m just asking questions. Do your own research.”
How this kind of crap gets and holds people’s attention is beyond me. But believe what you want, it doesn’t really matter one way or the other.
I’m just looking at the video of Trump crouching down and plausibly colliding with the holster. I don’t know how any of what you’re saying is relevant.
I’m coming for the previous belief that he was shot. However, the lack of clear injury and medical report do raise questions. It seems far more likely to me that he just smash his ear on the holster than a bullet hitting him. That’s just logical to me.
It’s relevant because the video literally shows the Doug Mills photograph capturing Trump’s blood-smeared hand immediately after he grabbed his ear, just before being tackled. So, your “logic” entails time travel, a vast conspiracy involving a NYT photographer, a hyper-accurate sniper, and fake-blood capsules—or all of the above—to explain it as the result of a holster alone.
Unless you’re inclined to believe the conspiracy theory promoted by the video—which appears to be the case, given that you’re attributing the injury to an unseen holster rather than the bullet (also photographed) or bullet-related shrapnel—it would be “just logical” to trust the direct photographic evidence over a random YouTube conspiracy theory.
This is precisely how disinformation spreads. And, like many who propagate it, you don’t even realize you’re doing it.
I really don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m talking about the video of the actual live event which clearly shows a holster on the belt of the agent and Trump crouching down next to it. That is all. It’s clear, in the actual video, that Trump does not have blood on his hand when he checks it before he crouches down.
