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A photo of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taken on Saturday without his ear bandage has sparked a wave of speculation.
The image, taken by Alex Brandon of the Associated Press on July 27 and shared by photojournalist Pete Souza on X, formerly Twitter, shows Trump walking up an airplane staircase with an apparently fully healed ear wound just weeks after he was shot with a high-powered rifle.
Souza, known for his tenure as the chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, posted Brandon’s photo on his now-deactivated X account on Saturday, writing, “AP photo this morning. Look closely at his ear that was ‘hit’ by a bullet from an AR-15 assault rifle.”
Souza’s profile, @PeteSouza, which had over 200,000 followers, now reads, “This account doesn’t exist, try searching for another,” implying that he has deleted or deactivated it. If he had been banned, it would read, “Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X rules.”
It was just grazed and he might have had it covered with makeup, prosthetic or whatever since.
The conspiracy is crazy.
There is no “just a graze” from a 5.56 on soft tissue.
If that high-speed projectile got within a centimeter of his ear without actually touching it, there would have been serious injury due to the rapid displacement of air creating a tearing force on the soft tissue.
If his ear is not seriously damaged, it was not touched by that round at all.
This is just misinformation that has been disproved on youtube by many a people and their ar15s already. Not to mention, it could have been shrapnel.
YouTube has a bunch of 2nd shooters?