Aatube

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[–] Aatube@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Note that Crooks is the name of the attempted assassin, not the secret service. He fired at him so I would not call it a stray bullet.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

where can I find this final conclusion?

[–] Aatube@piefed.social -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't remember Trump as being "just fine". I remember a very visible bandage on his ear for weeks.

Edit: Am I wrong? His bandage at the Republican Convention was all over the news and a MAGA fashion trend. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4795636-trump-without-bandage-ear/ 26-13 days is two weeks.

And though the https://www.nickiswift.com/1909492/plastic-surgeon-trump-ear-injury-one-year-after-butler-shooting/ article is tabloid, it has a great closeup of the war. See it for yourself how obviously wrong the ear looks a year after it was shot. No evidence has been presented that he was "just fine".

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I don't like the conspiracy theories going on here. If it were staged, why would the gunman be off-camera to fire the shots? Wouldn't we get more dramatic imagery? Everything in the footage seems awkward, not like tense danger. Trump doesn't even realize (not to mention react) when the shots are fired (which, btw, were in the hallway outside just in case this is how somebody learns that this happened) until 20 seconds after.

A society with an endless deluge of information increasingly known as "may contain distortions of reality" tends to make anyone lose their minds, one way or another.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 0 points 4 days ago (11 children)

sauce? there is zoomed-in footage of blood soon after the audible batch of shots.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The bullet that grazed Trump's ear has been analyzed to death as too close to be fatal from the gunman's distance to reliably stage. There are numerous more plausible explanations than the one the video puts forward.

  1. It is obvious that there might be good-looking photos if you take enough of them at any historical event. We already know that GOP campaigners cunningly used the assassination to their advantage for propaganda; the staffer is simply realizing that photos off the vent should be taken.
  2. At the end it looks more like he's telling the photographers to keep their distance and pulling them away from Trump. There is absolutely no way he can see the camera viewfinder from such a distance, which is needed to decide on how to adjust the framing as the video purports he's doing.
  3. The flag is simply being seen from a different angle. Throughout the video, the cameraman is approaching the gates, and then he tilts the camera upwards and then downwards. The former brings the flag into view and the latter is why the flag also looks like it's being raised right after 0:36. Cross-reference the footage with https://www.youtube.com/live/Rr63RgGN-Yo?t=24263 (in both footage you see an agent go to the outermost. in the long livestream this is immediately followed by an agent waving Trump's red cap.), a wide view, and the flag seems static.
[–] Aatube@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

I don't see how that relates to the content of the deleted comments I can see from the modlog.

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