08/12/2024
Trump photographed without his giant ear bandage with little to no injury to "pierced ear" weeks later
As reported by Daily Beast, questions continue to rudiment about the situation where a young Republican shot Trump in the head -- not helped by statement made by the Republican Party members, nor by Trump, which don't seem to jive with the actual facts -- which by itself is their norm.
"Photos from Trump’s sit down with Netanyahu appear to show the former president’s ear intact without major scabbing or scarring. In one image, the former president points out the site of injury to the Israeli prime minister.
According to former White House physician Ronny Jackson, a bullet took the top of Trump’s ear off. On Wednesday, however, FBI Director Christopher Wray said that investigators did not know if the former president was grazed by a bullet or shrapnel during the shooting."
FBI Director appointed by Trump questioned if Trump was shot with a bullet at all
Wray had expressed concern that it appeared that Trump may not have been shot by a bullet.
"Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday that it was not clear whether former President Donald Trump was shot or hit by shrapnel when a gunman opened fire at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.
The FBI is investigating the July 13 shooting, which killed one rally-goer and seriously injured two others before the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot dead by the Secret Service.
Trump was rushed off stage with a bloodied ear. He said that night that he was "shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear." He said he heard "a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin" in a post on his Truth Social platform.
A week after the shooting, the Trump campaign released a doctor's note from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson—who had served as Trump's White House physician—that said Trump sustained a gunshot wound to his right ear that was "less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.""
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-might-not-have-been-shot-after-all/ar-BB1qBW61
Trump specified a "chunk" of his ear was gone, which would have left a scar and taken time to heal
Similarly, Trump specified that a "chunk" of his ear was gone, and so this is more than grazing his ear, this is removal of a "chunk" of his ear, which is serious enough damage to have left a scar, and/or required much more than 13 days to heal, especially at his age, and especially a cartilage injury, calling into question the truthfulness of Trump being shot in a whole different way.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2480001/donald-trump-confirms-that-a-chunk-of-his-ear-is-gone
There is no known footage to us that proves that Trump was shot -- only footage of Trump doing something to his own ear, then ducking out of site as he did the same, only to come up all bloodied -- though his cult followers were obviously shot and died because of him, in the context that he disqualified himself from public office BEFORE the 2016 elections in a treason and elections fraud conspiracy with U.S. enemy Russia, and so if the law had actually been applied to him, he would not have developed a cult, and they would not have been killed at a rally that Trump wasn't allowed to host. But for the ongoing RICO obstruction of justice of Trump's disqualifying crimes via many different spokes, these people would not have been murdered. Here we are not advocating that Trump harmed himself, but we wouldn't put it past him, as a very sick person in constant need of attention, like a 4 year old child, which is the mental age psychologists have pegged Trump at, per Psychology Today.
Scabs caused by deeper injuries to skin -- not cartilage -- can take weeks or more to heal
"Dr. William Blahd on WebMD says that small scrapes and scabs usually heal within 3 days to a week. Larger, deeper wounds may take 2 weeks or longer for the wound to heal completely and the scab to disappear".
Trump was allegedly shot on July 13, 2024.
On July 26, 2024, Trump was photographed at his residence without the massive ear bandage he sported in public, which is 13 days, so not even two weeks.
Trump specified his ear was "pierced" by a bullet, which should have left a hole the size of at least as wide as a pencil for smaller caliber ammunition.
Except the rifle recovered was an AK-47, though other reporting has specified it was an AR-15. How is it that we don't even know specifically what type of gun was used here?
An AK-47 can only fire a bullet that is the following size, 7.62x39mm, and so about a 1/3 of an inch at the widest part of an unfired bullet.
https://thegunzone.com/what-size-bullet-for-an-ak-47/
Accordingly, if a bullet "pierced" Trump's ear as he said it did, then there would be a hole at least the size of one 1/3 of an inch in Trump's ear, but there isn't a hole 1/3 of an inch in Trump's ear, nor could such an injury have healed in 13 days.
Scars never go away
And so within 13 days Trump not only allegedly healed from a hole in his ear a third of an inch in diameter but the scab and the scar also disappeared, and yet scars never go away.
"Treatments can reduce a scar’s size or appearance, but the scar will never completely go away."
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/11030-scars
Cartilage injuries remain one of the most difficult healing challenges in medicine says Yale Medicine
Besides the obvious, where the photo above seems to prove that no part of Trump's ear appears to have been "pierced" nor "taken off", some research on ear injuries and on injury repair among seniors seems to suggest that there is no way that Trump could have healed from a pierced ear in such a short amount of time at his age.
The ear is made of cartilage, and cartilage injuries per Dr. Christine Allan of Yale Medicine Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation Sports Medicine and head team physician for Yale Athletics, remain "one of the most difficult challenges in medicine."
https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/cartilage-injury-and-repair
And yet about two weeks later Trump's ear "piercing", allegedly with a bullet, doesn't appear to be an ear any different than anyone in the room with him. This of course calls into question whether or not Trump was actually shot in the ear by a bullet that pierced his ear, in support of Chris Wray's analysis, and the DOJ's familiarity of what gun shot injuries are supposed to look like, and where Ronnie Walker and/or Trump is and/or are (a) known liar(s).
Age and overhaul health significantly impact the rate at which people may heal
Furthermore, "The choice of treatment depends on several factors, including age and overall health, physical activity level, desired post-treatment activities, and the type and severity of the articular cartilage injury."
https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/cartilage-injury-and-repair
And where at 78, Trump is almost 80 years old, and in terrible physical or seemingly obese shape (likely due to his bad genes), and so the healing of "one of the most difficult challenges in medicine" likely would not have healed that quickly given Trump's presumed obesity and his well-advanced age, Trump being around the age when most men die.
"In general, healthy individuals younger than 40 with minor articular cartilage injuries have the best outcomes and often successfully return to pre-injury activities. But not every patient is a suitable candidate for cartilage restoration or repair. These procedures are ideal for active people under age 50."
https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/cartilage-injury-and-repair
"Unlike other types of tissue, cartilage does not have its own blood supply. Blood cells help to repair damaged tissue, therefore damaged cartilage does not heal as quickly as damaged skin or muscles."
https://www.livehealthily.com/health-library/conditions/cartilage-damage
And so part of the reason why cartilage fails to readily heal in young healthy people is that it does not have its own blood supply, and where being in seemingly very poor health like Trump, further reduces blood flow to injuries, and being as old as Trump even further reduces the rate of healing, and so am intact ear that was pierced by a bullets weeks earlier doesn't seem like it would have had sufficient time to heal without a scam or scar, supporting the FBI Director's analysis that Trump wasn't shot in the head or ear with a bullet, and that Trump's ear wasn't pierced by a bullet, nor the top part of his ear taken off, without a scab nor scar weeks later, seemingly an impossibility.
"After having an arthroscopy, your surgeon should be able to determine the extent of the damage. Cartilage damage is measured in grades from 0 to 4, where grade 0 indicates no damage and grade 4 indicates severe damage. The grades are described in more detail below.
- Grade 0: the cartilage is undamaged and intact
- Grade 1: the cartilage has some blistering and softening
- Grade 2: there is a minor defect (less than 50%) in the cartilage, or minor tears in the surface of the cartilage
- Grade 3: there is a deeper defect (more than 50%) in the cartilage
- Grade 4: the cartilage has lost all of its thickness"
https://www.livehealthily.com/health-library/conditions/cartilage-damage
Trump's seemingly quack doctor Ronnie Walker specified that the top of Trump's ear was "taken off", and Trump specified his ear was "pierced" and so we can rule out Grade 0 based on their collectively statements, and jump right to Grade 2, where at the very least there is a minor tear in the surface of the cartilage, but with the removal of the top of the ear and "piercing" of the ear with a bullet, we can readily jump to Grade 4, because pierced cartilage is a loss of all thickness, in that a piercing causes a hole or absence of cartilage, and where the type of bullet used had to have left at least a third of an inch hole in Trump's ear, if his ear was pierced (and not torn) by a bullet like he said, which per usual, the evidence doesn't support Trump's claim here.
And so could one of the most difficult tissues to heal in medicine in young healthy people heal in two weeks in a fat old man with bad genes, when the severity of the injury to the cartilage was arguably the most severe it could be? The answer is more likely not.
"Besides the quickness of the actual piercing event, you should also consider other factors such as healing time for cartilage piercings which tend to take longer compared to lobe piercings due to lesser blood supply in cartilages."
https://earwellcenters.com/cartilage-ear/
And so cartilage is a tissue that arguably takes among the longest to heal in healthy young people, but Trump is almost 80, and seemingly obese, and so it should have taken him much longer to heal an ear that was "pierced" by a bullet than two weeks.
For comparison, an expert in age-based differences in healing specified the following, "I am physician who studies how aging predisposes patients to diseases like diabetes and whether behavioral changes such as intermittent fasting may slow down aging. In order to understand why the skin wound in my older patient healed so slowly, it is important to first understand how wounds heal under the ideal conditions of youth ... I recently visited an 83-year-old patient in the hospital after EMTs rushed her to the ER with an infected leg wound. Her ordeal started inconspicuously when she bumped into the sharp edge of a table and developed a small cut. The patient’s wound didn’t close, but she ignored it until she woke up in pain one morning two weeks after first injuring her leg. Her daughter called 911 after noticing angry, red skin discoloration and pus – both signs of an infection. Our medical team treated her with IV antibiotics and cleared up the infection, but the wound did not fully close until at least a month later, well after she was discharged from the hospital.
How different the story is when children get a cut. They may scream initially, but within days, the scab falls off, revealing new skin. Why was healing so delayed in my 83-year-old patient compared to a healthy child?
The answer is age. Decades of life slow down healing for most tissues, and wounds in skin can offer a window into why this slowdown occurs."
https://theconversation.com/why-do-older-people-heal-more-slowly-146182
Trump is five years younger than this person, and it took at least a month to heal a small cut to the skin, but where the skin has a blood flow to the same, unlike cartilage, and so it is reasonable that someone Trump's age would take more than one month to heal from a "pierced" cartilage, or the removal of the top part of his ear, and yet zero scabs and zero scars per the reporting on the same.
Trump's age, when coupled to his grotesque obesity, would have further slowed his healing
Though it is obvious looking at him from really any angle, Trump has a history of obesity, "Results showed the president weighed in at 244 pounds -- up one pound from his last reported physical -- passing the official threshold of being considered obese for at least the second year in a row.
The president's lab values and test results were within normal range, including his screening for diabetes (A1C), high cholesterol (lipid panel) and high blood pressure -- important conditions to look for in an obese individual, according to medical experts."
"One major way aging can derail the orderly and efficient progression through the stages of healing is through the health problems that stem from diseases of old age.
Diabetes is one example of a disease that is strongly associated with older age. One of the many ways that diabetes negatively affects healing is by causing blood vessels to narrow. As a consequence of inadequate circulation, crucial nutrients and oxygen do not reach the wound in sufficient quantities to fuel the second regenerative phase.
Diabetes is just one of many age-related diseases that disrupts normal processes in the body such as wound healing."
https://theconversation.com/why-do-older-people-heal-more-slowly-146182
Accordingly, Trump's and/or Ronnie Walker's public statements about the top of Trump's ear being taken off, and "pierced" by a bullet -- which are not the same things, because a piercing is a hole, and the top of the ear being taken off is more than a hole -- coupled to photos of Trump's ear about two weeks later, which reporting specified was without a scab or scar -- coupled to Trump's advance age and obesity likely linked to diabetes, which likely would have resulted in a healing rate of much greater than a month -- calls into question the truth of Trump's and/or Ronnie Walker's claims regarding Trump's ear injury.
In support of Chris Wray and the FBI, the evidence doesn't seem to prove that Trump's ear was "pierced with a bullet", nor the top of his ear taken away, and where Trump made a hand movement to his ear and ducked down like a coward (God or Jesus would not need to cower from a radical with a gun, and would have stopped the lad from killing Trump's cult members) around the time Republicans were being shot by a Republican. But with no scar nor scab two weeks later, is it possible that Trump had others killed, faked an ear injury, and then fist pumped the air, to "engineer" a sympathy vote?
Trump does have a well-documented history of being the "Great Deceiver", which in the Bible is a reference to Satan, and where his own staff have expressed and/or proven that he is a liar, and in fact that he has trained them to lie by repetition. He has been clocked lying more than an average of 20 times per day every day by Washington Post, during his usurping of the Oval Office, following his disqualifying treason and elections fraud crimes, when he lied more than 30,000 times, and then lied after he was ousted from office. And so is it possible Trump lied about his ear injury? It isn't just possible, but probable based on the available evidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Deceiver
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-finally-admits-defeat-i-didnt-win-election-1695339
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/opinion/trump-lies-charts-data.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j9F3HwOha0
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/04/politics/fact-check-trump-time-magazine/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/fact-check-dale-top-15-donald-trump-lies/index.html
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/may/10/no-idea-who-this-woman-is-looking-at-trumps-famili/
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/02/politifact-donald-trump-lies-fact-checking.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
https://www.propublica.org/article/big-lie-trump-stolen-election-inside-creation
This analysis of Trump's alleged injury was conducted with the aid of a former paid medical expert for criminal cases in Utah, who is a veteran, and who separately worked alongside Sacramento Police.
Conclusion: We support Chris Wray's and the FBI's original conclusions -- that it is questionable and/or even improbable that Trump's ear was "pierced" by an AK-47 bullet, like Trump said, seemingly another "big lie".