Those close to Donald Trump fear the former president “may have legit PTSD” from the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally last month.
That’s according to a Vanity Fair report published Wednesday that claimed those in Trump’s inner circle have noticed that he’s become fixated on a seven-second clip that shows the moment he nearly lost his life.
“He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,” said a Republican close to the campaign, reported Vanity Fair.
It was a lesson and he learned all the wrong things.
I hope it tears him up inside and he suffers as much as he’s hurt others.
Convince me it wasn’t their own false flag. #OperationConserve
I have seen more evidence that it was a false flag than evidence supporting that he was shot in the ear.
Yeah I still can’t get over how a couple of days later his right ear didn’t have a mark on it. At his age, even with the best of plastic surgery, he wouldn’t have clean skin on an ear for at least a week if he’d actually had a bullet pass through any part of it. I don’t believe things he has to say about his health- he has a pretty solid track record when it comes to not telling the truth about his height, weight, bone spurs, being a stable genius, etc
Are you suggesting that Trump is a supe with superhuman healing abilities?
If he had adamantium claws he would have shown them off by now
Okay, but what’s the alternative? Trump faked the whole thing in some sort of false flag? He planted a fake gunman to get killed by the secret service, and put two of his close supporters in the hospital in critical condition, for a bump in the polls, when he was already confident that he could beat Biden? Is that really a more plausible explanation than “someone decided to kill Trump over the Epstein files, missed, and was killed”? I absolutely hate the guy, buy I just don’t buy it. I can accept “he got hit by a shard of glass instead of a bullet” or “he got grazed elsewhere and it just looks like he was hit in the ear” but claiming the whole thing was faked is just a bridge too far.
We’re supposed to be above this type of shaky conspiracy theory level thinking.
FWIW, I didn’t read anything in BM’s post that made me think he was arguing the incident was fake. I interpreted that (s)he was saying it probably was other debris or shrapnel, and he’s insisting it was an actual slug to look like a tough guy.
I personally did read it that way, but I will concede that perhaps I was being uncharitable.
Regardless, I have seen people explicitly questioning whether it was faked elsewhere, and it makes me cringe every time. Talking about this serves literally zero purpose–it makes the left look crazy, any alternative explanations that make Trump look bad fall apart under the barest scrutiny, and it just serves to keep the assassination attempt in peoples’ minds. There are literally hundreds of other things to complain about Trump over, talking about this doesn’t help.
Agreed 105%, plus it’s also just plain stupid. Nobody within half a mile of Trump’s inner circle has any real competence, so the idea that any/all of them could successfully pull off a faked assassination is probably more absurd than flat earthers telling us the moon landing was rigged.
The only way I could buy it is if it came out that it was faked, but their plan involved keeping the gunman alive so he could spout fake-leftist buzzwords and they either didn’t realize that the secret service shoots to kill, or forgot to clue them into the plan ahead of time.
Has anybody considered an angel helped guide the shooter to nick trump’s ear thus giving a new level of paranoia.
I’m honestly not sure if this is a better outcome than him being dead. I think the new even more paranoid batshit Trump is doing way more damage than his literal death would have
Well there’s still time to find out if thats something you want to act on.
“a lot of people say I got a good ear. the best ear. they’re smart people. this ear fooled that bullet from hitting this youthful head. let’s see that stable genius moment again”
… is probably what he’s thinking
but i am not a mind reader.
Yeah I do not like the man at all whatsoever, but I wish this didn’t happen. Even for his own sake.
I respect your opinion but cannot agree, and I don’t care if others see that as wrong. He is a vile human who deserves nothing.
He deserves less than nothing.
The first thing he did after getting shot was blame democrats instead of stopping the nazi rhetoric
That’s despite them laughing and joking that palosis husband got attacked. They supported Trump and still get blamed. He has no honour whatsoever. He’s still a massive lier who has promised suffering to many who elect him and to impede justice
The only reason I wish it didn’t happen is because it puts other politicians at risk and further empowers right wing crazies
Honestly, he deserved it. He deserves jail (he raped multiple women). He defamed the women he raped. He cheated his way through life and brags about screwing over the trades he hires ruining their lives. He’s degrading the rights of everyone he isn’t and marked a return of racism and bigotry. He makes jokes about other people getting injured. He’s a bully and now since people don’t call him out until now, he’s successfully raised to the spot of president bully
He uses people, and abuses them and is following a mafia playbook.
The only surprise is that it took so long honestly… Everyone expected it eventually (especially after he promised to be a dictator and free criminals).
It’s not a surprise it was a registered republican who did the shooting either, because many of them have probably felt screwed over by him too and there are some decent people on that side too who are likely sick of the extremism
After getting shot AT* Theres no proof he was hit or even grazed by a round.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bullet-glass-trump-wound/
He actually did get grazed.
I would have called you crazy originally… But, the facts are that he isn’t releasing medical records and has only released info from someone who isn’t even a registered doctor anymore.
He stood up on stage and told everyone he was a quick healer, and his ear looked 100% ok.
But I agree. If it touched him at all (which is now questionable), it definitely wasn’t a “2cm wide wound”. And, it’s a nothing wound. Even in primary school he’d be given a bandaid and told to go back to class
It’s the closest thing to justice we are likely to ever get.
I wish it didn’t happen, but I would have much rather it have been an assassination instead of an attempt.
My current hope is that he lives long enough to see Harris win in a landslide. Then he can die.
2 Legit 2 Quit
Also:
Do people not say “legitimate” anymore?why would they, it’s two extra syllables that add nothing to the meaning.
why would they, it’s two extra sylls that add noth to the meang.
Nah. It’s not legit, so they quit.
I care about as much as he cares of all the people, especially kids, killed in mass shootings.
Could it be the geriatric orange infant has never considered his own mortality?
He has to go on stages and still doesn’t know why the protection detail was so lacking in … execution.
He has no reason to think they will be up to the challenge if another attempt is made.
I could see that messing up someone’s mind.
He got shot bc he couldn’t get indoor venues to rent to him due to his long history of not paying his bills. Karma finally almost came calling.
Outdoor venues cost money too. I think it’s because his supporters are more rural and more likely to attend a rally at a fairground than an auditorium in an urban setting
And now Karma Kamala is definitely going to the one who knocks.
Rule number one: don’t work with Trump.
Rule number two: get the money upfront.
This will change nothing. This is quite possibly the most narcissistic human in at least a century, the only thing PTSD would do is make his behavior worse and more erratic.
Yeah. He will just have to have the longest table. You know a table with two zip codes. After all putin is his role model. .
If he can’t sell it in cheap gold I don’t see how he can have ever considered anything
To be fair, who wouldn’t?
I think what makes it worse for Trump is that it was a registered Republican that was the shooter, aka, his own “side”.
He should leave the race and get therapy before he goes to prison, that is the best I can hope for him. Get out.
Not PTSD, a malignant narcissist obsessed with himself.
In his shoes, I’d be traumatized by the huge percentage of people that are disappointed by the poor aim. I’m one of those people. Only good Nazi is a dead one.
Just 4 more inches to the right and I could have told my uncle it’s fake and trump’s coming back with JFK at the plaza.
PTSD is serious and difficult to live with and I feel sorry for anyone who has it. Not really something to joke about.
I would be freaked out too if I almost got assassinated. He is a human being.
I don’t want him to be president. But that doesn’t change my basic humanity for the victim of a crime.
Nah, fuck him. I’m just worried it’ll make him more erratic.
Where is Trump’s basic humanity for all the people he’s hurt?
nah, no sympathy. most people with ptsd probably didn’t fuck around like there are no consequences for your actions. this fucker deserves every bad thing that is coming to him, including finding out that he is hated and people want him dead.
He is a human being.
I have real trouble with this. He seems to lack any kind of human qualities - no empathy, no wit or warmth.
If someone ripped his orange mask off, Scooby Doo style, and it revealed some kind of mindless racist/sexist slur and weak-insult spouting robot underneath, I think it would explain a lot.
We see his public facing persona. It says things that are more or less within the realm of normal for most of society.
I bet when he is with the wealthy follks the real Don comes out. Says things that rich and wealthy want to hear, akin to agenda 2025 but more focused on poors being confined while they still get to break laws.
I would be freaked out too if I almost got assassinated. He is a human being.
Donald Dump is an especially self absorbed human being so he almost surely freaked out even more than a normal person would.
The amount of trauma this man has created for others, it makes me want Hell to be real. I hope this incident completely unravels him.
Agreed with what you said, but nah, fuck him.
Are we absolutely sure about that human thing? Color me skeptical.
I have PTSD. I have zero sympathy for him. I hope he suffers even more than me.
Well, you can have PTSD and be a dick, both are possible.
I just don’t believe in well-wishing to actively malicious literal Nazi fucks. Guess that’s radical.
Don’t get me wrong, I think he should go straight to hell with his buddy Putin. I just think that wishing somebody PTSD is structurally similar to wishing somebody to experience sexual violence in prison, i.e. a vindictiveness that somehow belittles the struggles of PTSD.
What’s the difference between hell and PTSD on the malice scale?
Hell is not real and no innocent goes there. I guess if we knew for sure that it existed, and didn’t trust the administrators of hell to follow proper protocols, it would be similar? Like, you could say “don’t wish people hell, my aunt was innocently sent there and boiled for eternity!”. Though I’m willing to concede that hell, being an abstract concept beyond the arbitration of human morality, is a neat way to be malicious about bad people.
Buddy there is no hell. This man will get away with everything he’s done, and even if he’s put in a prison cell for the rest of his life, it will not be nearly long enough.
There is no magic justice that occurs after shitty people die. The rest of the world just has to live with the consequences of their awful actions.
Agreed.
Some people never get a chance to learn and grow into anything better. There are literal white supremacists who reformed and some fight for anti-racism now. People should be given a chance to become more than their bad decisions, if they show they’re actively trying to better themselves.
Hitler was the guy who eventually killed Hitler.
What about Jenkins?
People should be given a chance to become more than their bad decisions, if they show they’re actively trying to better themselves.
Cool. Is Trump doing that?
If not, I stand by my statement. I hope he suffers.
Fair enough
Thoughts and prayers
