Sorry, Director Wray, your whacked-out conspiracy theory just doesn't jibe with the contemporaneous evidence!
Posted on 07/24/2024 6:37:40 PM PDT by Libloather
The FBI's director has cast doubt on whether Donald Trump was struck by a bullet during the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania political rally.
Christopher Wray was updating Congress on the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler on Wednesday when he made the explosive statement.
'There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,' Wray said.
Wray was addressing security failures that allowed gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks to open fire. Crooks, 20, killed firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, and injured two others including Trump during the shooting.
The presidential hopeful has since given extensive accounts of the moment he was shot and was seen sporting a bandage over his ear.
'When I went down, bullets were coming over my head and you hear them, it's like a zip, zip,' he said.
The former president claims his Secret Service detail 'thought it was over when I went down' because of 'a lot of blood coming' after his ear was grazed.
Trump, 78, argued with his agents, telling them how he was 'not going on a stretcher' and instead vowed to 'get up'.
He added that a last minute turn of the head to glance at a screen is what saved him from the bullet.
'I'm supposed to be dead. The most incredible thing was that I happened to not only turn, but to turn at the exact right time and in just the right amount,' he added, saying he survived 'by luck or by God'.
Some initial reports on the day of the shooting speculated that Trump may have been struck by a shattered piece of glass when a bullet struck the teleprompter.
The teleprompter theory, however, was debunked when photos showed that both glass screens were in tact after the attack.
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Proper headline would have read
Asshole Speaks
Teleprompter screens intact after the shooting. Once again wray proves he is an idiot or a liar. It can only be one or the other.
Wray lies his ass off. He lied about the extent of an FBI undercover operation investigating TLM Catholics. It was not “one field office”. It was nationwide at every field office.
I pray we see a lot less, like none, of them in the future.
Don’t worry...Wray’s FBI will get to the bottom of it in their investigation. (yes, I’m joking).
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What a petty little man.
‘With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,’ Wray said.
If it was a bullet, then all the stories about how Trump was almost killed but turned his head in time to avoid a bullet in the brain generate enormous sympathy for a man almost killed.
If it was shrapnel, then there is a much lower probability that he was actually in danger of death and, therefore, not deserving of great sympathy because he just got knicked by flying debris.
In one case, he’s in the history books for an assassination attempt that hit him.
In the second case, you could argue that the shooter was aiming at a mass killing and Trump was just an accidental casualty and a footnote in history rather than a main entry.
And even if it were shrapnel, what would have happened if it struck his head?
I thought it was a flare gun but whatever he’s an imbecile
Alex jones denied a shooting and look what this got him.
Sorry, Director Wray, your whacked-out conspiracy theory just doesn't jibe with the contemporaneous evidence!
It wouldn’t have mattered if PDJT hadn’t been hit by anything. An assassin was shooting at his head. Is it only an assassination attempt if there’s blood?
SHrapnel from what, a flying dweevilferdy?
The FBI has very substadard inflormation if this is whatt hey are saying. Wray does not know much about what happened.
Neither teleprompter glass was struck.They both were intact.
Bkmk
So many pathetic government employees need waterboarded,,,so many.
Maybe Lincoln was hit by a fragment that bounced back when Booth's bullet hit the guard rail of the Presidents Box at Ford's Theater.
Will Trump get a tat to go with his piercing?
Great that Wray is investigating this. He will likely conclude that no gun was fired.
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