Quote (TheWhiteTower @ Jul 13 2024 05:30pm)
looks like shot in ear? blood on face and ear
Nothing confirmed, just an initial pool report
All pool is told so far is gunshots/bangs were heard, secret service swarmed Trump and got him off stage and took him off the premises
Unconfirmed analysis
Trump appears to reach up to his ear before the first gunshot is heard on camera, the split second it takes for sound vs light in the triangular gunshot noise vs bullet vs reflected light. It appears the first shot hit Trump in the ear, and he reaches up to it immediately, before the secret service get him down. He then gets taken off stage but pumps his fist. Blood appears to be visible on his ear, and he is clearly alive enough in that moment to do a fist pump as he's taken off stage / doesn't fall like a bag of bricks so I think its very unlikely he got shot in the head. It doesn't rule out that he got shot elsewhere or took a slower, lethal wound to the head
This is definitely a second by second update, for all I know new details are out in the time it took to write this up