We’ve gotten used to leftists acting wacky, but sometimes even they can surprise you with the sheer idiocy that comes out of their mouths. The latest theory being promoted by far-left crazies like former “The View” host Rosie O’Donnell: it wasn’t a bullet that hit Donald Trump’s ear during the July 13 assassination attempt. (Then what was it, Rosie?) Meanwhile, other social media users are saying he faked the whole thing and hid a packet of fake blood in his hat.
Seriously.
Did the former president fake this?
A remarkable photo captured by my former White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills.
Zoom in right above President Trump’s shoulder and you’ll see a bullet flying in the air to the right of President Trump’s head following an attempted assassination. pic.twitter.com/FqmLBCytoW
— Haraz N. Ghanbari (@HarazGhanbari) July 14, 2024
O’Donnell wasn’t one of those who flat-out called the attempt “fake”—we’ll get to those folks in a bit—but the former comedienne who belongs in a padded room alongside Keith Olbermann doesn’t believe a bullet hit Trump’s ear. Because she’s some sort of ballistics expert or something:
TDS patient Rosie O’Donnell is spreading the conspiracy that Trump wasn’t hit by a bullet pic.twitter.com/4990X8ROeC
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 27, 2024
Now I don’t know what happened that day, but I don’t think it was a bullet that hit him. I don’t.
I think it was maybe a fragment of something or… but I don’t know. Without a scar to be seen, yet blood all over it. Look at the photos of him right after with his fist pumping. A normal reaction, right, to almost being assassinated.
How does she know what the normal reaction is to almost being assassinated? Does she have some personal knowledge or experience with this that I wasn’t aware of? Actually, perhaps a better question is: is there a normal reaction to almost being shot in the head by a sniper’s round? I would think not. But she wasn’t done:
And there’s something really hanky about the whole thing. And I don’t know what it is, but I am saying this: for people who go on conspiracy theories for endless, endless cycles, you know, deep dives—how come this isn’t getting a deep dive? How come people are just like, look his ear is normal now? Yeah!
But he’s not an octopus. He doesn’t regrow his limbs, his ears, his nose or whatever. You don’t regrow; we’re humans. You don’t regrow your arms or your ears.
This is straight out of the funny farm. A popular X account had an answer:
Hey @rosie, have you considered that President Trump had surgery to repair his ear? pic.twitter.com/yc5zQFVvwF
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 27, 2024
Rosie’s not the only one spouting nonsense. Where are the disinformation police?
Sen. Kennedy Hilariously Destroys FBI Over Whether Trump Was Shot: ‘It Wasn’t a Murder Hornet?’
Adam Kinzinger Jumps Into Latest Leftist Conspiracy Theory About Trump Assassination Attempt
Trump Unloads on Chris Wray After FBI Boss Bizarrely Questions Whether He Was Actually Shot
There’s plenty more of this silliness on the interwebs as folks are coming up with all sorts of “ideas.”
Others have focused on Trump’s hat, claiming it was there that he stored a fake blood packet — and zeroed in on a suited agent who collected the hat after Trump was whisked away by the Secret Service.
Photos of Trump’s ear since the bandages have been removed also play a central role in the conspiracy theories — and are frequently paired alongside images of grisly ear wounds as supposed evidence that he wasn’t really shot.
“What kind of assassination of an ex president allows you to straighten out your wig, scream for your shoe lifts and stand long enough for photos. Fake fake fake; not fight fight fight,” one X poster — who describes themselves as “woke **” — wrote on Sunday.
It was THE HAT!
And the plot thickens. THE HAT! It was so important for Trumps hat to go with them. At the start, someone is holding the hat. At :05, the hat is dropped. At 31, an agent walks across and picks up the hat.#StagedAssassinationAttempt #StagedAssassination #StagedAF pic.twitter.com/M05xVSbYUp
— Teela65 (@DD_Edibles) August 21, 2024
There are conspiracy theorists on both sides of the political aisle, and sometimes they turn out to be right—Mark Zuckerberg just admitted that the government forced Big Tech companies like Facebook to censor anyone’s opinion they didn’t like during the pandemic, just like we thought—but these particular Trump theories just seem to be 100 percent bat guano.
The only nice thing I can think of to say about O’Donnell is that she’s “special.”
