# Trump bloody after shots fired at a Trump Rally: Jul 13, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [July 13, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162 "2024-07-13T22:13:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/21 "2024-07-13T22:37:33Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > e, I am thinking inside job, especially if Trump’s wound turns out to be superficial. I’m not that cynical (yet). But this will help him, unfortunately. It sounded like a lot of shots, I’m surprised no one else was hit. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/22 "2024-07-13T22:38:43Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Same here, I am thinking inside job, especially if Trump’s wound turns out to be superficial. You’d really think someone could be good enough to shoot his ear and be confident it wouldn’t kill him? ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/23 "2024-07-13T22:38:52Z")
Quite possible the rest of the shots were the shooting being killed. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/24 "2024-07-13T22:40:06Z")
NBC announcer just said he heard 13 shots, after watching the replay. If so, hard to believe that nobody else was hit. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/25 "2024-07-13T22:40:35Z")
From ABC > **[Trump rushed off stage by Secret Service as bangs heard at Pennsylvania rally](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-rushed-off-stage-disturbance-pennsylvania-rally/story?id=111913361)** > > Former President Donald Trump was rushed off stage during a disturbance at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![nate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nate/32/13085_2.png) [@nate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nate)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/26 "2024-07-13T22:41:09Z")
1 cm difference and half his head would be gone. Absolutely crazy. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/27 "2024-07-13T22:42:03Z")
They were just reporting people entering these rallies are screened for firearms, so either someone snuck one in, or it was a sharpshooter from outside the venue. > [@Leaper](#): > > it was just a car backfiring They also speculated the bloody ear may have been from the Secret Service tackling him to the deck. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/28 "2024-07-13T22:42:21Z")
It looks to me like shots must have come from the grandstand behind him. His face was turned to his right, and his right ear was hit. Isn’t the grandstand behind him usually reserved for supporters? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/29 "2024-07-13T22:42:24Z")
I’ve heard time travel can leave a person disoriented, so that person from the future had trouble aiming. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/30 "2024-07-13T22:42:36Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > You’d really think someone could be good enough to shoot his ear and be confident it wouldn’t kill him? No but perhaps someone lit off a firecracker while Trump put a capsule full of “blood” up to his ear. I feel like if there was a sniper who really wanted to hurt him and managed to evade the Secret Service well enough to actually be able to take the shot, they sure as hell would not miss. I also can’t help but notice the Secret Service did not jump in front of the bullet, if that’s what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/31 "2024-07-13T22:42:36Z")
Those do not sound like gun shots. Sounds more like a nail gun or something with compressed air. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/32 "2024-07-13T22:42:37Z")
Except he grabbed his ear as the shots rang out. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/33 "2024-07-13T22:42:43Z")
Thoughts and prayers. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/34 "2024-07-13T22:42:53Z")
No, but I think there could be sounds played that appear to be shots and a fake blood packet in his hand to slap on himself as he falls. I’d already been thinking they might fake an attempt, since he keep talking about the threat he’s under and how narrowly he escapes death. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/35 "2024-07-13T22:43:04Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > They also speculated the bloody ear may have been from the Secret Service tackling him to the deck. He grabbed his ear before the Secret Service did anything. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/36 "2024-07-13T22:43:55Z")
Trump can’t stand the sight of blood. No way he’d willingly allow himself to be seen even with fake blood on him. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/37 "2024-07-13T22:44:21Z")
Ketchup though… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/38 "2024-07-13T22:44:36Z")
My thought also. > [@DWMarch](#): > > No but perhaps someone lit off a firecracker while Trump put a capsule full of “blood” up to his ear. Oh, that the shooting itself was fake. Well, I’m sure we’ll know soon. When Trump’s toadies try their shenanigans they aren’t very good at the coverup, hence all the charges being thrown around from before. I doubt it was fake though. Hard to fake something like this in public despite what Alex Jones would like you to believe. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/39 "2024-07-13T22:44:41Z")
Footage [https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1e2moov/footage\_from\_trump\_rally\_as\_suspected\_gun\_shots/](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1e2moov/footage_from_trump_rally_as_suspected_gun_shots/) ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-bloody-after-shots-fired-at-a-trump-rally-jul-13-2024/1004162/40 "2024-07-13T22:44:44Z")
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