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Doctor Questions the Very ‘Bizarre’ Nature of Injuries Sustained by Trump in Pennsylvania Shooting

Let's face it: There's a lot here that doesn't add up.

Adding a whole new twist to the myriad theories as to why and how Donald Trump was fired on by Republican voter Thomas Crooks last Saturday, a doctor is now weighing in on what is and is not being reported.

The world saw Trump appear on stage for the first time since the shooting at his Pennsylvania rally with a bandage on his right ear. That’s to be expected; no matter how serious (or unserious) the wound he sustained appears to be, he’s sure to try and milk it for all it’s worth.

Some of his cult members even showed up sporting bandages of their own, in “solidarity” with the former president.

And while there has been some speculation about the event, we haven’t really seen a medical analyst give their take on it. That’s where Dr. Jonathan Reiner came in on Thursday, with a tweet on X that cast a new shadow on the discussion:

“It’s an understatement to say that it’s bizarre that a presidential candidate has sustained an injury from an attempted assassination and no medical report is issued to describe his evaluation and the extent of his injury.”

Reiner is a professor of Medicine and Surgery at George Washington University, and just the kind of medical analyst who’s qualified to make such an assertion.

Journalist Brian Beutler, retweeting the good doctor, offered his own take on it as well:

“If the medical evaluation matched Trump’s description, he would have OK’d its release. He wants the cred of having been shot; being shot *at* and lightly injured incidentally isn’t good enough for him. So as always he chose a lie and a coverup.”

Now, it could be that everything is exactly as Trump described. But the fact is, we know this man by now. If he had a real injury, he’d have been showing it off like Pentagon battle plans to his buddies at Bedminster in a heartbeat.

We still don’t know, in fact, whether he was actually grazed by a bullet or simply hit by a shard of glass from a shattered teleprompter, a theory that former RNC chair Michael Steele wasn’t too shy to voice:

“Outside of Trump telling us he’s ‘fine,’ how severe was the wound? Did he loose part of his ear (bullets do terrible things to flesh)? How long for recovery? Will the wound require cosmetic surgery? What about reports that it may not have been a bullet which wounded him but glass from the shattered teleprompter?”

We’ll see when the band-aid comes off.

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