tldr, not sure if it was bullet or shrapnel from the bullet.
Or more precisely since that sounds like “part of bullet that shattered”, shrapnel in this case most likely being glass from a broken teleprompter.
A broken teleprompter? A teleprompter?! You mean the thing Biden used because he was too old to remember things?!
Yes the one that everybody uses in public speaking!
But I thought teleprompters were bad.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-accuses-joe-biden-teleprompter-so-sad-1627798
When they shatter, yes.
That was not the opinion Trump has given about them.
On Biden, from the article above:
“When you ask a question and then you see him read the answer off the teleprompter. That means he knows what’s going on. He’ll call—let’s see, they told me to ask so-and-so, to ask a question. It’s so sad for our country,” Trump said.
On Hillary Clinton:
“I don’t use teleprompters,” he said in January, criticizing Hillary Clinton for using one. “Wouldn’t that be easy, teleprompters? I watched Hillary the other day and she has the biggest teleprompters I’ve ever seen. In fact, if you’re sitting on that side of the room or that side of the room you can’t see her because when they are outside, they are painted black and you can’t even see her.”
https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/21/politics/trump-teleprompter-aipac-speech/index.html
On Obama:
You shouldn’t be allowed because you don’t know what you’re going to get. Look what happened with Obama who is a teleprompter guy. No, it’s true… […] You don’t want a scripted president.
On running for president in general:
“I’ve always said, if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters,” Donald Trump said to applause at a rally last October in Georgia. “Because you don’t even know if the guy’s smart.”
https://www.presenting-yourself.com/teleprompters-can-be-a-speakers-best-friend/
Which he has said more than once:
“These other guys, they’re going around, they make a speech in front of 21 people. Nobody cares, they read the same speech…They have teleprompters,” Trump said at a campaign rally in August 2015. “I say we should outlaw teleprompters … for anybody running for president.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-trump-teleprompter-224039
In fact, he said it at least three times:
“I say we should outlaw teleprompters for anybody, right? For anybody running for president. Do you know how easy that would be? Instead of this. I’m working my a-- off, OK?” he said at an Aug. 25 Iowa speech.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-begrudging-teleprompters/story?id=39696587
TIL, that’s very ironic, I guess we may have been at the presence of a teleprompter revenge.
It doesn’t really matter. Someone shot at him four to five times with an assault rifle and came pretty close. I couldn’t care less about what grazed his ear.
The truth always matters.
is the photo not legit?
*ytf is everybody so bent about a photo from The New York Times
There’s no doubt the bullet went near his head, the question is if the bullet itself caused the injury or other shrapnel kicked up along the way.
in the video, it’s the frames after this one when he grabs his ear. I had assumed this was settled
I mean, it would be settled if he turned over any medical reports.
My guy, the world is 3 dimensions, just because we see the bullet in that pic doesn’t mean we know how close they were flying.
Don’t get me wrong, the bullets were close, but it’s way more likely to get hit from shrapnel than being graded by a bullet just enough to bleed.
That wasn’t a bullet. That was just the braincell he’s been hoarding from the tabbies
I’ve always had doubts about that being the bullet. Obviously I’m not an expert, I’m just a guy on the internet so don’t take this as anything substantial as this is 100% armchair speculation and I’m fully willing to concede any part of this; but given what I know about the speed of a round fired from an AR-15 and how camera shutter speeds work, I’d assume that if a photographer was lucky enough with their timing like this, that the streak would be significantly longer. These rounds can go upwards of 3000 feet per second, so for the streak to be that small, you’d need an really fast shutter speed. But I don’t think this was a particularly fast shutter at all, because there’s significant motion blur elsewhere in the photo. The streak also seems to be slightly more in-focus than Trump does, but it’s also possible that the photographer had the wrong focal length in the first place.
I dunno, I could be wrong and that could be the most legit photo in the world. It just feels very unlikely to me. It just seemed waaaay too convenient, on top of a rather long list of other individual conveniences that happened that day. I try not to think too much about it, because it’s very easy to get conspiratorial about it.
High light condition with short depth of field means a large aperture and fast shutter speed was used. The fast shutter speed was used to avoid motion blur. However, the focal point is in front of the podium, the whole picture out of focus.
A modern professional camera can use shutter speeds as fast as 1/8000th to 1/32000th of a second. The AR-15 has a muzzle velocity of 3000-3300fps. The length of the visible trail is heavily dependant upon relative humidity.
If you want something fucked, it’s that the focal point is in front of the podium. The camera almost always does that, not the photographer. AutoFocus is a touch or half push on the button that takes the photo on a full push. Some security agency probably modified the photo to prevent internet sleuthing and ensure they’d control of the narrative.
Note that this is only application of basics. It’s not a nuanced or expert perspective.
thank you for giving me an actual answer
I could be wrong and that could be the most legit photo in the world. It just feels very unlikely to me.
Papers in my country reported that a sports photographer said about the photo : “Chance of 1 in a million. Almost impossible”. Other articles mentioned the possibility of a small animal flying instead of a bullet.
