"There is some question about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear," FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.
@#17 ... Really easy solution to that. Just need those medical records! ...
Funny thing about that....
President Biden's Current Health Summary 2024
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Trump has given no official info about his medical care
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Trump doctor Harold Bornstein says bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files (2018)
www.nbcnews.com
... In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records.
The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a "raid," took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.
In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" when Keith Schiller and another "large man" came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump's bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.
"They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos," said Bornstein, who described the incident as frightening.
A framed 8-by-10 photo of Bornstein and Trump that had been hanging on the wall in the waiting room now lies flat under a stack of papers on the top shelf of Bornstein's bookshelf. Bornstein said the men asked him to take it off the wall.
Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president known as a HIPAA release " which is a violation of patient privacy law. A person familiar with the matter said there was a letter to Bornstein from then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but didn't know if there was a release form attached. ...
I found this:
11 Investigates has learned exclusively that two Pittsburgh police motorcycle officers who were injured during the shooting at former President Donald Trump's rally over the weekend have been removed from the cycle unit. Sources told 11 Investigates that the Pennsylvania State Police requested Pittsburgh motorcycle officers to assist with former President Trump's motorcade Saturday night from the airport in Allegheny County to Butler County and back again. Pittsburgh sent 10 officers. Four of them, as we exclusively reported Sunday afternoon, were hit by shrapnel when a gunman opened fire at the rally, killing one man, and wounding Trump and several others. The Pittsburgh motorcycle officers suffered only minor injuries and were treated at the scene.www.yahoo.com
One later went to the hospital.
@#45 ... I had assumed that in current day, the Secret Service would have digital radios that could be easily tuned to match Pennsylvania officers radios. ..
Digital radios = the ability to scramble.
Back three or four decades ago, I used to listen to local police and fire departments on my scanner (Icom IC-R7000) but of late, many (most? nearly all?) of those communications are digitally scrambled. That scanner, while an awesome receiver in its day, is all but useless now.
But to your point, the Secret Service should be able to monitor the digital encrypted comms of the local law enforcement because I would think that the decrypting codes would be told to the Secret Service.
Of course, I readily admit, that is a big assumption.
... E&M ...
Yeah, an Electromagnetic Fields and Forces course is not for everyone.
I mean, as you know, this is the starting point...
Maxwell's equations
en.wikipedia.org
... Maxwell's equations, or Maxwell"Heaviside equations, are a set of coupled partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, electric and magnetic circuits.
The equations provide a mathematical model for electric, optical, and radio technologies, such as power generation, electric motors, wireless communication, lenses, radar, etc. They describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated by charges, currents, and changes of the fields.[note 1]
The equations are named after the physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, who, in 1861 and 1862, published an early form of the equations that included the Lorentz force law. Maxwell first used the equations to propose that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon. The modern form of the equations in their most common formulation is credited to Oliver Heaviside.[1] ...
Snopes: Hit with a Bullet: Glass from Teleprompter Did Not Injure Trump
Skepticism over the notion that Trump had actually been hit by a bullet was fueled by anonymously sourced reports that he was "not struck by a bullet, but hit by glass fragments" from a teleprompter that had been hit by a bullet. Reporters from both Newsmax and Axios reported on a source making this claim, which was then amplified by other outlets including Raw Story. Some went so far as to call the purported disclosure evidence of a "stunt." The theory that glass from a teleprompter caused Trump's wound requires a broken teleprompter. There is no evidence to support the notion that either of the teleprompters at the rally was broken at any point during or after the attempted assassination.
"Snopes: Hit with a Bullet: Glass from Teleprompter Did Not Injure Trump"
For me it wasn't the teleprompter story that made me question if Trump had been hit by a bullet. It was this story from Pittsburgh's WPIX, which claimed police officers near Trump were hit by "flying debris" made of plastic or metal fragments:
UPDATE 4:50 p.m. Sundaywww.yahoo.com
11 Investigates has learned that four Pittsburgh police officers assigned to the former president's motorcade yesterday suffered minor injuries during the shooting.
The four motorcycle officers were part of Donald Trump's escort to and from the rally in Butler.
Sources tell Chief Investigator Rick Earle the officers were just feet away from Trump when shots rang out. The four officers suffered minor injuries from flying debris caused by the bullets.
Sources say the officers were hit with either plastic or metal fragments when the bullets struck objects nearby.
They were treated at the scene. They were okay to escort Trump back to the airport in Pittsburgh last night after he was treated at Butler Memorial Hospital.
Could the podium have been hit or the platform Trump was standing on? After one bullet flew passed Trump it was said to have struck the railing of a bleacher next to one of the bystanders who was injured, so the bullets could have potentially hit other things besides people or teleprompters.
One might want to consider that he was most likely hit by fragments of "something" and not the full bullet.
If that bullet actually came so close as to hit his ear, I really doubt he would have much of an ear left and more injuries. The reason being the ballistic pressure wave. Plenty of studies done on it. A bullet buzzing by like that can cause rapid incapacitation and brain damage. US Army has studied and tested it. Then again, one must have a brain to begin with...
F.B.I. Examining Bullet Fragments Found at Trump Rally Sitewww.nytimes.com
The F.B.I. is examining numerous metal fragments found near the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., to determine whether an assassin's bullet--or potential debris--grazed former President Donald J. Trump's head, bloodying his ear, according to the F.B.I. and a federal law enforcement official.. . .
It is not unusual for the type of bullet that Mr. Crooks fired from his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle to tumble end over end and break apart after hitting even a small solid object. Gun experts say a fragment might, for instance, have hit a metal stanchion.
Still, a bullet could have grazed Mr. Trump's ear, and the F.B.I. has not ruled that out. Investigators found eight rifle casings on the roof where the shooter was positioned.
It is not clear if investigators have eliminated other potential sources of debris. But bureau analysts appear to be focused on metal fragments, as opposed to glass from the teleprompters onstage. Photos of the teleprompters next to Mr. Trump show they were intact after the bullets were fired. . . .
Gun experts said the F.B.I. could rely on trajectory analysis, a physical examination of any linked bullet and the president's wound to possibly figure out what happened. A detailed analysis of bullet trajectories, footage, photos and audio by The New York Times strongly suggests Mr. Trump was grazed by the first of eight bullets fired by Mr. Crooks. . . .
One other scenario investigators are likely to explore: that the bullet, deadly but friable, might have fragmented after skimming Mr. Trump's ear.
"The problem you have with a bullet traveling at 3,200 feet per second is that it fragments very easily when it hits a surface before the target," Mr. Harrigan said. "It's going to be tough with the fragmentation to definitely say what happened. "
The head of the FBI seems to be alleging that their investigators have no had personal access to Trump - to visually assess his wound - nor to his detailed medical records - which would also assist in determining what precisely happened.
~ Tony
Did they need it?
www.nytimes.com
A 3,000 FPS bullet passing by an ear feels like a missed punch. And if #45 was struck by the high-velocity round, he certainly didn't react to the immense pain that would have caused. From the video, #45 seems to be reacting to a sharp pain on his ear as if a horsefly bit him. And the sound of the gunfire comes after the rounds have struck, because a bullet travels faster than the speed of sound (Mach 1).
#73 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS AT
Poor assumptions.
My guess is it nicked him, per the image above it had pretty much the same trajectory before and after it hit him. He was mere millimeters from it actually piecing his ear.
If it was a bullet fragment/s rather than a bullet, how/why did it become a fragment/s? Did the bullet just explode in midair without contacting anything? Is that something that can happen?
#72 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY
See the image, looks intact.
FORMER PREZ ALL EARS, NO BANDAGE... Seemingly No Injury
www.tmz.com
Interesting photo provided in the link.
Here ya go Corky. Our SWAT guys keep a box in the van They work great for sealing up bullet holes in a pinch. www.menstrupedia.com
Clownshack,
You absolutely suck at trolling. You are truly horrible at it. Dial it back, just a bit.
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