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Every now and then, something crazy happens in the political arena that absolutely defies belief… yet nobody seems to care all that much, which seems even more baffling.
Like on Wednesday, when the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified under oath that, more than 10 days after an apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the former president of the United States of America, occurred on live TV, he was still not sure what caused Trump’s ear to bleed.
Let’s break down that sentence as though we were all a bunch of middle schoolers.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, also called the FBI or “the Bureau,” is the premier law enforcement agency of the aforementioned United States of America, which is the richest and most powerful country in the history of humanity.
The FBI has a budget of $11 billion. That looks like this: $11,000,000,000.
The Bureau employs 35,000 people.
After a shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13, the FBI was one of the agencies tasked with investigating what happened. It is uniquely positioned to do so. After all, the word “Investigation” is right there in its name. That means that every law enforcement tool is at the Bureau’s disposal.
July 13 was 11 days ago, which means that investigators have had 250 hours to figure out what happened.
And yet, FBI Director Christopher Wray — that’s the name of the guy who oversees those 35,000 employees and the $11,000,000,000 budget — testified under oath on Wednesday that he still doesn’t know what caused Trump’s ear to bleed.
By the way, “under oath” means that Wray had to say the truth.
“There is some question about whether or not it [was] a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” he testified today.
How can there be a question???
After all, Trump and his people say that he was hit by a bullet.
Granted, the former president doesn’t have a track record of speaking the truth, but he was clearly bleeding. Everybody could see that. And then he was running around with a gigantic bandage over the next few days.
It seems as though it would be the easiest thing in the world to produce a medical record detailing his injuries and which treatment he has received.
That would also make political sense. What a great story! The man got shot, gets up, raises his fist, and urges his supporters to fight. That’s the stuff of legend.
In addition, Trump has been telling people that he escaped death by a matter of a few millimeters (that means less than an inch).
And that may very well be what happened.
Again, we saw him reach for his ear as gunshots could be heard, and he then got up and there was blood on his face, so something obviously hit him.
It’s just weird that he refuses to offer any additional proof of what exactly happened. We only know what we saw, and what we have been told by Trump and his people, like his former doctor, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who also isn’t a beacon of virtue and honesty.
And the former president clearly wants the American people to know what happened because he told them his version of events.
On Wednesday, he also “retruthed” a video made by some dude who believes Trump’s reaction clearly shows he is not in cognitive decline, and whose only credential seems to be that he has a foreign accent.
So, if that story checks out, it is clearly in Trump’s interest to release an official document.
Still, let’s assume that, for some weird reason, the former president does not want the public to read the official report of him taking a bullet to the ear.
But wouldn’t he want the FBI to have that information? That way, the Bureau can do a better job of investigating the shooting.
However, according to Wray, it sounds as though Trump and his people are stonewalling the FBI by not releasing information that, if it backs up their version of events, would benefit the former president.
And that just doesn’t make any sense at all.
