Jeff Tiedrich - ear-gate: why is the press giving Donald Trump yet another free pass?
on March 30, 1981, some delusional fuckface named John Hinckley Jr. decided that the best way to impress the shit out of his imaginary girlfriend Jodie Foster was to pump a few bullets into then-President Ronald Reagan.
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if youve been kicking around this planet long enough to remember Reagans near-assassination, youll also remember the total media frenzy that surrounded it. reporters were camped out in front of the hospital. doctors and hospital staff gave numerous live press conferences and issued frequently-updated medical reports. when Reagan waved from his hospital window, the press spontaneously orgasmed,
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on July 13, 2024, some dweeby dipshit incel named Thomas Matthew Crooks fired an unknown number of bullets in the general direction of Donny Convict. one of the bullets is alleged to have grazed the tippy tip of Donnys ear.
thats all we know about what happened. no medical report, no press conferences. no official statements just an unconfirmed rumor that Donny spent the weekend playing golf at his New Jersey ex-wife cemetery, and then on Monday he showed up at the RNC with a clownishly-oversized maxi-pad on his ear.
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/ear-gate-why-is-the-press-giving
Arne
(3,608 posts)with shitheads DNA on it.
KatyaR
(3,536 posts)Reporters, DO YOUR JOB!!!
allegorical oracle
(3,404 posts)orthoclad
(4,728 posts)would have detailed police reports on the nature of the injury.
But as JT says, Donald is a Very Special Boy.