“With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” said FBI boss Christopher Wray in a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing. That came in response to a question from Rep. James Jordan, who wanted to know, “where did all eight bullets go?” According to the New York Times, the FBI is trying to determine “whether an assassin’s bullet — or potential debris — grazed former President Donald J. Trump’s head, bloodying his ear.” No word whether any shrapnel was involved in the death of Corey Comperatore, or “potential debris” in the wounds to David Dutch and James Copenhaver.
Wray calls to mind the 1988 film Without a Clue, in which a drunken Sherlock Holmes (Michael Caine) says a victim was killed with a “blunt excrement.” The media coverage recalls Chubby Checker’s query, “how low can you go?”
The FBI investigation and “independent” review under Janet Napolitano both come across as coverups. The House task force will doubtless be stonewalled from the start, but we’ll have to see what happens. As Kierkegaard might say, assassination attempts happen forward but are understood backward. That’s another way of saying, in the style of Milan Kundera, that it’s all about memory against forgetting.
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