I thought by “faked” people usually meant “the guy never meant to actually hit him,” not “he didn’t shoot a real bullet,”

A shot at 300' by an amateur hobbyist is crazy to make on a good day. I'm partial to the theory he missed Trump entirely and they just whipped up the "grazed in the ear" thing in the moment. I'm partial to the theory that someone in the SS detail just let this guy through in the hopes he'd solve everyone's problems. But the idea that he deliberately grazed Trump? That's insane. An impossible shot to make on purpose.

Like I thought that the idea for this theory was the bullet was supposed to just hit the teleprompter so he could be like “There was an attempt on my life,” and either it or a piece of glass from the prompter grazed his ear.

I mean, we get all the info on these people third and fourth hand. But I tend to trust the journalism TrueAnon puts out and the background they ran on Thomas Matthew Crooks indicates he was absolutely some dipshit future high school shooter who ended up at a Trump rally rather than a graduation day ceremony.

There’s a punnet square of options with fake shooter and fake blood and whose blood. I’ve always found the idea that trump was struck by the skull fragments of the actual victim firefighter, and it was this man’s blood dripping down his face, to be the funniest option

I'm with you there, real bullet, except the teleprompter was a lucky hit or perhaps rigged to shatter. Only meant to create a scene and never to hit Trump. His hand went immediately to his ear, likely with a pin, piece of glass or a ketchup packet from McDs to make it look genuine.

Shooter was likely a trumpet promised millions for his guilt if he ended up hitting anyone in the crowd, or perhaps found on the dark side of the Internet and blackmailed into doing it to avoid prison for whatever he got caught doing. Either way, he was gunned down before he could be arrested and pardoned/paid out (or talk).