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Rob Reiner publicly condemned political violence and, after the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, expressed “absolute horror” and called for condemnation of politically motiva...
A viral claim that Rob Reiner said he “wished” the would‑be assassin who shot at Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, “hadn’t missed” is unsupported by reporting and has been debunked by fact‑checker...
Rob Reiner’s publicly recorded remarks concern the September shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk: he described the killing as “absolute horror,” condemned political violence regardless of i...
Multiple contemporaneous news reports, official descriptions from the Trump campaign and later investigations all state that a bullet grazed or nicked Donald Trump’s right/upper right ear during a Jul...
The short answer: there are visible signs that Donald Trump was wounded at the July 13, 2024 rally and later showed a healed scar behind his right ear, but conflicting images and misinformation have l...
Donald Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet during the July 2024 assassination attempt at a campaign rally; multiple contemporaneous investigations and later agency statements corroborate that a pr...
A viral theory that the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania shooting of Donald Trump was staged rests on anecdote and misread imagery, and ; independent reporting and official probes document a real sh...
The available official investigations and contemporaneous reporting conclude the July 13, 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania shooting was not a staged event: the FBI and Secret Service investigations, a bipart...
Available reporting shows no source saying Rob Reiner ever said he “wished the shooter did not miss Trump in Butler, PA.” Coverage instead centers on President Trump’s inflammatory post after Reiner’s...
You asked for the exact words Rob Reiner used about “the assassination attempt in Butler.” Available news reports about the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner and the related political fallout do not re...
Rob Reiner did not publicly say he “wished the Butler, Pennsylvania, would‑be assassin hadn’t missed” or that it was “too bad he turned his head,” despite viral social posts asserting those quotations...
Photographs and videos showing Donald Trump with a bloodied or bandaged right ear were published immediately after the July 13, 2024 shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania; his campaign later rel...
Rob Reiner did not issue any verifiable public statement endorsing or celebrating the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump; multiple fact‑checks found no evidence he said things attributed ...
No credible reporting or fact‑checks show Rob Reiner ever said he wished the would‑be assassin “hadn’t missed” when an attacker fired at Donald Trump in Butler in 2024; a Lead Stories‑sourced fact che...
Rob Reiner did not tell reporters that he wished the 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, would‑be assassin “hadn't missed”; multiple fact‑checks found no evidence he ever made that statement and a family sourc...
Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 and was struck by gunfire — grazed in the ear — but survived; federal authorities i...
Fact‑checkers including Snopes and Lead Stories found no verifiable evidence that Rob Reiner ever said he “wished” the would‑be Trump assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania, “hadn’t missed,” and they pointe...
Rob Reiner did not, based on available reporting, make any verified public statement endorsing or celebrating the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump; fact‑checks report no evidence he sai...
The available investigative reporting and official accounts conclude that multiple rounds were fired at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally and that at least one bullet grazed former President Trump’s ear;...
Rob Reiner did not, on the available record, say he “wished the assassin was a better shot”; the claim circulated online is unfounded and was debunked by Snopes after checking available footage and st...