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This isn't a dismissal of your point. But a bullet that comes that close to an ear will likely damage the inner ear from the shockwave of the bullet traveling faster than sound. If it's close enough to just graze the soft tissue, it's enough to rupture the inner ear. Hell, a . 50 round as big and fast as it is can tear skin tissue without even touching you.
Yes, Ive been shot at before. If it's close enough, you can feel it. The ear, and to a lesser extent, the eye are the only areas I'd consider to be at risk from a near miss. But obviously the blood isn't coming from his inner ear, it's like it's almost coming from the back of the ear at the 10 o'clock position if viewed straight on.
Again, I'm not dismissing your points, just giving additional info to one of them. And I am definitely not a crime scene investigator or anything. Personally, I don't really know or care, what ifs aren't something to be worried about at the moment. We need to fix our now and future, not fawn over what could have been.
Yes, you are correct that bullets displace the air they travel through, doing a kind of... hydrostatic shock as seen in ballistics gel, but to the air itself.
When a bullet isn't subsonic (is supersonic), that's generally fast enough that it creates an audible snap or crack from the air pressure gradient shifting so quickly, basically a micro sonic boom... and with particularly large/fast bullets, that effect on its own can damage soft tissue, and as you say, be loud enough to cause hearing damage (over pressure).
It is possible the bullet did not actually itself physically touch Trump's ear, and that this micro shockwave of air displacement, from the bullet just barely missing his ear by... maybe up to a few centimeters for a 5.56 bullet?... is actually what caused the capillaries in his outer ear to rupture.
The math on that is a bit more complicated to solidly verify the plausibility of that idea, but, yes, I agree that what you are saying is generally plausible, based in reality and not wildly speculative.
I entirely concur.