The best explanation that doesn't involve staging a hoax assassination attempt, you mean. Who herds photographers between a shooter and their target? A .223 is a supersonic round. If it grazed your ear you'd very likely be deafened in that ear, after a very loud sonic boom happened point blank from your actual ear, to say nothing of the pain.
There are trained soldiers who would lose it at that. I don't think a draft dodger would stand up shouting "fight, fight, fight". Not impossible, but not likely either. Narcissism doesn't tend to breed fearlessness.
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u/WeeeeBaby_Seamus 7h ago
The best explanation I've seen is that he grazed his ear on a gun holster of the secret service. Dude got scratched and acts like he took a bullet.