trump has the thickest skull the very best they say they tell me they say donald your skull, and these are world class doctors the very best they say donald your skull its so thick you have the thickest skull it could stop a bullet and it could believe me it could thats what they tell me i dont know if thats true but hey

Is it possible that it could be a direct hit on the side of his head with something like a paintball gun or something stronger than that but not quite enough to do fatal damage? I have no experience with guns of any kind, genuinely wondering.

Blading. Trump could've easily razored his own ear open like wrestlers do.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all, not one little bit, that when they “find” the shooter…gasp…they’ll be a self proclaimed massive liberal.

Well again this is kind of jumping to conclusions. There's really no need to speculate preemptively on such events the very minute they are covered in the news. I feel like it's more responsible in general to wait and see more details and facts as the situation is investigated.

The shooter is dead, according to reports, along with one spectator, and others wounded, some critically. The bullet clipped Trump's ear, he claims. There was blood on his ear apparently. If those things are all true it's hard to see it as a deliberate near miss. It looks very much like someone tried to kill him.

Sky has reported it was a registered Republican who took the shots:

https://news.sky.com/story/shots-fired-at-donald-trump-rally-as-former-president-rushed-off-stage-13177651

"The FBI has named the attack [sic] - shot dead by security forces - as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who according to state records was a registered Republican."

Stooping to their low levels is not helping, rather it just creates a circle of going even lower. Take the moral high ground instead and be the better person.