I'm sure at this point if it is deformed it's a struggle between his grift and his vanity.

But we should remember, it's traumatic to be shot at, even if you aren't physically harmed. Hundreds of American children can tell you that.

We need to focus less on his ear and more on what comes out of his mouth, or rather as Pete Buttigieg said, what he's actually done. Which campaign promises did he abandon and which did he push through? Taking away women's rights over their own bodies, that was his doing. Cutting taxes only for the already wealthy, leaving everyone else with burdensome debt? Yeah that was him too, and he's proud of it. Taking and selling secrets ? Yes. Marketing White House access to foreign criminals and grifting off the Secret Service in his properties? That too.