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   A Breitbart News investigation of the home exercise accident   
   story told by Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and “sources familiar   
   with the incident” has uncovered facts which appear to discredit   
   his version of events surrounding a New Year’s Day incident that   
   left him with gruesome injuries to his eye, face and ribs.   
      
   On January 22, three weeks after the incident, Reid told   
   reporters on Capitol Hill this version of how he obtained those   
   injuries:   
      
   I know there are a lot of rumors as to what happened, but that’s   
   very simple. My wife and I were in our new home. I was doing   
   exercises that I’ve been doing for many years with those large   
   rubber bands and, uh, one of them broke and spun me around and I   
   crashed into these cabinets and injured my eye.   
      
   It didn’t knock me out but it sure hurt. And, uh, I was taken to   
   the hospital, and, uhm, we came back here after a couple of   
   days. I have some bones broken around my eye.   
      
   “Sources familiar with the incident said Reid was exercising in   
   his bathroom, with the exercise band attached to the shower   
   door,” Politico reported that same day.   
      
   Resistance bands, or “exercise bands” as “sources familiar with   
   the incident” described them to Politico, or “rubber bands” as   
   Reid referred to them, are inexpensive exercise devices that   
   consist of a length of cord made of stretchable material,   
   usually some form of rubber or latex, that sell for between $10   
   and $40.   
      
   >From the moment the story broke, many have been highly skeptical   
   of Reid’s claim his injuries came from a home exercise accident.   
   Most of this skepticism–based mostly on speculation and the   
   gruesome nature of the injuries—led some to offer a version of   
   an alternate theory that somebody beat up Senator Reid.   
      
   “It’s pretty obvious from the photographs that somebody beat the   
   bejesus out of the soon-to-be former senator from Nevada. And   
   yet the national media has uncritically swallowed the cover   
   story that ‘exercise equipment’ was to blame for the loss of   
   sight in the former majority leader’s right eye. Baloney,”   
   Michael Walsh wrote at PJ Media.   
      
   On Friday, Rush Limbaugh expressed his own skepticism about   
   Reid’s accident story:   
      
   By the way, does anybody believe that Harry Reid really had an   
   accident with his exercise machine?   
      
   Does anybody really believe that’s why Harry Reid is still   
   bruised and is still wearing dark glasses, what, months after   
   this accident with his exercise machine?   
      
   I don’t believe for a minute that whatever happened to Harry   
   Reid has anything to do with an exercise machine unless somebody   
   repeatedly threw him intoit. Harry Reid looks like and is acting   
   like — and now with this announcement, behaving like — somebody   
   who may have been beaten up. Nobody… I’ve never seen anybody   
   have an accident with an exercise machine that ends up suffering   
   symptoms much like Harry Reid’s for as long as Harry Reid has.   
      
   A Breitbart News investigation of Reid’s home exercise accident   
   has uncovered facts that appear to discredit Reid’s version of   
   the home exercise accident for three very specific reasons:   
      
   1. The shower door in his master bathroom, as well as two of the   
   other three sides of the shower itself, consists of a glass   
   panel that extends from floor to ceiling and is not sturdy   
   enough to be used as the anchor for an exercise band.   
      
   2. The distance from the shower door to the cabinets in the   
   bathroom is at best a mere 3 feet, an insufficient width to   
   conduct the type of resistance band exercises Reid says he was   
   performing when one of the bands broke and he hit his head on   
   the cabinet.   
      
   3. Even if Reid had attempted to conduct his exercises in this   
   very narrow 3 feet passage, the force of the exercise would not   
   have been sufficient to “spin him around” and crash him into the   
   cabinets of the master bathroom, as he claims.   
      
   According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Reid and his wife   
   moved into their newly purchased “Cantata Model” home in the   
   Anthem Country Club gated community of Henderson, Nevada, in the   
   summer of 2014.   
      
   Breitbart News has confirmed through publicly available   
   documents at the Clark County Assessor’s Office and publicly   
   available documents from the real estate agent who handled the   
   transaction that Senator Reid and his wife purchased a 3,571   
   square foot house built on the Cantata model floor plan in the   
   Anthem Country Club gated community in Henderson, Nevada for   
   $769,000 on July 11, 2014.   
      
   Breitbart News has obtained a copyrighted digital image of the   
   Cantata model floor plan of the sort used to construct the house   
   Senator Reid and his wife purchased in July, as well as   
   copyrighted photographs taken of the house’s interior and   
   exterior that were used as part of the sales promotion for that   
   residence. Breitbart News has requested permission from the   
   Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors (GLVAR), which has   
   copyrighted the images, to display them in this story, but has   
   not yet received a response. Given the importance of this story,   
   Breitbart News has included these images in this article, as a   
   matter of public interest.   
      
   (Readers can perform their own searches and obtain video tours   
   of Anthem Country Club houses currently for sale, several of   
   which are built on the Cantata model floor plan, here.)   
      
   The images show that the claim that “Reid was exercising in his   
   bathroom, with the exercise band attached to the shower door,”   
   is not credible, for these three very specific reasons.   
      
   First, the shower in Senator Reid’s master bathroom is enclosed   
   by the wall to which the shower head is attached, and three   
   clear glass panels that stretch from floor to ceiling, one on   
   the left, one in front, and one on the right, where the door of   
   the shower is located.   
      
   These glass panels, while apparently sturdy enough to keep water   
   on the inside of the shower, do not appear sturdy enough to   
   support the weight of an exercise band attached to the shower   
   door.   
      
   Indeed, a resistance band attached to Senator Reid’s glass   
   shower door would appear to run the risk of shattering the glass   
   door if the sort of pressure typically applied in any of a   
   number of exercise band routines were applied.   
      
   “The door anchor has to be attached on the hinge side of the   
   door. Harry Reid’s shower door is not an actual door, it’s   
   merely a structure of glass. There couldn’t be a riskier place   
   to attach it. Industry standards advocate using a solid triple   
   hinged door with a locking mechanism,” Darrin Crowder, who has   
   trained with resistance bands for years and is featured in The   
   Art of Manliness online magazine YouTube video on resistance   
   band training, tells Breitbart News.   
      
   “I have a glass enclosed shower in my house, and I would rip the   
   whole thing down if I used it to anchor my resistance band. The   
   entire structure would probably collapse if I were to torque on   
      
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