FBI confirms: Trump was hit by a bullet in the ear

Was Trump actually hit by a bullet? At first, the FBI director was not clear about the matter. But then his agency clarified the matter.

The US domestic intelligence agency FBI confirmed that former US President Donald Trump was hit by a bullet during the attempted assassination two weeks ago. “What hit former President Trump in the ear was a whole bullet or a bullet that had been broken up into smaller pieces, fired from the gunman’s rifle,” the FBI said on Friday (local time). Previously, there had been various speculations about the nature of Trump’s ear injury.

Trump responded on his online network Truth Social by saying: “I suspect that’s the best apology we’re going to get from (FBI) Director (Christopher) Wray.” But he accepted it completely.

Initially, FBI Director Wray did not clearly state on Wednesday whether Donald Trump was actually hit by a bullet in the Butler assassination attempt. “With regard to former President Trump, there is some doubt as to whether it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Wray told the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in a hearing.

Earlier, committee chairman Jim Jordan asked whether the FBI had taken all the bullets fired into account. Wray said it was possible that a bullet would have landed somewhere else after grazing. But he believes his agency took all the shots into account.

Immediately after the attack, Trump posted on his social network Truth Social: “I was hit by a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.” He said he heard a hissing sound and immediately felt the bullet pierce his skin.

According to the news portal Axios, Trump’s doctor Ronny Jackson wrote in a memo that “the bullet mark left a two-centimeter-wide wound that reached the cartilage surface of the ear.”

Almost two weeks after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the investigations surrounding it, the profile of the shooter is slowly becoming clearer. Wray’s testimony also addressed the assassin’s preparations for his act.

Video | Assassination attempt on Donald Trump: The bullet narrowly missed his head

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According to this, the 20-year-old shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, may not have made the final decision to commit the crime until about a week before the shooting. FBI chief Wray told the committee that Crooks entered a revealing search query into Google on July 6 – the day the campaign rally with Trump in Butler (US state of Pennsylvania) was announced. According to this, Crooks searched that day: “How far was Oswald from Kennedy?”

This is a reference to the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The then Democratic US President was on the campaign trail in the city of Dallas (US state of Texas) in a motorcade when he was allegedly shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. He fired several shots from a window on the fifth floor of a school book warehouse that the motorcade was driving past. The distance was approximately 80 meters.

Two days after his arrest, Oswald was killed in police custody by Jack Ruby. To this day, numerous theories and conspiracy myths circulate about the exact circumstances of Kennedy’s assassination.

Former US President Donald Trump was shot and injured in the ear at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania the Saturday before last. The assassin aimed at Trump from the roof of a building about 125 meters away. The shooter was killed after his attack.

As part of the investigation, more and more details are coming to light about various mishaps in the security authorities. You can read more about this here. As a result, the head of the Secret Service, which is responsible for the security of current and former presidents, also resigned. You can read more about the resignation here. According to US media, there are also uncertainties regarding the security of the building from which the perpetrator fired the shot.