Former White House physician to former President Donald Trump and Obama, Ronny Jackson, rebuked FBI director Chris Wray‘s suggestion that the former president wasn’t hit by a bullet in his right ear when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The Texas congressman addressed to “concerned citizens of the United States” announcing he has been monitoring Trump’s health following the attempt made on his life.
“The would-be assassin fired multiple rounds from a relatively close distance using a high-powered rifle, with one bullet striking the former president, and now the Republican nominee for president, in his right ear,” Jackson stated in the memorandum.
CBS News reported:
He said he has reviewed Trump’s medical records from Butler Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for a “gunshot wound to the right ear,” and agrees with the initial assessment and treatment from the medical staff at the hospital.
“There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet,” Jackson added.
He confirmed Trump is “rapidly recovering” from the wound and doing “extremely well.”
The memo from Jackson appears to have been prompted by comments FBI Director Chris Wray made to the House Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing Wednesday, during which he said Trump’s ear was grazed by either shrapnel or a bullet.
“With respect to former President Trump, there is some question about whether it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” he said during his testimony before the Judiciary Committee.
As we reported on Friday, Trump slammed Wray for suggesting he wasn’t hit in the ear by a bullet during an assassination attempt.
Trump responded to Wrays testimony on Truth Social:
“FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!), but he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively ‘uneventful’ – Wrong!” Trump said.
“That’s why he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our Country at record levels. His only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, Raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in D.C. burning American flags and spray painting over our great National Monuments – with zero retribution.”
Trump continued:
“No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard.”
“There was no glass, there was no shrapnel. The hospital called it a ‘bullet wound to the ear,’ and that is what it was. No wonder the once-storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!”
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