On Friday (26), the FBI, the US Federal Department of Investigation, stated that Donald Trump was hit by a bullet, or a fragment thereof, fired by the alleged assassin during the July 13 rally in the city of Butler , in Pennsylvania.
“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, either whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the dead shooter’s rifle,” the department said in a statement.
The new statement is the most direct from federal authorities yet on the nature of Trump’s injury. However, this changes little in practical terms.
Some officials had previously said publicly that it was unclear whether Trump was hit by a bullet or by shrapnel, which is fragments of ammunition. Earlier this week, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to Congress that “there is some question as to whether it was a bullet or shrapnel that struck the former president’s ear.”
Other officers questioned whether what hit Trump was actually a bullet, or whether he was actually injured by a piece of glass — or even whether he suffered the injury when he fell.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that he was hit by an intact bullet, writing on Truth Social that “it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel.”
Former White House doctor Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson, who has been monitoring Trump since the assassination attempt, said Friday that “there is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet” and suggested that Wray was “wrong and inappropriate” for claiming otherwise.
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