NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s The campaign released an update on the former president’s health on Saturday, a week after he survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The memo, from Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served as Trump’s White House doctor, offers new details about the nature of the Republican candidate’s injuries and the treatment he received shortly after the attack.
According to Jackson, Trump suffered a gunshot wound to his right ear caused by a high-powered rifle that came “within a quarter of an inch of entering his head and struck the top of his right ear.”
The bullet trail, he said, “produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended to the cartilaginous surface of the ear. There was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling throughout the upper ear.”
Although the swelling has gone and the wound “is beginning to granulate and heal properly,” he said Trump is still bleeding intermittently, requiring the bandage that was on display at last week’s Republican National Convention.
“Given the broad and blunt nature of the wound itself, no sutures were necessary,” he wrote.
Trump was initially treated by medical staff at Butler Memorial Hospital. According to Jackson, doctors “provided a thorough evaluation for additional injuries that included a CT scan of his head.”
Trump, he said, “will perform additional assessments, including a comprehensive hearing exam, as needed. He will follow up with his primary care physician as directed by the doctors who initially evaluated him,” he wrote.
“In summary, former President Trump is well and recovering as expected from the gunshot wound he suffered last Saturday afternoon,” he added.
The letter is the first official update about the former president’s condition since the night of the shooting.
Jackson, a strong Trump supporter, said in the letter that, as Trump’s former doctor, he was deeply concerned about the former president’s well-being following the attack and met with him in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Saturday night. , after Trump returned from Pennsylvania.” to see how he is doing in person and offer my help in any way I can.”
He said he has been with Trump ever since, evaluating and treating his injury daily. That includes traveling with him on Saturday to Michigan, where the former president will hold his first rally since the shooting, accompanied by his newly named running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.
It is unclear whether Jackson remains a licensed physician. A spokesperson for the congressman did not immediately respond, and the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to questions.
Records from the American Board of Emergency Medicine show that Jackson holds a certification in Emergency Medicine, valid until the end of 2015.
Last year, the Trump campaign released a letter on President Joe Biden’s 81st birthday from Dr. Bruce A. Aronwald, a New Jersey doctor who said he has been the former president’s doctor since 2021.
