Donald Trump was hit by bullet or bullet fragments in assassination attempt, FBI says

A Washington post Two trauma surgeons, Babak Sarani, said an analysis of photos and videos of the shooting showed that former President Trump’s injuries appeared to be consistent with bullet grazies rather than injuries caused by bullet fragments. The doctors reviewed the results of a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Emergency Surgery at the George Washington University Hospital and Johns Hopkins University. postalanalysis.

“Usually shrapnel flies out randomly. Because it’s shrapnel, right? It doesn’t go in a straight line. I describe this as really looking like a linear laceration,” Sarani told postal“So it was something, it was traveling in a straight line, which makes you think it was more like the projectile itself than it was shrapnel.”

High-speed bullets, such as those that might Fired by a liarwhich creates an energy or explosive effect when it hits the body. Abrasions like the former president’s would not create an explosive effect, Sarani said.

“The bullet actually just grazes you, so very little of the energy is transmitted to you. The rest of the energy is dissipated into the air,” he added. “If you’re lucky, that’s why. The bullet just grazes you.”

Just hours after the assassination, Trump began insisting that he was hit by a bullet.

“I was hit by a bullet that went through my upper right ear,” he wrote in a Truth Social post published at 8:42 p.m. on July 13, less than three hours after the shooting. “I knew something was wrong right away because I heard a whoosh, gunshot, and then immediately felt the bullet go through the skin. Bleeding profusely so I realized what was happening.”

Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee that the exact nature of Trump’s injury remained uncertain. “I think it’s still a question for former President Trump whether he was struck in the ear by a bullet or shrapnel,” he told lawmakers on Thursday.

Trump’s doctor says ‘there is no evidence it was not a bullet’

Representative Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), former White House physician Monitoring Trump’s health since the assassination attemptcriticized Wray’s remarks.

“There is absolutely no evidence that this was not caused by a bullet,” Jackson wrote in an update on Trump’s health. “Congress should correct the record as confirmed by the hospital and myself. It is wrong and inappropriate for Director Wray to suggest otherwise.”

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., wrote to Wray urging him to “correct your remarks during your testimony before Congress on Wednesday, when you stated you were unsure whether President Donald J. Trump was struck by a bullet, glass or shrapnel.”

“It is clear to everyone that President Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt by only millimeters because the assassin’s bullet ripped open the upper part of his ear,” Graham wrote in a letter Trump published on his Truth Social post.

It was one of several posts Trump has made over the past two days criticizing Wray’s testimony.

He made another post after the FBI released a statement confirming he had been shot.

“I think this is the best apology we’ve ever gotten from Director Wray,” he said of the FBI’s conclusion, “but we totally accept it!”