Was Trump Struck By Bullet or Shrapnel? FBI Director Testifies There’s ‘Some Questions’

FBI Director Christopher Wray says there’s “some query” about whether or not former President Donald Trump was struck by a bullet or shrapnel throughout the July 13 try on his life.

Wray testified on Wednesday, July 24 earlier than the Home Judiciary Committee concerning the ongoing investigation into the assassination try.

“With respect to former President Trump, there’s some query about whether or not or not it is a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Wray responded to Chairman Jim Jordan, who requested him if the FBI had accounted for all gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks‘ bullets, per ABC Information and CBS Information.

“It is conceivable, though as I sit right here proper now, I do not know whether or not that bullet, along with inflicting the grazing, might have additionally landed some other place,” Wray added. “However I imagine we have accounted for all of the photographs within the cartridges.”

Trump, 78, was talking at a rally in Butler, Penn. on Saturday, July 13, when gunshots rang out. The Republican presidential nominee flinched and raised his hand to his proper ear earlier than being tackled to the bottom by Secret Service brokers. As he acquired as much as be escorted away, blood may very well be seen on his ear and face.

Later that night, Trump posted his first replace after the capturing on Fact Social.

“I used to be shot with a bullet that pierced the higher a part of my proper ear,” the publish learn. “I knew instantly that one thing was mistaken in that I heard a whizzing sound, photographs, and instantly felt the bullet ripping by means of the pores and skin. A lot bleeding happened, so I noticed then what was taking place.”

In a follow-up publish Sunday, July 14, Trump wrote, “Thanks to everybody in your ideas and prayers yesterday, because it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from taking place. We’ll FEAR NOT, however as a substitute stay resilient in our Religion and Defiant within the face of Wickedness. Our love goes out to the opposite victims and their households,” referencing Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who was killed. Two others have been additionally injured.

On Monday, July 15, Trump appeared on the Republican Nationwide Conference with a big white bandage on his proper ear, which he continued to put on all through the remainder of the occasion.

On Thursday, July 18, Trump once more spoke about his harm after formally accepting his occasion’s nomination.

“I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt one thing hit me actually, actually laborious on my proper ear. I mentioned to myself, ‘Wow what was that? It could solely be a bullet,’ ” Trump recalled. “I moved my proper hand to my ear, introduced it down, my hand was lined with blood. Simply completely blood in every single place. I instantly knew it was very severe, that we have been underneath assault, and in a single motion proceeded to drop to the bottom.”

At one other rally in Michigan on Saturday, July 20, Trump — now not carrying a bandage — mentioned, “Final week, I took a bullet for democracy.”

That very same day, Axios reported Trump’s former White Home doctor and Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson shared a memo about Trump’s harm. Within the memo, Jackson wrote that “the bullet observe produced a 2 cm vast wound that prolonged right down to the cartilaginous floor of the ear.”

On Wednesday, Wray, 57, additionally testified that the gunman had flown a drone over the rally grounds two hours earlier than the occasion, and that Crooks had searched on-line concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy days previous to the capturing.

“There’s a complete lot of labor underway and nonetheless numerous work to do,” Wray added concerning the ongoing investigation.