FBI doubts whether Trump’s ear was hit by a bullet

The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, has questioned whether it was a bullet that grazed the ear of the former US president and Republican candidate for re-election, Donald Trump, in the attack on July 13 during a pre-campaign event. in Pennsylvania.

“With respect to former President Trump, there are some doubts about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” explained Wray, during an appearance to inform Congress of the status of the investigation into the attempted assassination of the candidate. republican.

Trump appears without his ear bandaged for the first time and without a trace of the gunshot wound https://t.co/gYqt07CW3h

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In this sense, the head of the FBI specified during this hearing that his team is still working to determine what exactly grazed Trump’s right ear.

“The bullet could have landed somewhere else”

Given this, Committee Chairman and Ohio Republican Jim Jordan later asked Wray if investigators knew where the eight bullets fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks ended up after the shooting, according to reports. The Daily Beast. “I don’t know right now if that bullet, in addition to having caused the friction, could have landed somewhere else,” added Wray.

While eight shell casings have been recovered from the roof where the shooter fired at Trump, it is still unclear if any bullets have been found.https://t.co/Me3dgQdBPP

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A few days after the assassination attempt, during a speech at the Republican National Convention, Trump claimed that the bullet had been “a quarter of an inch” away from taking his life. “I heard a loud whistle and I felt something hit me very, very hard in the ear,” the former president described.

Since the day of the shooting – which resulted in the death of firefighter Corey Comperatore – the Republican candidate for re-election has been seen wearing a white bandage around his right ear, the one hit by Crooks’ fire.