Dr. Ronny Jackson, a Republican Texas congressman, is pushing back against growing criticisms that former President Donald Trump did not suffer from a gunshot wound during a failed assassination plot, claiming that such suggestions are “wrong.”
“The would-be assassin fired multiple rounds from a relatively close distance using a high-powered rifle, with one bullet striking the former President, and now the Republican Nominee for President, in his right ear,” Jackson wrote in a memorandum released on Friday.
Jackson served as Trump’s White House physician and, in the memo commenting on conspiracy theories surrounding Trump’s injuries, claimed that he has continued to monitor the former president’s health and well-being since the July 13 incident.
“Based on my direct observations of the injury, my relevant clinical background, and my significant experience evaluating and treating patients with similar wounds, I completely concur with the initial assessment and treatment provided by the doctors and nurses at Butler Memorial Hospital on the day of the shooting,” he added.
“There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet,” Jackson continued. “Congress should correct the record as confirmed by both the hospital and myself. Director Wray is wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, where he cast some doubt that Trump had been injured by a bullet during the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting earlier this month. Wray appeared to suggest that Trump may have been struck by shrapnel instead.
When Wray was asked, “How close did the assassin’s bullet come to killing President Trump?” he responded, “My understanding is that either it or some shrapnel is what, you know, grazed his ear. So I don’t know that I have the actual distance.” One day later, Trump struck back.
“FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!), but he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively ‘uneventful’ — Wrong!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Thursday. “No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel.”
The FBI is now seeking to interview Trump and obtain a victim statement, according to CNN.
Thursday’s update echoes a previous memo from Jackson nearly one week ago, where he first claimed that the bullet came “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.”
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Jackson is, in addition to being Trump’s and former President Barack Obama‘s former physician, best known for claiming that Trump might live to be 200 years “if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years” after a physical in 2018.
According to Jackson, Trump is “rapidly recovering” from his injuries.
