Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, Donald Trump’s White House doctor, released a medical update on the former president Saturday, one week after the former president was nearly assassinated during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump was grazed in the ear by a bullet just minutes into his remarks, having turned his head at a critical moment to look at a chart detailing rates of illegal immigration.
A computer animation of when former President Donald Trump turned his head at the last split second causing the bullet to only hit his ear. A miracle if I’ve ever seen one. An absolute miracle. The hand of God protected him.
— Jordan Winters (@Jordan__Winters) July 16, 2024
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The Daily Caller reports Dr. Jackson wrote that Trump is “doing well” since the shooting in a letter addressed to “concerned citizens of the United States” on X (formerly Twitter).
MY FULL STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT TRUMP’S RECOVERY POST-ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. pic.twitter.com/24OokVxfXf
— Ronny Jackson (@RonnyJacksonTX) July 20, 2024
“I have been with President Trump since that time, and I have evaluated and treated his wound daily. He is doing well,” Jackson wrote. “As reported and witnessed by the entire world, he sustained a gunshot wound to right ear from a high-powered rifle used by the would be assassin.”
Trump still suffers “intermittent bleeding” which requires “dressing to be in place,” according to Jackson. The GOP nominee was seen wearing a white bandage over his ear since his first public appearance Monday at the Republican National Convention (RNC). Supporters of the former president have since been observed wearing similar bandages as accessories in a show of solidarity.
Jackson revealed the bullet “came less than a quarter of an inch” from entering Trump’s head, producing a “2 cm wide wound that extended down the cartilaginous surface of the ear.”
Jacksin said there was “initially significant bleeding” which resulted in “marked swelling” of Trump’s “entire upper ear.”
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