Doctor With Knowledge Of Trump’s Wound Disputes FBI Director’s Questioning Of Whether Bullet Caused Injury

Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician with direct knowledge about former President Donald Trump’s ear wound, disputed FBI Director Christopher Wray on Friday after he previously questioned whether a bullet caused the former president’s injury.

Wray said on Wednesday that “there’s some question” on whether Trump got hit by “a bullet or shrapnel” during the July 13 assassination attempt while testifying to the House Judiciary Committee about the FBI’s handling of the incident. Jackson released a statement on Friday saying there is “absolutely no evidence” anything other than a bullet injured Trump’s upper right ear.

“During the Congressional Hearing two days ago, FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that it could be a bullet, shrapnel, or glass,” Jackson wrote. “There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet. Congress should correct the record as confirmed by both the hospital and myself. Director Wray is wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else.”

Jackson said he has treated many gunshot wounds throughout his 20-year career as an emergency medicine physician in the U.S. Navy and as a combat physician in Iraq. He wrote in his assessment that he can “completely concur” with the initial assessment and treatment provided to Trump at Butler Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for a gunshot wound to the ear.

Wray testified to the House Judiciary Committee that Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, used a semiautomatic AR-15-style rifle with a collapsible stock during the shooting. Trump exited the rally with blood dripping down his face from his upper right ear.

“I think with respect to former President Trump there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, that hit his ear,” Wray testified during the Wednesday hearing. “As I sit here right now, I don’t know if that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, also could have landed somewhere else.”