Former President Donald Trump was not happy when FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Wednesday that Trump could have been hit by shrapnel and not a bullet on July 13.
Wray’s theory was given in a congressional hearing held about the assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, per Fox News.
“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, hit his ear,” Wray testified.
Trump blasted back with a post on his social platform Truth Social.
“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.
“That’s why he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our Country at record levels. His only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, Raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in D.C. burning American flags and spray painting over our great National Monuments – with zero retribution,” Trump wrote.
“No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel. The hospital called it a “bullet wound to the ear,” and that is what it was. No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!”
Trump nominated Wray as the FBI director in 2017.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed by the Secret Service. One audience member, Corey Comperatore, died when he was shot protecting his family. Two others were critically injured.
Trump was treated at a nearby hospital and attended the Republican National Convention days later with a bandage on his ear. That bandage quickly became a fashion statement at the convention when delegates attached bandages to their right ear, the IJR reported.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) also criticized Wray’s assessment with his own statement at the hearing, Fox News reported.
“We’ve all seen the video, we’ve seen the analysis, we’ve heard it from multiple sources in different angles that a bullet went through his ear. I’m not sure it matters that much,” Johnson said.
Johnson also said Wray “was not forthcoming with some of the information that we would expect.”
“There’s a lot of frustration and concern about the leadership with these agencies,” he said.
