The doctor who is currently treating former President Donald Trump after the attack on him in Butler, Pennsylvania, is a familiar face as he was the former White House doctor and current Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson.
He posted a letter on X, formerly Twitter, after FBI Director Christopher Wray insinuated, during a hearing before Congress, that the former president may have been hit with something other than a bullet, and he wanted to set the record straight.
“As the former Physician to the President for President Donald J. Trump, I have continued to monitor his health and well-being, along with his primary care physician, since the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on the evening of July 13th. 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,” the Republican said.
“I have reviewed President Trump’s medical records from Butler Memorial Hospital, where he was initially evaluated and treated for a “Gunshot Wound to the Right Ear.” Having served as an Emergency Medicine physician for over 20 years in the United States Navy, including as a combat physician on the battlefield in Iraq, I have treated many gunshot wounds in my career. 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 said.
“During the Congressional Hearing two days ago, FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that it could be a bullet, shrapnel, or glass. There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet. Congress should co1Tect the record as confirmed by both the hospital and myself. Director Wray is wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else,” Jackson continued.
“As a former White House Physician for 14 years, who served during three presidential administrations, and served as the appointed physician for both President Obama and President Trump, I fully understand the global significance of this attempt on the life of the former President and the current Republican Nominee for President. As such, I want to reassure the American people and the rest of the world, that President Trump is doing extremely well. He is rapidly recovering from the gunshot wound to his right ear. I will continue to be available to assist President Trump and his personal physician in any way they see fit and will provide updates as necessary and with the permission of President Trump,” he said.
Update on President Trump’s recovery from the bullet wound to his ear. pic.twitter.com/zLQuvk5cnQ
— Ronny Jackson (@RepRonnyJackson) July 26, 2024
When Wray testified before Congress, he spoke about the former president’s injury as if what he was struck by was still unknown.
“There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” he said. “As I sit here right now, I don’t know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else.”
The FBI later issued a memo where it corrected the record.
“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the agency said.
Jackson also appeared on Fox Business where he spoke to host Larry Kudlow about what the FBI Director said.
“This is absolutely ridiculous that he would make a comment like this. This degrades any level of credibility that this man may have had after years of weaponizing the FBI and the DOJ against the president. It was absolutely a bullet. I examined it. It was a track of a bullet. It was scooped out in the, in the, just as it would be in the track of a bullet. It had the telltale other damage that is associated with it,” the representative said.
“All the surrounding tissue in the ear was swollen and edematous. His ear looked like a, you know, a wrestler’s ear when it’s, it was fat and swollen. And that goes along with the trauma from a high-velocity bullet as it passes through tissue,” he said.
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