FBI Confirms Trump Was Struck in Ear by Bullet During Assassination Attempt

Published on July 28, 2024

The FBI on July 26 clarified that former President Donald Trump was hit by a bullet or a bullet fragment during an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania earlier this month after the FBI’s director last week suggested that glass, shrapnel, or a bullet could have struck the former president’s ear. During a congressional hearing on July 25, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers that that with regard to the shooting of former President Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally, there was “some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.” In a statement issued to The Epoch Times, a spokesperson for the FBI said that “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.”...