Former WH Doc Shreds FBI’s Wray Over Trump Rally Wound

Former President Donald Trump is currently receiving medical attention from Dr. Ronny Jackson, who was formerly the White House doctor and is now a Texas Republican Representative. Dr. Jackson, familiar to many from his previous role, posted a letter on X (formerly Twitter) to clarify details after FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested during a congressional hearing that the former president might have been struck by something other than a bullet.

"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," Dr. Jackson wrote. "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."

Dr. Jackson reviewed President Trump's medical records from Butler Memorial Hospital, where Trump was initially treated for a "Gunshot Wound to the Right Ear." Drawing from his extensive experience as an Emergency Medicine physician in the United States Navy and as a combat physician in Iraq, Dr. Jackson confirmed, "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."

During the congressional hearing, FBI Director Wray suggested alternative possibilities for the injury, such as shrapnel or glass. Dr. Jackson firmly countered this, stating, "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."

Emphasizing his deep understanding of the situation's significance, Dr. Jackson added, "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."

When Director Wray testified before Congress, he mentioned uncertainty about what had struck the former president. "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 to clarify, stating, "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."

Dr. Jackson also appeared on Fox Business with host Larry Kudlow, where he criticized Director Wray's comments. "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," he stated.

"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 concluded.