Trump Didn't Get Hit by a Bullet? FBI Director Chris Wray Drops Insane Take on Rally Shooting

FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared to downplay the July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump by questioning whether he was actually struck by a bullet.

Wray made this suggestion twice during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

According to the committee's website, the purpose of the hearing was to “examine the FBI’s investigation into the assassination attempt against President Trump and the ongoing politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency under the direction of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.”

At one point, Republican Rep. Kevin Kiley of California asked, “Director Wray, to the best of your understanding, how close did the assassin’s bullet come to killing President Trump?”

Wray responded, “My understanding is that either it or some shrapnel is what, you know, grazed his ear, so I don’t know that I have the actual distance.”

Kiley interjected, “Very, very close, you would agree?”

“Yes,” Wray confirmed.

Later, House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan questioned Wray about the trajectory of all the bullets fired during the attempt on Trump’s life.

“Where did all eight bullets go is, I guess, my question,” asked the Republican congressman from Ohio.

“I don’t have that in front of me,” Wray replied, repeating his speculation about the nature of Trump’s injury. “As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.”

“I don’t know right now whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have landed somewhere else,” he added.

Whether Wray intended to minimize Trump’s injury is unclear, but his wording suggested as much.

Regardless, it’s alarming that almost two weeks after the assassination attempt, Wray still cannot definitively say whether the former president was hit by a bullet or shrapnel.

Even more troubling is the lack of clarity from the Secret Service, which has yet to explain the significant security lapses that allowed Trump to be shot.

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if he was hit by a bullet or shrapnel, because either could have been fatal.

While Americans struggle to afford groceries, billions of tax dollars are allocated to the FBI ($11 billion) and the Secret Service ($3 billion) each year. Yet, neither agency can account for what happened on July 13.

If you can’t understand what caused a problem, you can’t prevent it from happening again. That is deeply concerning, especially during an election year.

Every day, our ineffective federal government demonstrates it’s a bloated swamp that needs to be drained — and quickly.