Trump's narrow escape: Was it a bullet or a teleprompter fragment?
There are some doubts as to whether Donald Trump was shot or injured by a teleprompter fragment, AFP reported on Thursday, citing FBI Director Chris Wray's words. He testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
The FBI Director said during the Congressional hearing that, to his knowledge, it is unclear whether Trump was shot, or if a teleprompter fragment "grazed his ear."
"Took a bullet for democracy"
The FBI is investigating the attempted assassination of the former president, which resulted in one death and two injuries. The Secret Service killed the shooter.
At his first rally after the attempt on his life, which took place on Saturday in Michigan, Trump declared that he "took a bullet for democracy."
"I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening," Trump wrote a few hours after the incident in a post on his platform, Truth Social.
A week after the shooting, a statement was published by Ronny Jackson, who served as Trump's physician at the White House, in which he wrote that the former president had suffered a gunshot wound to his right ear.
On July 13, Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, became the target of a failed assassination attempt by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who shot at him from a distance of 140 metres during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
