The FBI‘s director has cast doubt on whether Donald Trump was struck by a bullet during the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania political rally.
Christopher Wray was updating Congress about the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler on Wednesday when he made the explosive statement.
HIS STATEMENT
‘With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,’ Wray said.
‘I don’t know right now whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have landed somewhere else.’
Wray was addressing security failures that allowed gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks to open fire. Crooks, 20, killed firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50, and injured two others including Trump during the shooting.
The presidential hopeful has since given extensive accounts of the moment he was shot and was seen sporting a bandage over his ear.
TRUMP EXPLAINED THE INCIDENT
‘When I went down, bullets were coming over my head and you hear them, it’s like a zip, zip,’ he said.
The former president claims his Secret Service detail ‘thought it was over when I went down’ because of ‘a lot of blood coming’ after his ear was grazed.
Trump, 78, argued with his agents, telling them how he was ‘not going on a stretcher’ and instead vowed to ‘get up’.
He added that a last minute turn of the head to glance at a screen is what saved him from the bullet.
