FBI Issues Definitive Statement on What Wounded Trump in Rally Shooting

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The FBI issued a statement declaring former President Donald Trump was struck by a bullet and not glass or other shrapnel almost two weeks ago when a gunman fired on him at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

The clarification came two days day after FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress there was a possibility that Trump had been nicked in the ear by something other than a would-be killer’s bullet.

Fox News anchor Bret Baier shared the statement on his X (formerly Twitter) page Friday afternoon.

The bureau said, “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.”

As ABC News reported , Wray was speaking to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan when he raised the possibility that Trump could have been bloodied from the ear by something other than a bullet the FBI had said was fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks .

“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,” Wray said. “It’s conceivable – although 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.”

Wray’s comments prompted a response from Trump, who unleashed on the man he appointed to lead the FBI in a lengthy post from his Truth Social account. Trump wrote:

“FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!), but he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively “uneventful” – Wrong! That’s why he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our Country at record levels. His only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, Raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in D.C. burning American flags and spray painting over our great National Monuments – with zero retribution. No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel. The hospital called it a “bullet wound to the ear,” and that is what it was. No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!

The FBI’s Friday statement also elicited a response from Trump, who said he was owed an apology.

“I assume that’s the best apology that we’ll get from Director Wray, but it is fully accepted!” Trump wrote .