New details revealed about Trump bullet wound

Donald Trump’s White House doctor has shared new details about the bullet wound that the former president sustained on his right ear during the July 13 assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

In a letter that Trump shared on his social media site, Truth Social, Texas Representative Ronny Jackson wrote that the bullet had pierced part of the cartilage of the former president’s ear, creating a wound two centimetres wide.

A smaller bandage on former president Donald Trump’s ear when he attended a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday (US time).Credit: AP

Jackson said the wound had at first caused significant bleeding and marked swelling of the entire upper ear. It had not required stitches, he wrote, adding that the wound was healing properly but still needed to be dressed because of intermittent bleeding.

“The bullet passed, coming less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear,” Jackson wrote.

The update came a week after a gunman targeted Trump during a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania, an attack condemned by Trump’s staunchest allies and his toughest critics. At the time of the shooting, doctors and hospital officials in Pennsylvania did not hold any medical briefings about the nature of Trump’s injuries or those of the other victims. One rally attendee was killed in the shooting, and two others were critically injured.

Trump made his first public appearance two days later, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, with his ear covered in gauze. His ear was covered again the next three nights of the convention, including Thursday, when he accepted his party’s presidential nomination for a third time.

Trump wore a bandage on his ear on Saturday while campaigning for the first time with his new running mate, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jackson said in his letter that he was with Trump in Grand Rapids.

According to Jackson’s letter, Trump underwent a CT scan of his head while doctors at Butler Memorial Hospital treated him on July 13.

“He will have further evaluations, including a comprehensive hearing exam, as needed,” Jackson wrote, adding that Trump would also follow up with his primary care physician.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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