The FBI said Friday that a bullet struck Donald Trump‘s ear during an assassination attempt on the former president this month at a campaign rally after the bureau’s director suggested to Congress that it could have been shrapnel.
“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,” the FBI said in a statement.
The statement comes two days after FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump nominated to his post in 2017, told House lawmakers that “there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, hit his ear.”
The director’s remarks sparked widespread backlash among Republican lawmakers, as well as Trump.
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