Is Trump lying about the bullet?
Donald Trump has already responded at length to the assassination attempt he survived during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be dead," Trump responded in an interview with U.S. newspaper The New York Post. "By luck or by God, a lot of people say it's by God that I'm still here."
Trump was eventually protected and led off the stage by Secret Service agents with a blood spatter on his face.
The Republican presidential candidate himself claims he received a bullet through the ear, but other sources have initially reported that a bullet ricocheted off the teleprompter, the transparent screen on which Trump reads his speech, after which the glass broke and he received those shards in the face and ear.
But the former president insists that a bullet did whiz through his ear and he thus escaped death. "The doctor at the hospital said he had never seen anything like that before, he called it a miracle," Trump said in a comment to The New York Times. During the interview, he did not want photos taken, but he was wearing a large white bandage around the ear, according to the reporter.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he was "shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear."
"I immediately knew something was wrong, because I heard a whooshing sound, gunshots and immediately felt the bullet tear through my skin. There was a lot of blood loss, so then I realized what was going on. God bless AMERICA!" he wrote.
(SR for Tagtik/Source: New York Post/Illustration picture: Picture by Michel Vadon via Wikicommons licensed under cc_by_2_0)
