FBI Confirms that Bullets Were Fired at Trump and a Bullet Hit Trump

From [HERE] Former President Donald Trump was struck with a bullet during an assassination attempt at a western Pennsylvania campaign rally, the FBI said Friday.

“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 bureau said in a statement seeking to dispel conflicting accounts of the July 13 shooting. FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers earlier this week that officials were still analyzing evidence to determine what hit Trump: a bullet, shrapnel, glass or something else.

At an event Friday night, Trump said he had just taken off the ear bandage.

Several investigations are under way into how the 20-year-old was able to climb onto a rooftop with a clear line of sight to Trump and open fire with an AR-15 rifle. A spectator, Corey Comperatore, was killed and two other people were critically injured. A Secret Service sniper team shot back, killing Crooks.

Trump said Friday that he planned to return to the farm show grounds in Butler, Pa., the site of the assassination attempt, for a rally that would honor Comperatore and those who were hurt. 

The shooting marked the Secret Service’s most stunning failure since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, leading Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign on Tuesday. Wray testified the following day before the House Judiciary Committee, giving circumspect responses to questions about Trump’s injury that drew criticism from some Republicans.

Friday’s FBI statement was the first law-enforcement account of Trump’s injuries. Authorities had earlier refused to provide details on what struck him, and Trump hasn’t released his medical records. Trump and his former White House physician, Ronnie Jackson, have repeatedly asserted that Trump was struck by a bullet. Last week, Jackson released a detailed account of how a bullet struck and wounded the former president.