Trump Rages Against His Own FBI Director, Insisting a Bullet Hit His Ear — and the New York Times Concurs

‘No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard,’ Trump says. ‘There was no glass, there was no shrapnel.’

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Trump wears a bandage on his ear while greeting Vance on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum July 15, 2024 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

President Trump is railing against his handpicked FBI director, Christopher Wray — and his doctor, Congressman Ronny Jackson, is backing him up — over his comments saying that there hasn’t been a conclusive report as to whether Trump’s ear was grazed by a bullet or shrapnel.

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