The Bureau released a new statement after its director was grilled at a contentious Congress hearing.
The FBI has confirmed that former US President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet during an attempt on his life earlier this month. The clarification was made after FBI Director Christopher Wray caught flak for doubting that it was a bullet that wounded Trump.
“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 short statement on Friday.
The shooter, later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, climbed on a roof of a building and fired several shots at Trump when he was delivering a speech at an open-air campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. The former president was slightly injured, while one spectator was killed and two more were wounded. Crooks was killed by a sniper from the Secret Service. Investigators have still not determined a motive behind the would-be assassin’s actions.
FBI chief Wray stirred some controversy during his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, when he said that “there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, that hit [Trump’s] ear.” Wray was quickly slammed by Republicans and Trump himself, who said that statements like these are why “the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America.”
Trump’s personal physician Ronny Jackson said that there was “no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet,” and argued that it was “wrong and inappropriate” for Wray to argue otherwise. The New York Times and the Washington Post also reported that their analysis of the photos of Trump’s injuries showed that they were consistent with a wound from a bullet and not a bullet fragment.
Wray was not the only one who was heavily criticized for handling the assassination attempt. Kimberly Cheatle resigned as the head of the Secret Service on July 23 after admitting that her agency had “failed” to properly protect the former president.
Where is the brass for the shots fired?
Why was Crooks weapon found seven feet away from his body after suffering a cranial surgical removal sniper shot resulting in instantaneous immobility ?
Was it a training exercise gone ‘real-life’?
Yep… Uh huh… S u r e….
FBI… MMM.
He sure HEALS REALLY FAST….. for an old guy…
Unbelievable healing speed… Wow.
Unbelievable.
Nothing to see here…..
I heal really quick too and I am an old guy. What are you implying, that the attempted assassination did not occur?
FBI are the Democrat/deep state enforcers. You can literally see the swamp slime dripping off of Christopher Wray every time he’s on camera.
He said what he said because it’s a favourite leftist talking point right now, that’s all.
This is the same organisation that covered up real world crimes by Barack Obama, refused to prosecute Hillary Clinton, illegally spied on Donald Trump, ran disinformation campaigns about “Russian” interference in the 2016 election, tried to entrap Trump via quid pro quo during his “perfect phone call” to Zelensky, covered up the Las Vegas mass shooting, actively bussed insurgents around during BLM’s “summer of love”, faked a letter by “former intelligence officials” to denounce Hunter Biden’s laptop as a “Russian disinformation operation”, and very clearly had their hands in the 2020 election steal, both on election night as well as when they had their assets infiltrate a citizens rally and twist it into the Jan6 ““insurrection””.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to learn they were directly involved in the attempt on Trump’s life as well. The shooter’s scrubbed internet history is already almost a dead giveaway. There are also reports of cell tower data tracking visits back and forth between his house and an FBI admin building (which are vehemently being denounced as unverified of course).
It is an openly corrupt and insidious organisation, wrapped in lies and secrecy, and posing as loveable well-meaning idiots. If by the grace of God they fail to steal November’s election, Trump needs to disband it on minute one of day one of his presidency and have its leadership (both current AND former) swiftly banished to Guantanamo Bay.
First mission of the deep state to muddy the water
Poison the well
The FBI has been bent from the beginning
Going back to J Edgar Hoover and his lover Clyde Tolsen
No sh*t sherlock.
And what was between the shooter and Trump that could possibly have cause the bullet to fragment? Wray is trying hard to muddy the water for some reason! Could he explain the lack of gore and splatter behind the shooter after he was head shot with a 300 Win Mag?
Not sure why the arguement between frag and round matters one jot. Multiple shots were fired at Trump. End of story.