“There is some question about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.

FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed during a marathon testimony on Wednesday that investigators still do not know if former President Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet or a piece of shrapnel during his attempted assassination.

Twice during the hours-long session, Wray told lawmakers that the FBI was still working to determine what exactly struck the former president on his right ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “My understanding is that either it [a bullet] or some shrapnel is what grazed his ear,” Wray told Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA).

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    156·
    4 months ago

    Yea, but I don’t think this is worth an article - it might be illuminative to secret service tactics or inform how campaign stands should be constructed but Trump was injured as a result of a gun shot. The article posing this question was probably completely unnecessary and was absolutely needlessly sensationalized.

    • EeeDawg101@lemm.ee
      131·
      4 months ago

      I think it’s worthy of an article because I remember hearing initially, right after the shooting, that it wasn’t quite known if he was actually hit by a bullet or shrapnel. This tells me this is still the case and there hasn’t been a definitive answer given.

      I wonder if the doctors who treated him know? Is it possible to determine based on the injury if it was a bullet vs shrapnel?

      • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
        6·
        4 months ago

        There’s video footage and a known location of the spot the guy shot from.

        All this hesitation is telling me is that it’s confirmed it was not a bullet but Trump likes saying it is and they don’t feel like pushing against it.

        As far as I can tell from the video there’s not a moment where a bullet coming from his far right (heh) could have grazed his ear (that’s particoularly close to his skull) without piercing his skull. He never turns that much to the right.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I don’t think so, unless they found a piece of glass in his ear. Word on the street is a teleprompter, but I don’t know if there’s even any evidence of that. Or of anything else being hit and becoming shrapnel. That would really be the way to tell.