Former White House physician says on his X account that the shots that hit Donald Trump's ear caused a 2-centimeter wound.
The shots that hit Donald Trump's ear during a campaign rally a week ago caused a 2-centimeter-deep wound that is healing, his former White House physician, Ronny Jackson, said in a rare health update since the incident.
"The bullet passed within an inch of the head and struck the top of the right ear," Ronny Jackson wrote in a one-page note posted on his official X account.
The bullet's passage "caused a 2-centimeter-wide wound that extended to the cartilaginous surface of the ear. There was significant bleeding first, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper part of the ear,” adds the former doctor, who became a hard-right House representative.
According to him, the swelling has since gone down and the wound is beginning to “heal properly,” he writes.
The former White House physician distinguished himself in 2018 by praising Donald Trump’s physical robustness and his “great genes,” assuring that if he had “a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he could live to be 200 years old.”
Shortly after this episode, Donald Trump nominated him to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, but Ronny Jackson had to decline following allegations that he had improperly distributed medication and had sometimes been drunk on the job.
Hit by automatic rifle fire that killed one spectator and injured two, Donald Trump had to be evacuated from the meeting, his ear bleeding and his fist raised, images that have been on repeat for a week and have shaken the presidential campaign.
Knighted this week by the entire Republican family at the nomination convention this week, the former President of the United States is holding his first campaign meeting on Saturday since he was the victim of this assassination attempt, in the state of Michigan.
The shooter, a 20-year-old man, whose motives remain unclear, was killed just after shooting.
