Precious little is publicly known about the medical treatment that Donald Trump has received since a gunman injured the former president in an assassination attempt over the weekend. But one man in the know is Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Trump’s former White House physician.
In an interview Monday, Jackson said Trump was missing “a little bit at the top” of his ear in the wake of the shooting. “I went up and dressed his ear this morning,” Jackson told right-wing media figure Benny Johnson. The white bandage on Trump’s ear has become so much of a talking point at the current Republican National Convention that some attendees have even started bandaging their own ears to show their support to the wounded presumptive nominee.
Jackson separately told The New York Times about how he’d called Trump after the shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, offering to help him however he could. “I would prefer to have you here,” Jackson says Trump told him. “And I said, ‘OK, enough said.’”
