'No stitches': Eric Trump backtracks after claiming shooter 'took off half' of dad's ear
Eric Trump is now changing his story about the injury his father suffered in an assassination attempt.
Speaking to Forbes at the Republican National Convention Monday, Trump's son said, "Well, it's been a pretty somber mood, right? I mean, my father got shot at. Somebody took off half of his ear."
Posting on social media Saturday night, the elder Trump said a bullet had "pierced" the upper part of his ear.
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Even Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who served as Trump's White House doctor, told The New York Times that "the bullet took a little bit off the top of his ear in an area that, just by nature, bleeds like crazy."
Thus far no medical reports have been released about Trump's injury.
Now, in a Wednesday interview with "CBS Mornings," Eric Trump downplayed the wound.
In the new interview, he said it wasn't bad enough to warrant stitches, but there was a "nice flesh wound."
"The greatest earache he's ever had," Eric recalled his father saying.
"You know, he was millimeters away from having his life expunged ... I'm sure the ear doesn't feel well," he continued.
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