Only two days after surviving an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump appeared on stage with a bandaged right ear during the first night of the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Many Trump supporters attending the event later wore fake bandages as an expression of solidarity with the GOP presidential nominee.
Since the July 13 attack, there has been much discussion of the shooter, the response of U.S. Secret Service agents, and the nature of the injury Trump suffered.
In a Thursday post on X, Dr. Jonathan Reiner — a professor of medicine at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. — writes, "It's an understatement to say that it's bizarre that a presidential candidate has sustained an injury from an attempted assassination and no medical report is issued to describe his evaluation and the extent of his injury."
Journalist Brian Beutler, in response, tweeted, "My read: If the medical evaluation matched Trump's description, he would have OK'd its release. He wants the cred of having been shot; being shot *at* and lightly injured incidentally isn't good enough for him. So as always he chose a lie and a coverup."
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has also been weighing in on the nature of the injuries Trump suffered.
The Never Trump conservative tweeted, "Outside of Trump telling us he's 'fine,' how severe was the wound? Did he loose part of his ear (bullets do terrible things to flesh)? How long for recovery? Will the wound require cosmetic surgery? What about reports that it may not have been a bullet which wounded him but glass from the shattered teleprompter?"
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