Bullet was millimetres from entering Trump’s head, left 2cm wound, ex-White House doctor says
- Ronny Jackson has given one of the first detailed accounts of the injury sustained by the ex-US president in last week’s assassination bid
Donald Trump’s former doctor said on Saturday that the Republican presidential candidate sustained a 2cm (almost one inch) gunshot wound during last week’s attempted assassination, but that his ear is starting to heal.
The memo from former White House doctor Ronny Jackson, now a hardline right-wing lawmaker from Texas, is one of the first detailed accounts of the injury Trump sustained when a young gunman opened fire at a rally in Pennsylvania one week ago, killing one bystander and wounding two others.
“The bullet passed, coming less than a quarter of an inch [6.35mm] from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear,” wrote Jackson, who said he flew to see Trump in New Jersey late on the evening of the rally and had been treating his ear ever since.
“The bullet track produced a 2cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear. There was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear,” he continued.
The swelling has since gone down, and the wound “is beginning to granulate and heal properly”, he wrote in the memo, published by Trump on his Truth Social network.
There is still some bleeding requiring a bandage, but “given the broad and blunt nature of the wound itself, no sutures were required”, Jackson wrote.
