FBI director questions whether Trump was struck by bullet as ex-prez’s team decries ‘conspiracy bulls–t’
The head of the FBI made the stunning assertion Wednesday that former President Donald Trump may not have been struck by an actual bullet when a deranged gunman attempted to assassinate him at a political rally — and was instead injured by shrapnel.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee in a hearing that it was not clear precisely what caused the injury to Trump’s ear during the shooting.
“With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,” Wray said in response to a question from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Jordan had asked about the eight shots fired by the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, at the doomed Pennsylvania rally on July 13.
“We obviously know that Mr. Comperatore lost his life, two other rally-goers were injured, and then the one that hit President Trump,” Jordan began before asking: “Where did all eight bullets go?”
Trump’s team blasted the astonishing assertion Thursday as “conspiracy bulls–t.”
“Anyone who believes this conspiracy bulls–t is either mentally deficient or willfully peddling falsehoods for political reasons,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told The Post.
“We have seen there is no depth low enough for the Biden-Harris Administration. So it’s not surprising they are doing this now,” he added.
The FBI director’s comments contradict the GOP nominee’s version of the near-death experience, which he described as a “very surreal experience” that was “supposed” to leave him dead.
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” Trump said in an interview with The Post one day after the shooting at his campaign rally in Butler, Pa.
“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead.”
Trump, 78, also recalled being ushered away from the chaotic scene by Secret Service agents despite wanting to continue his speech.
“I just wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot,” he said.
The Republican nominee’s doctor previously said the bullet came “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head.”
“As reported and witnessed by the entire world, he sustained a gunshot wound to the right ear from a high-powered rifle used by the would-be assassin,” former White House physician and current Congressman Ronny Jackson said in a statement on Saturday, a week after the shooting.
“The bullet track produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear,” wrote Jackson, (R-Texas), noting he examined Trump the night he was shot.
“There was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear.”
The baby-faced gunman was shot dead by Secret Service snipers seconds after he fired the eight rounds into the crowd.
Trump, meanwhile, also attacked Wray on Truth Social Wednesday, accusing the FBI director, whom he hired in 2017, of “sweet talking” the committee when it came to his concerns over President Biden’s apparent mental decline.
“I watched the Congressional Hearing today as Christopher Wray was asked the question whether or not he noticed any Cognitive Degeneration in his many conversations with Crooked Joe Biden,” Trump fired off.
“[D]espite the fact that Special Counsel Robert Hur said, effectively, that Joe Biden is INCOMPETENT, with LITTLE MEMORY, etc., Wray said that ‘it is not something I observed during my interactions with him, which were uneventful and unremarkable,’ essentially stating that he found nothing wrong, mentally or physically, with ‘Joe,’” the former president continued.
“If that is the case, Director Wray should resign immediately from the FBI,” Trump demanded.
The former president argued that “anybody can see that Joe Biden is cognitively and physically challenged, and if you can’t see that, you sure as hell can’t be running the FBI.”
Numerous Republicans have accused the Biden administration, including Vice President Kamala Harris, of engaging in a cover-up to hide the president’s decline from the public.
Biden, 81, announced Sunday that he was ending his re-election bid amid mounting calls for him to drop out of the race over concerns about his health.
However, he vowed to remain in office through the end of his term.
