FBI Confirms Trump Was Struck in Ear by Bullet During Assassination Attempt

The FBI confirmed that the former president was hit by a bullet, ‘whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces,’ during the July 13 shooting.

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage after an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo

The FBI on July 26 clarified that former President Donald Trump was hit by a bullet or a bullet fragment during an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania earlier this month, after the FBI’s director last week suggested that glass, shrapnel, or a bullet could have struck the former president’s ear.

During a congressional hearing on July 25, FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers that with regard to the shooting of former President Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally, there was “some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.”