FBI says Trump was indeed struck by bullet during assassination attempt

Good morning, Chairman Jordan, ranking member Nadler members of the committee. Uh I want to begin by offering my condolences on the passing representative Jackson Lee who served the people of Texas in this body and on this committee for so long, thank you all for your support of our efforts to protect the American people and uphold the constitution. I am proud to be here today representing the 38,000 special agents, intelligence analysts and professional staff who make up the FBI men and women who every day work relentlessly to counter the most complex threat environment I've seen in my tenure as FBI director maybe in my entire career in law enforcement before I go any further. I also want to acknowledge and offer my deepest condolences to the victims of the horrific assassination attempt in Butler County, to the friends and family of Coy comparator who by all accounts lost his life, protecting others from danger to the other victims, two of whom were critically wounded and of course, of course to President Trump, former President Trump and his family, as I've said from the beginning, the attempted assassination of the former president was an attack on our democracy and our democratic process. And we will not, and do not tolerate political violence of any kind, especially *** despicable account of this magnitude. And I want to assure you and the American people that the men and women of the FBI will continue to work tirelessly to get to the bottom of what happened. We are bringing all the resources of the FBI to bear both criminal and national security. Now, there's *** whole lot of work underway and still *** lot of work to do and our understanding of what happened and why will continue to evolve. But we're going to leave no stone unturned. The shooter may be deceased but the FB I's investigation is very much ongoing to that point. I also want to acknowledge that I recognize both the congressional and the public interest in this case and the importance of this investigation to the American people. And I understand there are *** lot of open questions. So while the investigation is very much ongoing and our assessments of the shooter and his actions continue to evolve. My hope here today is to do my best to provide you with all the information I can given where we are at this point. I have been saying for some time now that we are living in an elevated threat environment and tragically, the Butler County assassination attempt is another example, *** particularly heinous and very public. One of what I've been talking about but it also reinforces our need at the FBI and our ongoing commitment to stay focused on the threats on the mission and on the people we do the work with and the people we do the work for every day all across this country. And indeed around the world, the men and women of the FBI are doing just that working around the clock to counter the threats we face just in the last year. For example, in California, the FBI and our partners targeted an organized crime syndicate responsible for trafficking fentaNYL meth and cocaine all across North America. We charged the Mexican based suppliers who brought the drugs into the United States. *** network of Canada based truck drivers who delivered the drugs and the distributors in the United States who spread the poison into our communities. Staying on threats emanating from the border. I have warned for some time now about the threat that foreign terrorists may seek to exploit our Southwest border or some other port of entry to advance *** plot against Americans. Just last month. For instance, the Bureau and our joint terrorism task forces worked with IC in multiple cities across the country. As several individuals with suspected international terrorist ties were arrested using ISIS immigration authorities leading up to those arrests, hundreds of FBI employees dedicated countless hours to understand the threat and identify additional individuals of concern. Now, the physical security of the border is of course not in the fbi's Lane. But as the threat has escalated, we're working with our partners in law enforcement and the intelligence community to find and stop foreign terrorists who would harm Americans and our interests.

Nearly two weeks after Donald Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s near assassination, the FBI confirmed Friday that it was indeed a bullet that struck the former president바카라 게임 웹사이트�s ear, moving to clear up conflicting accounts about what caused the former president바카라 게임 웹사이트�s injuries after a gunman opened fire at a Pennsylvania rally.Related video above: FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies to House committee on Trump assassination attempt바카라 게임 웹사이트�What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject바카라 게임 웹사이트�s rifle,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the agency said in a statement.The statement from the FBI marked the most definitive law enforcement account of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s injuries and followed ambiguous comments earlier in the week from Director Christopher Wray that appeared to cast doubt on whether Trump had actually been hit by a bullet.The comment drew fury from Trump and his allies and further stoked conspiracy theories that have flourished on both sides of the political aisle amid a dearth of information following the July 13 attack.Up until now, federal law enforcement agents involved in the investigation, including the FBI and Secret Service, had repeatedly refused to provide information about what caused Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s injuries. Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s campaign has also declined to release medical records from the hospital where he was first treated or to make the doctors there available for questions.Updates have instead come either from Trump himself or from Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s former White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, a staunch ally who now represents Texas in Congress. Though Jackson has been treating Trump since the night of the attack, he has come under considerable scrutiny and is not Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s primary care physician.The FBI바카라 게임 웹사이트�s apparent reluctance to immediately vouch for the former president바카라 게임 웹사이트�s version of events 바카라 게임 웹사이트� along with the ire he and some supporters have directed at the bureau in the shooting바카라 게임 웹사이트�s aftermath 바카라 게임 웹사이트� has also raised fresh tension between the Republican nominee and the nation바카라 게임 웹사이트�s premier federal law enforcement agency, which he could soon exert control over once again.Trump and his supporters have repeatedly accused federal law enforcement of being weaponized against him.Questions about the extent and nature of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s wound began immediately after the attack, as his campaign and law enforcement officials declined to answer questions about his condition or the treatment he received after Trump narrowly escaped death in an attempted assassination by a gunman with a high-powered rifle.Those questions have persisted despite photos showing the trace of a projectile speeding past Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s head, photographs that show Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s teleprompter glass intact after the shooting, and the account Trump himself gave in a Truth Social post within hours of the shooting saying he had been 바카라 게임 웹사이트�shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he wrote.Days later, in a speech accepting the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump described the horrific scene in detail, while wearing a large, white, gauze bandage over his right ear.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard, on my right ear. I said to myself, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet,바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said.바카라 게임 웹사이트�If I had not moved my head at that very last instant,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Trump said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the assassin바카라 게임 웹사이트�s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be here tonight.바카라 게임 웹사이트�But the first medical account of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s condition didn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t come until a full week after the shooting, when Jackson released his first letter last Saturday evening. In that letter, he said the bullet that struck Trump had 바카라 게임 웹사이트�produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear.바카라 게임 웹사이트� He also revealed that Trump had received a CT scan at the hospital.But federal law enforcement involved in the investigation, including the FBI and Secret Service, had declined to confirm that account. And Wray바카라 게임 웹사이트�s testimony offered apparently conflicting answers on the issue.바카라 게임 웹사이트�There바카라 게임 웹사이트�s some question about whether or not it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Wray testified, before he seemed to suggest it was indeed a bullet.바카라 게임 웹사이트�I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said.The following day, the FBI sought to clarify matters with a statement affirming that the shooting was an 바카라 게임 웹사이트�attempted assassination of former President Trump which resulted in his injury, as well as the death of a heroic father and the injuries of several other victims.바카라 게임 웹사이트� The FBI also said Thursday that its Shooting Reconstruction Team continues to examine bullet fragments and other evidence from the scene.Jackson, who has been treating the former president since the night of the July 13 shooting, told The Associated Press on Thursday that any suggestion Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s ear was bloodied by anything other than a bullet was reckless.바카라 게임 웹사이트�It was a bullet wound,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Jackson. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�You can바카라 게임 웹사이트�t make statements like that. It leads to all these conspiracy theories.바카라 게임 웹사이트�In his letter Friday, Jackson insisted 바카라 게임 웹사이트�there is absolutely no evidence바카라 게임 웹사이트� Trump was struck by anything other than a bullet and said it was 바카라 게임 웹사이트�wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else.바카라 게임 웹사이트�He wrote that at Butler Memorial Hospital, where the GOP nominee was rushed after the shooting, he was evaluated and treated for a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Gunshot Wound to the Right Ear.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�Having served as an Emergency Medicine physician for over 20 years in the United States Navy, including as a combat physician on the battlefield in Iraq,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he wrote, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I have treated many gunshot wounds in my career. Based on my direct observations of the injury, my relevant clinical background, and my significant experience evaluating and treating patients with similar wounds, I completely concur with the initial assessment and treatment provided by the doctors at nurses at Butler Memorial Hospital on the day of the shooting.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The FBI declined to comment on the Jackson letters.Asked if the campaign would release those hospital records, or allow the doctors who treated him there to speak, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung blasted the media for asking.바카라 게임 웹사이트�The media has no shame in engaging in disgusting conspiracy theories,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The facts are the facts, and to question an abhorrent assassination attempt that ultimately cost a life and injured two others is beyond the pale.바카라 게임 웹사이트�In emails last week, he told the AP that 바카라 게임 웹사이트�medical readouts바카라 게임 웹사이트� had already been provided.바카라 게임 웹사이트�It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s sad some people still don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t believe a shooting happened,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Cheung said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�even after one person was killed and others were injured.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Anyone who believes the conspiracies, he added, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�is either mentally deficient or willfully peddling falsehoods for political reasons.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a close Trump ally, also urged Wray to correct his testimony in a letter Friday to the FBI director, saying the fact Trump had been hit by a bullet 바카라 게임 웹사이트�was made clear in briefings my office received and should not be a point of contention.바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�As head of the FBI, you should not be creating confusion about such matters, as it further undercuts the agency바카라 게임 웹사이트�s credibility with millions of Americans,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he wrote.Trump also lashed out at Wray in a post on his Truth Social network, saying it was 바카라 게임 웹사이트�No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트�No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he wrote.On Friday, he called Wray바카라 게임 웹사이트�s comments 바카라 게임 웹사이트�so damaging to the Great People that work in the FBI.바카라 게임 웹사이트�Jackson has faced significant scrutiny over the years.After administering a physical to Trump in 2018, he drew headlines for suggesting that 바카라 게임 웹사이트�if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old.바카라 게임 웹사이트�He was reportedly demoted by the Navy after the Department of Defense inspector general released a scathing report on his conduct as a top White House physician that found Jackson had made 바카라 게임 웹사이트�sexual and denigrating바카라 게임 웹사이트� comments about female subordinates and took prescription-strength sleeping medication that prompted worries from his colleagues about his ability to provide proper medical care.Trump appointed Wray in 2017 to replace the fired James Comey as director of the FBI. But the then-president swiftly soured on his hire as the bureau continued its investigation into the Russian election interference.Trump flirted openly with the idea of firing Wray as his term drew to a close, and he lashed out anew after the FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to recover boxes of classified documents from his presidency.

Related video above: FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies to House committee on Trump assassination attempt

바카라 게임 웹사이트�What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject바카라 게임 웹사이트�s rifle,바카라 게임 웹사이트� the agency said in a statement.

The statement from the FBI marked the most definitive law enforcement account of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s injuries and followed ambiguous comments earlier in the week from Director Christopher Wray that appeared to cast doubt on whether Trump had actually been hit by a bullet.

The comment drew fury from Trump and his allies and further stoked conspiracy theories that have flourished on both sides of the political aisle amid a dearth of information following the July 13 attack.

Up until now, federal law enforcement agents involved in the investigation, including the FBI and Secret Service, had repeatedly refused to provide information about what caused Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s injuries. Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s campaign has also declined to release medical records from the hospital where he was first treated or to make the doctors there available for questions.

Updates have instead come either from Trump himself or from Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s former White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, a staunch ally who now represents Texas in Congress. Though Jackson has been treating Trump since the night of the attack, he has come under considerable scrutiny and is not Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s primary care physician.

The FBI바카라 게임 웹사이트�s apparent reluctance to immediately vouch for the former president바카라 게임 웹사이트�s version of events 바카라 게임 웹사이트� along with the ire he and some supporters have directed at the bureau in the shooting바카라 게임 웹사이트�s aftermath 바카라 게임 웹사이트� has also raised fresh tension between the Republican nominee and the nation바카라 게임 웹사이트�s premier federal law enforcement agency, which he could soon exert control over once again.

Trump and his supporters have repeatedly accused federal law enforcement of being weaponized against him.

Questions about the extent and nature of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s wound began immediately after the attack, as his campaign and law enforcement officials declined to answer questions about his condition or the treatment he received after Trump narrowly escaped death in an attempted assassination by a gunman with a high-powered rifle.

Those questions have persisted despite photos showing the trace of a projectile speeding past Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s head, photographs that show Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s teleprompter glass intact after the shooting, and the account Trump himself gave in a Truth Social post within hours of the shooting saying he had been 바카라 게임 웹사이트�shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

바카라 게임 웹사이트�I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he wrote.

Days later, in a speech accepting the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Trump described the horrific scene in detail, while wearing a large, white, gauze bandage over his right ear.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard, on my right ear. I said to myself, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet,바카라 게임 웹사이트�바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�If I had not moved my head at that very last instant,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Trump said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�the assassin바카라 게임 웹사이트�s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark, and I would not be here tonight.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

But the first medical account of Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s condition didn바카라 게임 웹사이트�t come until a full week after the shooting, when Jackson released his first letter last Saturday evening. In that letter, he said the bullet that struck Trump had 바카라 게임 웹사이트�produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear.바카라 게임 웹사이트� He also revealed that Trump had received a CT scan at the hospital.

But federal law enforcement involved in the investigation, including the FBI and Secret Service, had declined to confirm that account. And Wray바카라 게임 웹사이트�s testimony offered apparently conflicting answers on the issue.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�There바카라 게임 웹사이트�s some question about whether or not it바카라 게임 웹사이트�s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Wray testified, before he seemed to suggest it was indeed a bullet.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�I don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said.

The following day, the FBI sought to clarify matters with a statement affirming that the shooting was an 바카라 게임 웹사이트�attempted assassination of former President Trump which resulted in his injury, as well as the death of a heroic father and the injuries of several other victims.바카라 게임 웹사이트� The FBI also said Thursday that its Shooting Reconstruction Team continues to examine bullet fragments and other evidence from the scene.

Jackson, who has been treating the former president since the night of the July 13 shooting, told The Associated Press on Thursday that any suggestion Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트�s ear was bloodied by anything other than a bullet was reckless.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�It was a bullet wound,바카라 게임 웹사이트� said Jackson. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�You can바카라 게임 웹사이트�t make statements like that. It leads to all these conspiracy theories.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

In his letter Friday, Jackson insisted 바카라 게임 웹사이트�there is absolutely no evidence바카라 게임 웹사이트� Trump was struck by anything other than a bullet and said it was 바카라 게임 웹사이트�wrong and inappropriate to suggest anything else.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

He wrote that at Butler Memorial Hospital, where the GOP nominee was rushed after the shooting, he was evaluated and treated for a 바카라 게임 웹사이트�Gunshot Wound to the Right Ear.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

바카라 게임 웹사이트�Having served as an Emergency Medicine physician for over 20 years in the United States Navy, including as a combat physician on the battlefield in Iraq,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he wrote, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�I have treated many gunshot wounds in my career. Based on my direct observations of the injury, my relevant clinical background, and my significant experience evaluating and treating patients with similar wounds, I completely concur with the initial assessment and treatment provided by the doctors at nurses at Butler Memorial Hospital on the day of the shooting.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

The FBI declined to comment on the Jackson letters.

Asked if the campaign would release those hospital records, or allow the doctors who treated him there to speak, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung blasted the media for asking.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�The media has no shame in engaging in disgusting conspiracy theories,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트�The facts are the facts, and to question an abhorrent assassination attempt that ultimately cost a life and injured two others is beyond the pale.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

In emails last week, he told the AP that 바카라 게임 웹사이트�medical readouts바카라 게임 웹사이트� had already been provided.

바카라 게임 웹사이트�It바카라 게임 웹사이트�s sad some people still don바카라 게임 웹사이트�t believe a shooting happened,바카라 게임 웹사이트� Cheung said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�even after one person was killed and others were injured.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

Anyone who believes the conspiracies, he added, 바카라 게임 웹사이트�is either mentally deficient or willfully peddling falsehoods for political reasons.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a close Trump ally, also urged Wray to correct his testimony in , saying the fact Trump had been hit by a bullet 바카라 게임 웹사이트�was made clear in briefings my office received and should not be a point of contention.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

바카라 게임 웹사이트�As head of the FBI, you should not be creating confusion about such matters, as it further undercuts the agency바카라 게임 웹사이트�s credibility with millions of Americans,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he wrote.

Trump also lashed out at Wray in a post on his Truth Social network, saying it was 바카라 게임 웹사이트�No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!바카라 게임 웹사이트�

바카라 게임 웹사이트�No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel,바카라 게임 웹사이트� he wrote.

On Friday, he called Wray바카라 게임 웹사이트�s comments 바카라 게임 웹사이트�so damaging to the Great People that work in the FBI.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

Jackson has faced significant scrutiny over the years.

After administering a physical to Trump in 2018, he drew headlines for suggesting that 바카라 게임 웹사이트�if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old.바카라 게임 웹사이트�

He was reportedly demoted by the Navy after the Department of Defense inspector general released a scathing report on his conduct as a top White House physician that found Jackson had made 바카라 게임 웹사이트�sexual and denigrating바카라 게임 웹사이트� comments about female subordinates and took prescription-strength sleeping medication that prompted worries from his colleagues about his ability to provide proper medical care.

Trump appointed Wray in 2017 to replace the fired James Comey as director of the FBI. But the then-president swiftly soured on his hire as the bureau continued its investigation into the Russian election interference.

Trump flirted openly with the idea of firing Wray as his term drew to a close, and he lashed out anew after the FBI executed a search warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to recover boxes of classified documents from his presidency.

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