The FBI has reportedly confirmed former President Donald Trump was indeed shot by a bullet, ending speculation about what exactly bloodied Trump’s ear.
The agency told Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich in a statement on Friday afternoon, “What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the statement read. The statement was also posted by Fox’s Bret Baier.
The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Beast.
The controversy began on Wednesday when FBI director Christopher Wray told Congress that, “There is some question about whether or not it was a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.” Wray testified: “So, it is conceivable, as I sit here right now, I don’t know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else.”
The former president posted on his Truth social account moments after the Fox report Friday. “I assume that’s the best apology that we’ll get from Director Wray, but it is fully accepted,” the former president wrote, alongside an image of the statement attached.
The announcement comes after Trump was spotted for the first time without his signature ear bandage during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier on Friday.
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