Appearing on Fox News Channel on Friday, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), a former White House physician, blasted FBI Director Christopher Wray, who appeared on Capitol Hill the previous day and questioned whether a bullet actually struck former President Donald Trump in the assassination attempt earlier this month.
Jackson called Wray’s efforts “politically motivated” and suggested that he and the so-called Washington establishment felt threatened by what was happening in US politics at the time.
“Congressman, welcome. And you are also a physician, according to three former U.S. presidents. What do you make of this fact? The FBI director has said a lot of things, that he can’t say it’s still an ongoing investigation, but he’s been very clear on this. He said he doesn’t know if it was shrapnel or if it was a bullet. It seems to me like it was part of a bullet before it broke up. I’m not sure that’s a really important distinction to make when they’re very clear that this was an assassination attempt and there were bullets flying.
“Exactly, Martha,” Jackson responded. “I think it’s completely inappropriate. Like I said, for someone in the position of the FBI director to make a statement like that at this stage, certainly someone who’s overseeing an investigation into an assassination attempt, I think his comments are politically motivated, frankly. I think the entire Washington, D.C. establishment, the Washington, D.C. establishment, and I include the FBI director in that category, feel completely threatened by what’s going on. President Trump is an icon of America, and he is an icon to a lot of people who didn’t think that way before this happened.”
“After the assassination attempt, we all saw a former president, shot in the head, covered in blood, stand up, raise his fist in defiance,” he continued. “And now there are thousands, tens of thousands of people who were inspired by President Trump’s actions when this happened, who see him as a strong leader and are motivated to vote for him. And I think that’s intimidating to a lot of people in Washington, including perhaps the director of the FBI. And I said to point that out because I think it’s politically motivated and I think it’s inappropriate.”
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