Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “recovering well” after the bullet fired by attempted assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks “entered his head less than a quarter-inch,” former White House physician and current Congressman Ronny Jackson said in a statement Saturday.
“As reported and witnessed around the world, he was shot through his right ear with a high-powered rifle used by the would-be assassin,” Rep. Jackson (R-Texas) wrote.
Jackson said he met with Trump at the former president’s Bedminster, New Jersey, home on the night of the shooting and has seen him daily since then.
“The bullet wound inflicted a two-centimeter wound down to the cartilage surface of the ear,” Jackson wrote. “There was initially considerable bleeding, and then the entire upper part of the ear became noticeably swollen.”
Jackson said the swelling had subsided and expressed gratitude to the medical staff who first treated Trump at Butler Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania.
