Trump says he felt bullet ‘ripping through the skin’ of his ear in first comments since rally shooting
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Donald Trump described in graphic detail the moment he was shot through the ear in his first comments following an attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
“I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” the former president said in a post on Truth Social.
“Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening,” he added.
Trump thanked the Secret Service and law enforcement for their response to the shooting and offered condolences to the family of a rally-goer who was killed.
“It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead,” he said in the post.
The Secret Service said in a statement that the gunman was killed following the apparent assassination attempt during the campaign rally in Pennsylvania, where a bloodied Trump was rushed from the stage after several shots were fired into the crowd. One rally attendee was killed and two other spectators were injured, it added in the statement.
Law enforcement officials are investigating the incident as an assassination attempt.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign said that he is “fine” and was “checked out a local medical facility.”
President Joe Biden spoke briefly from a police station in Delaware following the attack.
“Look, there’s no place in America for this kind of violence. It’s sick. It’s sick. It’s one of the reasons why we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening,” he said, adding that he planned to speak to Trump.
“We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this. And so I want to thank the Secret Service and all the agencies, including the state agencies, that have engaged in making sure that the people who and we have more detail to come relative to other injury, other people may be injured in the audience.”
