Donald Trump health update: Here are precautions ex-prez took after assassination attempt
Donald Trump’s right ear was injured and visuals showed blood streaming down his face..
Former president Donald Trump went through a precautionary CT scan following the assassination attempt on him on Saturday. Several shots were fired at Trump during his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump injured his right ear and visuals were captured of blood streaming from his right ear and smeared across his face. He was immediately rushed to a hospital for necessary medical aid.
Trump’s health updates after assassination attempt
As reported by CNN, Trump went through a precautionary CT scan after the assassination attempt to examine any internal or missed injuries. The results of the CT scan gave a green light for the ex-president’s health. No further injuries or traumas on Trump have been reported as of yet.
In his first statement since the shooting at the rally, he said, “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. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening,” he said after he was immediately rushed to a hospital in the Pittsburgh area as reported by the New York Post.
He is currently recovering from his injuries in his home in New Jersey and will travel to Milwaukee as he had previously planned.
Trump rewrites his speech after assassination attempt
Trump is scheduled to attend the Republic National Convention in Milwaukee and he has no plans to reschedule after the fatal shooting on Saturday. He is supposed to give a speech on Thursday at the Convention after he’s formally nominated. Referring to the speech Trumpp said, “Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now. This is a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together. The speech will be a lot different, a lot different than it would’ve been two days ago,” as reported by CNN.
Trump has given no official info about his medical care for days since an assassination attempt
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump appears during the Republican National Convention Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives during the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, Tuesday, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, raises his arms while on stage during the Republican National Convention Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Four days after a gunman’s attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, the public is still in the dark over the extent of his injuries, what treatment the Republican presidential nominee received in the hospital, and whether there may be any long-term effects on his health.
Trump’s campaign has refused to discuss his condition, release a medical report or records, or make the doctors who treated him available, leaving information to dribble out from Trump, his friends and family.
The first word on Trump’s condition came about half an hour after shots rang out and Trump dropped to the ground after reaching for his ear and then pumped his fist defiantly to the crowd with blood streaming down his face. The campaign issued a statement saying he was “fine” and “being checked out at a local medical facility.”
It wasn’t until 8:42 p.m., however, that Trump told the public he had been struck by a bullet as opposed to shrapnel or debris. In a post on his social media network, Trump wrote that he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part” of his 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,” he wrote.
Presidents and major-party candidates have long had to balance their right to doctor-patient confidentiality with the public’s expectations that they demonstrate they are healthy enough to serve, particularly when questions arise about their readiness. Trump, for example, has long pressed President Joe Biden to take a cognitive test as the Democrat faces doubts after his stumbling performance in last month’s debate.
After a would-be assassin shot and gravely wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the Washington, D.C., hospital where he was treated gave regular, detailed public updates about his condition and treatment.
Trump has appeared at the Republican National Convention the past three days with a bandage over his right ear. But there has been no further word since Saturday from Trump’s campaign or other officials on his condition or treatment.
Instead, it has been allies and family members sharing news.
Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, who served as Trump’s White House doctor and traveled to be with him after the shooting, said in a podcast interview Monday that Trump was missing part of his ear — “a little bit at the top” — but that the wound would heal.
“He was lucky,” Jackson said on “The Benny Show,” a conservative podcast hosted by Benny Johnson. ”It was far enough away from his head that there was no concussive effects from the bullet. And it just took the top of his ear off, a little bit of the top of his ear off as it passed through.”
He said that the area would need to be treated with care to avoid further bleeding — “It’s not like a clean laceration like you would have with a knife or a blade, it’s a bullet track going by,” he said — but that Trump is “not going to need anything to be done with it. It’s going to be fine.”
The former president’s son Eric Trump said in an interview with CBS on Wednesday that his father had had “no stitches but certainly a nice flesh wound.”
The lack of information continues a pattern for Trump, who has released minimal medical information throughout his political career.
When he first ran in 2016, Trump declined to release full medical records, and instead released a note from his doctor that declared Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Dr. Harold Bornstein later revealed that the glowing, four-paragraph assessment was written in 5 minutes as a car sent by Trump to collect it waited outside.
