His former White House physician provides a report on his injury

Ronnie Jackson, Donald Trump’s former White House physician, has released a statement on the former president’s health after he was shot in the ear during a campaign rally.

Footage of Donald Trump’s ear injury during a campaign rally a week ago left a two-centimeter-deep gash that is healing, Jackson, his former White House doctor, said in a rare health update from the event.

On Saturday, July 20, Ronnie Jackson wrote in a side note posted on his official X account that “the bullet passed less than a centimeter from the head and hit the top of the right ear.”

“There was a wound 2 cm wide, which extended to the surface of the ear cartilage. Initially there was significant bleeding, followed by swelling of the whole ear. Upper part of the ear,” says the now former doctor. Elected to the hard right in the House of Representatives. He says the swelling has gone down and the wound is starting to “heal properly.”

Two of the spectators were injured

The former White House physician, in 2018, congratulated Donald Trump and his “great genes” on his physical strength with many high praises, promising that “if he had had a healthy diet in the last 20 years, he could live to be 200 years old.” .

After this episode, Donald Trump appointed him to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, but Ronnie Jackson has had to continue to deny allegations that he inappropriately distributed drugs and was sometimes drunk on the job.

A self-propelled gunman killed one in the audience and wounded two others, Donald Trump was ejected from the crowd, his ear bleeding and his fist raised, images that have been playing in the loop for a week that have shocked the presidential campaign. .

Dubbed this week by the entire Republican family during the nominating convention, the former president of the United States will hold his first campaign rally since being victimized in the assassination attempt in Michigan on Saturday. The shooter, a 20-year-old man whose motives are unclear, was killed immediately after the shooting.