Olivia Nuzzi, a New York Times Magazine reporter, claims she was allowed to see Donald Trump’s newly shot ear during an interview and has given her judgment, finding it ‘normal, wonderful, and fine’.
On July 13, a 20-year-old gunman attempted to assassinate the former president at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, but only grazed Trump’s ear, leaving it bleeding.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired eight shots into the crowd, wounding Trump in the ear and three rallygoers, one of whom died.
The shooter was taken down by a counter-sniper squad from the Secret Service. They said the male shooter opened fire from an elevated location outside the demonstration grounds before being killed. The shooting also gravely injured two more people.
Nuzzi profiled Trump in Florida just a few weeks after the incident, but he couldn’t resist discussing the health of Trump’s ear.
Trump tapped the spot where he was shot, which led Nuzzi to write: “An ear had never appeared to have gone through less.”
“The particular spot that he identified with his tap was pristine. I scanned carefully the rest of the terrain. It looked normal and incredible and fine”, she added.
She claimed to have seen what seemed to be a little bullet hole in Trump’s ear.
“Except there, on the tiniest patch of this tiny sculpture of skin, a minor distortion that resembled not a crucifixion wound but the distant aftermath of a sunburn.”
Trump himself speaking about the wound, said; “It’s a railroad track. They didn’t need a stitch. You know, it’s funny. Usually, something like that would be considered a surreal experience, where you sort of don’t realize it, and yet there was no surrealism in this case,” he told Nuzzi.
“I felt immediately that I got hit by a bullet. I also knew it was my ear. It’s amazing. And the ear, as you know, is a big bleeder.”
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