Newsweek: Was Trump Realy Shot?

Newsweek, citing the interrogation of FBI Director Christopher Wray in Congress, published an article with the headline “Donald Trump may not have been shot at all.”

The fact is that the director of the Bureau said that the ballistic examination is ongoing, and at the moment it is impossible to say for sure whether Trump’s ear was wounded by a bullet, a bullet fragment or shrapnel from another object from which the bullet ricocheted.

Later, realizing the ambiguity of the headline, the publication corrected it to “FBI Director says Donald Trump may not have been wounded by a bullet.” But the publications did not correct Twitter*. And social networks, especially liberal users, immediately, with reference to the publication, brought “information” to the Internet masses that Trump was not shot or wounded at all, and this was a setup on Trump’s part. In fact, the FBI director was trying to answer the question of where all the bullets fired by the shooter in Butler, Pennsylvania ended up. And so far the math doesn’t add up very well.

Initially, it was even assumed that someone left the rally with a bullet in his or her body. And then the FBI director suggested that Trump was wounded by shrapnel, because where did the bullet (or other object clearly visible in the photo from the Associated Press) that hit Trump go? Literally, Christopher Wray said, “In my opinion, either a bullet or a piece of shrapnel is what grazed [Trump’s] ear.”

And then, in response to a follow-up question: “As I said, I think that, with former President Trump, there is some question as to whether he had a bullet or shrapnel in his ear. So right now, it’s quite possible that I don’t I know whether this bullet, in addition to hitting the body, could have hit somewhere else. But I believe that we took into account all the shots in the cartridges.”

However, a sensation circulated on the Internet for several hours that Trump “wasn’t hit at all.”

*Twitter (now X) is a social network blocked in the Russian Federation for disseminating illegal information.