Thomas Crooks, 20, tried to assassinate the former president at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July, where a bullet appeared to narrowly miss his head and graze his ear.
Donald Trump could have been hit by shrapnel rather than a bullet during his attempted assassination, the director of the FBI has suggested.
Thomas Crooks, 20, tried to assassinate the former president at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 13 July.
Mr Trump dropped to the floor after a bullet appeared to narrowly miss his head and graze his ear when the gunman opened fire – killing one person and wounding two others.
But at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, FBI director Christopher Wray suggested it was unclear whether he was hit by a bullet or something else.
“There’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear”, he said.
“As I sit here right now, I don’t know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else.”
The FBI in a statement on Thursday said it had been “consistent and clear that the shooting was an attempted assassination”.
A Trump campaign spokesperson, Jason Miller, called the idea that Trump was not hit by a bullet a “conspiracy”, adding an expletive.
