A week after the assassination attempt on the former president, his doctor released the first medical update on Saturday.
A week after an assassination attempt left former President Donald Trump with a bullet wound to his right ear, former presidential physician Ronny Jackson said that Trump is « doing well » and « recovering as expected » in the first official doctor’s note released since the incident.
Last Saturday, Trump, the GOP presidential nominee as of Monday, was struck by a bullet at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in what the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investing as an assassination attempt. At the Republican National Convention (RNC) this week, Trump wore a bandage on his right ear. Several attendees at the convention also wore fake bandages on their ears in solidarity.
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper. One rally attendee, 50-year-old former firefighter Corey Comperatore, was killed in the shooting and two more were seriously injured, according to the Secret Service. They were reported to be in stable condition as of Monday.
