In the days following the RNC and the assassination attempt on GOP nominee Donald Trump, the former president's once-appointed White House doctor-turned member of Congress, Rep. Ronny Jackson, has released an assessment on Trump's well-being.
In a letter released on Saturday, addressed to the "concerned citizens of the United States," Rep. Jackson said he has been with Trump since the evening of the assassination attempt when the former president swiftly returned to his home in Bedminster, N.J. after the shooting at the Pennsylvania rally.
Rep. Jackson said in the statement, "The bullet passed, coming less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear. The bullet track produced a 2 cm wide wound that extended down to the cartilaginous surface of the ear. There was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear."
The assessment said, "The swelling has since resolved, and the wound is beginning to granulate and heal properly. Based on the highly vascular nature of the ear, there is still intermittent bleeding requiring a dressing to be in place. Given the broad and blunt nature of the wound itself, no sutures were required."
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Rep. Jackson said Trump was first treated by medical staff at a hospital in Pennsylvania who performed a CT scan of the former president's head before he returned to Bedminster where Rep. Jackson met with him. Rep. Jackson is not currently Trump's primary care physician, and he said Trump would follow up with his doctor as directed by the medical staff who initially treated Trump after the shooting.
Rep. Jackson indicated he would travel with Trump to attend a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Saturday evening, and said he would "remain by his side throughout the weekend. Rep. Jackson said he will return to Washington on Monday, before heading home to Amarillo, Texas.
Trump also released the letter from Rep. Jackson on his Truth Social platform.
Earlier in the week while speaking with Scripps News, the former president's son Eric Trump said the security failure at the Pennsylvania rally "reeks of incompetence."
Trump's son criticized the Secret Service saying "I don't have, necessarily, confidence in the agency as a whole right now. I think they need to do some inward reflection ... at the top of that organization, I think they need to do some major self-reflection because something like that can never happen again."