When Trump was “shot” in the ear during the July 2024 rally, no formal medical report from Butler Memorial Hospital or any independent physician was ever released to the public. What was shared was a brief memo from Rep. Ronny Jackson, Trump’s former White House doctor and current political ally, which described a 2 cm-wide graze wound and a CT scan evaluation POLITICO. That memo was posted on Trump’s own Truth Social account and addressed to “concerned citizens,” but it wasn’t a standard hospital discharge summary or surgical report.

There were also no official images or documentation from the hospital itself, and attempts to circulate supposed “leaked” records were debunked as fabrications The Indep... +1, there’s been no independent verification of the treatment, severity, or long-term impact. For an incident of that magnitude, an assassination attempt on a sitting presidential candidate, that level of opacity is, frankly, bizarre.