Trump Ear Healing Is Consistent With Bullet Grazing Skin, Ballistics Expert Says

Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet throughout the assassination try … not less than that is what a ballistic skilled gleans from the best way the previous president’s injured ear is therapeutic.

Leonard Romero — a forensic firearms examiner who’s labored alongside the LAPD and several other different regulation enforcement businesses on this subject — tells TMZ … Trump’s ear therapeutic so rapidly is not proof he wasn’t hit (as some have urged), however quite the opposite … it is truly according to a graze from a bullet, versus a extra direct affect.

The best way Leonard, explains it … a graze solely impacts the pores and skin’s floor — it is extra like a scrape or a scratch, and does not trigger heavy harm, even when the bullet is from an AR-15 assault rifle, as was the case right here.

Trump was bleeding from the ear after Thomas Matthew Crooks squeezed off photographs at him throughout his July 13 rally in Pennsylvania … then he wore a large bandage to the following RNC, the place he accepted the GOP presidential nomination, and has since ditched the bandage altogether … and his ear has no main scarring viewable to the bare eye.

FBI director Christopher Wray at first stated there was some query whether or not or not Trump was struck by a bullet … however the FBI in the end backtracked and stated, “What struck former President Trump within the ear was a bullet, whether or not entire or fragmented into smaller items, fired from the deceased topic’s rifle.”

Leonard says video from the taking pictures offers no indication Trump was grazed by a bullet fragment … as an alternative, he tells us he is assured the bullet grazed Trump’s ear earlier than hitting anything … and does not consider Trump was minimize by damaged glass from a teleprompter.

In fact, we might heard from somebody plugged into the Secret Service that he presumably was minimize by glass — or another materials that ricocheted off the bullet — however Romero does not appear to agree.

In any case — it seems like Trump acquired tremendous fortunate right here … Leonard says a .223 caliber bullet just like the one the shooter used causes devastating wounds on direct affect.

Once more, Trump’s ear remains to be intact and never scarred or mangled … which backs up what Leonard’s saying right here.