MILWAUKEE (AP) – Four days later attempted murder BEFORE President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, the public is still in the dark about the extent of his injuries, the treatment the Republican presidential candidate received at the hospital, and whether there may be any lasting effects. in his health.
Trump’s campaign has refused to discuss his condition, release medical reports or records, or make the doctor who treated him available, allowing information to leak from Trump, his friends and his family.
The first word on Trump’s condition came about half an hour after the shots rang out and Trump fell to the ground after clutching his ear and then pumping his fists into the crowd with the blood was pouring down his face. The campaign released a statement saying he was "doing well" and was being "checked out at a local hospital."
"More details will be forthcoming," the spokesperson said.
But it wasn’t until 8:42pm that Trump told the crowd that he was hit by a bullet as opposed to shrapnel or shrapnel. In a post on the social network, Trump wrote that he was "shot by a bullet that pierced the upper part" of his right ear.
"I immediately knew something was wrong when I heard a pop, a shot, and immediately felt the bullet go through my skin," he wrote.
Presidents and major-party candidates have long had to balance the privacy rights of doctors and patients with the public’s expectation that they are healthy enough to serve, especially when questions are raised about his determination. Trump, for example, has forced President Joe Biden to take a psychological test as Democrats face uncertainty after his debacle in last month’s debate.
"It’s a relief to say that it’s strange that the presidential candidate was injured in an assassination attempt and no medical report was released to determine his evaluation and the extent of his injuries," Jonathan Reiner, professor of medicine. and surgery at The George Washington University, wrote on the website X, formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday.
After President Ronald Reagan was shot and critically wounded in 1981, the Washington, DC hospital where he was treated provided regular updates on his condition and treatment.
Trump has appeared at the Republican National Convention for the past three days with a headband in his right ear. But there was no word as of Saturday from the Trump campaign or other officials about his condition or treatment.
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Instead, friends and family shared information.
The Rep. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, who was Trump’s White House doctor and traveled with him after the shooting, said in a podcast interview Monday that part of his ear was missing. Trump — "a little at the top" — but the wound will heal.
"He’s lucky," Jackson said on "The Benny Show," a conservative podcast hosted by Benny Johnson. “His head was far away so the bullet didn’t affect him. And he just took off the tops of his ears, just took off the tops of his ears as he passed by."
He said the area needs to be treated carefully to prevent further bleeding — "It’s not like a clean cut like you’d have with a knife or a flame, it’s a path of a bullet going through," he said — but Trump is " Nothing needs to be done about it. It will be fine.”
The former president’s son Eric Trump said in an interview with CBS on Wednesday that his father "didn’t have stitches but it was definitely a flesh wound."
Lack of information continues to be a pattern for Trump, who has released minimal medical information throughout his political career.
When he first ran in 2016, Trump refused to release his full medical records, instead released a note from his doctor who declared that Trump would be "the healthiest person ever elected president."
It was announced by Dr. Harold Bornstein later said the glowing assessment was written in 5 minutes and four paragraphs as Trump’s pickup truck waited outside.
Jackson, after his physical handling of Trump in 2018, made headlines for praising the then-president’s "very good genes" and suggesting that "if you have food he has been healthy for the last 20 years, he could be 200 years old.”
When Trump contracted the coronavirus in the middle of his 2020 re-election campaign, his doctors and aides. tried to downplay the severity of his condition and kept the information about his illness and the details of his treatment.
Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, wrote in his book that Trump’s blood oxygen level had dropped to "very low" and there were concerns that Trump would not be able to walk on his own. he waited longer to be taken to Walter. Reed for treatment.
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