Trump campaign provides new details on his ear wound and treatment

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is doing well and required no stitches after a gunshot at his campaign rally last weekend grazed his ear, his former White House doctor said in a memo released Saturday by Trump’s campaign.

The bullet passed less than a quarter inch from the former president’s head, causing a two-centimeter-wide wound and “significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear,” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) said in a letter issued Saturday. But “given the broad and blunt nature of the wound itself, no sutures were required,” Jackson wrote in a public memo.

Jackson added the wound is healing properly, though there is still intermittent bleeding.

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