https://x.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1833476085998063741

Here it is, Mel. Ze truth. The assassination attempt could of been yet
another hoax:

Reporter: What I Learned When Trump Let Me Inspect His Ear

Donald Trump’s ear that was injured in July’s assassination attempt
appears to be just fine after all—at least according to a reporter who
had an unusually intimate encounter with it.

New York Magazine reported Monday that, in a sit-down interview at
Mar-a-Lago, the journalist Olivia Nuzzi got a very detailed look at
Trump’s right ear—the one he infamously bandaged up for the RNC—and declared that it appeared to be “normal” and “fine.”

“An ear had never appeared to have gone through less,” wrote Nuzzi.

Nuzzi visited Trump’s Florida estate in early August. It had been less
than a month since he nearly escaped death at his Pennsylvania rally on
July 13.

Like many have in recent weeks, Nuzzi appeared to fixate on Trump’s
injured ear and marveled at how—after a bullet buzzed right past it,
leaving it bleeding—it was able to heal so quickly. She asked Trump
about his injury, which left his face and ear bloodied on stage, and she reported that he responded by tapping the spot allegedly struck by a
bullet fired at him by Thomas Matthew Crooks.

“The particular spot that he identified with his tap was pristine,”
Nuzzi wrote. “I scanned carefully the rest of the terrain. It looked
normal and incredible and fine.”

Nuzzi later added: “An ear had never appeared to have gone through less. Except there, on the tiniest patch of this tiny sculpture of skin, a
minor distortion that resembled not a crucifixion wound but the distant aftermath of a sunburn.”

A spokesperson for Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to a
request for comment on New York Magazine’s report.

Ron Filipkowski, the editor of MeidasTouch News and a regular Daily
Beast contributor, has been among the most prominent names scrutinizing
the Trump campaign’s claims that the former president was directly
struck by a bullet fired by Crooks.

Filipkowski on Sunday shared a recent photo of Trump’s ear, which
appeared fully healed, next to the still-disfigured ear of Evander
Holyfield, who infamously had the top portion of his ear bitten off by
Mike Tyson in 1997 and had to have it surgically re-attached.

Asked about his injury on Aug. 8, Trump said that a bullet struck “the lobe” and that he’d already fully recovered because he is a “fast healer.”

Trump was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital after the shooting, where he
asked a doctor why he was bleeding so much, New York Magazine reported.
Trump said the doctor told him it was because of the vascular properties
of his cartilage.

Ronny Jackson, the White House physician for Barack Obama and Trump,
told the magazine that Trump’s ear didn’t require stitches. He said the wound was “kind of a half-moon shape” and that the bullet had “scooped” a small amount of “skin and fat” off the top of the ear.

Jackson surrendered most of his medical privileges in 2022 after a
report from the Pentagon determined he acted inappropriately as a White
House physician. Jackson, 57, was demoted from rear admiral to captain,
and he now represents a conservative area of Texas—that hugs the
northwestern state line with Oklahoma—in Congress.

Jackson told New York Magazine that Trump’s ear bandage was his idea.

“I’m an emergency medical physician,” he said. “I’m not a nurse. I did
the best I could.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-magazine-reporter-olivia-nuzzi-what-i-learned-when-trump-let-me-inspect-his-ear

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