The FBI confirmed that former President Donald Trump was “struck” by a “bullet” at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after FBI Director Christopher Wray downplayed the attempt on Trump's life.
To no one's surprise, Wray and the rest of the bureaucratic state, in alignment with Democrats, are trying to downplay the fact that Trump was nearly killed by an assassin. Democrats are desperate to regain the "moral" high ground and suggesting that Trump was hit by shrapnel and not a bullet is one of the ways in which they are downplaying the event.
Wray told lawmakers that, "With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear."
"With respect" looks so damning after the FBI issued a statement following Wray's comment saying, "What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle."
There was never a question about if Trump had been struck but Wray was clearly stoking speculation and feeding information that Democrat lawmakers will no doubt bring up in the future.
Not long after Wray gave his misleading statement to lawmakers, media outlets were already running with the fake story.
Newsweek posted an article titled “Donald Trump Might Not Have Been Shot After All." After intense backlash, Newsweek edited the title adding, "FBI Director Says."
However, it's likely that the damage has already been done and leftists desperate to downplay Trump's shooting have the ammunition they need to argue that Trump wasn't shot because the director of the FBI said so.
After the FBI issued a clarifying statement debunking Wray's claim, Trump reacted on Truth Social saying, "I assume that’s the best apology that we’ll get from Director Wray, but it is fully accepted."
One can only imagine the outrage that would have ensued had the victim in this scenario been a Democrat president.
There are still many questions about what exactly happened on that fateful day but there is no question that Trump was millimeters from dying. What we still don't know is why that shooting happened in the first place.
Downplaying Trump's shooting serves two purposes; as mentioned before Democrats want to reclaim the "moral" high ground but the deep state clearly wants Americans to not look too deeply into this shooting.
Already information has come out that Trump's shooter was allowed to fly a drone over the rally while the Secret Service didn't deploy similar technology. Furthermore, no agents were posted on the shooter's position because "the roof was sloped."
There is much more to this story and already many conservatives suspect that Trump's shooter was not working alone. The bizarre behavior of federal agencies further implies that there is more to this story that they don't want regular Americans investigating.
