New details about Donald Trump’s injuries emerge after he was rushed to hospital following attempted assassination

A year after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, more information has come out about the injuries he suffered. On July 13, 2024, Trump was giving a speech at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, when a man named Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at him from a rooftop about 100 yards away.

Crooks, who was 20 years old, fired eight bullets. One person in the crowd was killed, and two others were badly hurt. During the shooting, Trump grabbed his ear and ducked behind the podium. Secret Service agents quickly rushed to protect him, and eventually, they shot and killed the gunman.

Photos of Trump just after the shooting showed his face and ear covered in blood. Despite the chaos, he raised his fist in the air, which quickly went viral and became a powerful image shared around the world.

The event became a major moment in Trump’s 2024 campaign. His support grew stronger after the incident, with even well-known tech leaders like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg praising him. Zuckerberg commented that Trump’s fist pump after being shot was “one of the most badass things” he had ever seen.

That day also marked a shift in Trump’s relationship with Elon Musk. Musk, who had been distant from Trump, announced his full support for him on social media and wished him a fast recovery.

Now, a new book reveals what happened after Trump was taken to the hospital. At the time, Trump was running for a second term as president. He was bleeding so much that his top aides feared he had been shot multiple times.

The book, titled 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America*, includes a scene from the hospital. Trump was still in his suit, sitting up in bed with a bandage over his ear. Blood had soaked everything. In an interview for the book, Trump joked about how bad it looked, saying there was so much blood that people thought he had been hit by four or five bullets.

His close aides Susie Wiles, Steven Cheung, and Dan Scavino were shocked at first but realized he wasn’t as badly hurt as they thought when he began cracking jokes in the hospital room.

In the end, Trump had only one gunshot wound to his right ear and was able to leave the hospital the same day. Just two days later, he appeared in public at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, wearing a large bandage on his ear.