Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, former President Donald Trump’s White House physician, revealed that his nephew was “hit in the neck” by a bullet at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“They heard the shots and everybody fell to the ground,” Jackson told Sean Hannity on Fox News Saturday night. “And I don’t know if you have the picture or not, but he was grazed in the neck. A bullet went through his neck, cut his neck and he was bleeding.”
Jackson said he helped his sister-in-law and nephew get into the “friends and family cell” at the Trump rally on Saturday night, where they were in the stands behind the president when the assassination attempt took place.
The former White House physician said his sister-in-law took his nephew to the emergency room after the shooting and that they encountered the slain Trump supporter.
“When they got to the triage tent, while they were there, there was another member of the crowd, unfortunately, he was also in the triage tent. He was on a stretcher in the tent and had a severe wound, a severe wound to his head that was dead,” Jackson said.
Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician under former President Donald Trump, revealed that his nephew was “hit in the neck” by a bullet during the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania
According to a statement from the Secret Service on Saturday, one attendee at the rally was killed by the gunman, while two others were wounded.
Anna West, a 40-year-old artist from Pittsburgh, told DailyMail.com that another injured Trump supporter was rushed from the protest site.
The suspected shooter is dead.
On Saturday evening at around 6:15 p.m., shots were fired at the former president while he was delivering his speech.
“I was hit by a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” he later told Truth Social. “I knew right away something was wrong because I heard a whooshing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through my skin.”
“There was a lot of blood loss, so that’s when I realized what was going on,” the ex-president added.
Former President Donald Trump is surrounded by Secret Service agents after a bullet hit his ear during an attempted assassination on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania
Trump was taken to Butler Memorial Hospital but has since been released.
President Joe Biden reached Trump on the phone after he made an initial statement to the press near his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Biden traveled back to the White House late Saturday night.
The former president was scheduled to hold a rally in western Pennsylvania before traveling to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday to kick off the Republican National Convention, where he will accept the GOP presidential nomination for the third time.
The Republican National Committee and Trump’s campaign said Saturday that the convention in Milwaukee will go on as planned.