Trump refuses to release detailed medical records after assassination attempt despite promising to

After being shot in the right ear at a Butler, PA rally on July 13, Trump promised to release medical records but then refused. For a week after the shooting, no medical information was released. Only Rep. Ronny Jackson (Trump's former White House physician) provided limited statements, describing the wound as '2 cm wide' and stating the bullet came 'less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head.' Trump's campaign spokesperson 'blasted the media' for requesting hospital records and detailed treatment information. The FBI confirmed a bullet struck his ear after initial confusion about bullet versus shrapnel. Despite the major health event—a gunshot wound—Trump maintained his lifelong pattern of medical obfuscation, refusing transparency even when it would have been politically advantageous to document the severity of an assassination attempt. The refusal continued his decades-long resistance to detailed medical disclosure.

"Bullet came less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head." — Rep. Ronny Jackson statement about Trump's ear wound, July 2024