One day after FBI Director Christopher Wray left open the possibility that a gunman’s bullet may not have struck former President Donald Trump, a liberal news outlet is picking up the idea and running with it.

Under the banner headline “Donald Trump Might Not Have Been Shot After All,” Newsweek national correspondent Khaleda Rahman reviews Wray’s comments on Wednesday before a House oversight hearing where he provided an update on the FBI’s investigation into the Secret Service’s failure to protect President Trump from a 20-year-old deranged gunman. In his remarks, the Bureau chief said it remains unclear whether Trump was struck in the right ear with a round from the gunman’s AR-15 rifle or injured by shrapnel, possibly from a teleprompter screen that was also struck. Following the shooting Trump told his followers on Truth Social that he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”

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One week after the near-death experience, Trump doctor Ronny Jackson released a statement saying the former president was shot with a rifle round “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.” Trump is “doing well, and he is recovering as expected,” he added. But conflicting opinions be damned, Newsweek editors must have thought, as they ran with a far-left rumor that President Trump is embellishing the shooting to garner sympathy and inflated support in the polls.

“To the best of your understanding, how close did the assassin’s bullet come to killing President Donald Trump?” California Rep. Kevin Kiley asked Wray, who replied that his understanding of the scenario was that it could have been either a bullet or shrapnel “is what grazed [Trump’s] ear.”

In between grillings by his colleagues, Oversight Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked the director, “We obviously know that Mr. Comperatore lost his life…two other rallygoers were injured, seriously injured, and then the one that hit President Trump. Does that account for…were some of these individuals hit multiple times?” Jordan asked. “Where did all eight bullets go, is I guess my question.”

Wray did not have the answer but stated, “As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear. So it’s conceivable, as I sit here right now, I don’t know whether that bullet in addition to, you know, causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else. But I believe we’ve accounted for all of the shots in the cartridges.”

Promising to “work tirelessly to get to the bottom of what happened,” Wray might fear for his job after watching Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resign following the catastrophic security failure. On Wednesday he confirmed for lawmakers that the 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks previously canvassed the Pennsylvania rally site using a drone and had laced his car with explosives. Authorities are still working to understand how he was able to evade capture despite prompting alerts from officers on the ground who lost track of him before he perched on a nearby roof and opened fire.

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