Trump’s ear looks like it couldn’t have ‘gone through less’ after rally shooting, reporter says

Donald Trump’s ear appears to have come out relatively unscathed from the July 13 attempt on his life during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a reporter who recently sat down with the former president for an interview.

New York magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago in August, just weeks after the assassination attempt.

The journalist wrote that during their interview, Trump “raised his right hand and grabbed hold of [his ear].He bent it backward and forward.”

“They didn’t need a stitch,” Trump said at the time.

“Usually, something like that would be considered a surreal experience, where you sort of don’t realize it, and yet there was no surrealism in this case,” he added. “I felt immediately that I got hit by a bullet. I also knew it was my ear.”

But Nuzzi wrote in the lengthy piece that “an ear had never appeared to have gone through less.”

She added: “Except there, on the tiniest patch of this tiny sculpture of skin, a minor distortion that resembled not a crucifixion wound but the distant aftermath of a sunburn.”

Former Obama and Trump White House physician Ronny Jackson, now a Republican Texas congressman, told New York that the wound was shaped like a “half moon.”

He added that “there was nothing to stitch” because the bullet had “scooped” some “skin and fat” from the top of the ear.

Jackson also told the magazine that he designed the square bandage that Trump wore over his ear during the Republican National Convention. The ear was inflamed and irritation could lead to further bleeding, so Jackson dressed it with antibiotic ointment and some gauze, before using the square bandage to cover it all up.

“I’m an emergency medical physician,” Jackson told the magazine. “I’m not a