Trump’s ear healing consistent with bullet grazing skin, ballistics expert says

Donald Trump was grazed by a bullet during the assassination attempt … at least that’s what a ballistics expert gleans from the way the former president’s wounded ear is healing.

Leonard Romero — a forensic firearms examiner who has worked alongside the LAPD and several other law enforcement agencies in this field — tells TMZ … Trump’s ear healing so quickly is not not evidence that he was not hit (as some have suggested), but on the contrary. … is actually consistent with a graze from a bullet, as opposed to a more direct impact.

The way Leonard explains it…a graze only impacts the surface of the skin – it’s more like a scrape or a scratch, and it doesn’t cause heavy damage, even when the bullet is from an AR assault rifle- 15, as it were. the case here.

Trump was bleeding from his ear afterward Thomas Matthew Crooks squeezed shots to him during his July 13 rally in Pennsylvania … then he wore a massive band at the RNC later, where he accepted the GOP presidential nomination, and has since dropped the bandage at all … and his ear has no major scars visible to the naked eye.

Leonard says the video of the shooting gives no indication Trump was hit by a bullet fragment … instead, he tells us he’s convinced the bullet grazed Trump’s ear before hitting something else … and I don’t believe Trump was cut by broken glass from a teleprompter.

Of course, we’ve heard from someone connected to the Secret Service that maybe it was cut by glass — or some other material that bounced off the bullet — but Romero doesn’t seem to agree.

Anyway – looks like Trump got super lucky here…Leonard says a .223 caliber bullet like the one the shooter used causes devastating direct impact injuries.

Again, Trump’s ear is still intact and not scarred or mutilated…which supports what Leonard is saying here.