Donald Trump Jr. on Wednesday blasted MSNBC commentators who suggested his father, former President Donald Trump, wore a bandage on his ear at the Republican National Convention simply out of sympathy.
MSNBC's Michael Steele and Ari Melber questioned Trump's bandage on his ear just three days after a gunman tried to assassinate him at a Pennsylvania rally, and the former president's son said the liberal media couldn't help but be infected with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“For them, getting shot in the face wasn't enough,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday. “It wasn't enough. That's the problem. They can't do anything about it. Trump Madness Syndrome is real. They're stupid to say that. You look at the pictures from that time. There's blood everywhere.”
Donald Trump Jr. slammed an MSNBC pundit who suggested his father bandaged his ear just to garner sympathy. pic.twitter.com/8uxIwJgVg0
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Steele said “a lot of questions” remained about Trump's ear injury, while Melber suggested the bandaging was a “political attempt” to gain sympathy and political clout. (Related: Lincoln Project co-founder doubles down on 'Donald Trump's bullets' comments after assassination attempt)
Photos and video from Saturday's rally showed the former president bleeding from his ear after suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired several shots into the crowd, then opened fire from a nearby roof, killing one person and wounding two others.
The former president considered it a miracle he survived and said a chart listing illegal immigration statistics saved his life.
“The doctors at the hospital said they'd never seen anything like this, it was a miracle,” Trump told the New York Post. report“I wasn't supposed to be here. I was supposed to be dead,” the former president continued. “I was supposed to be dead.”
US authorities had advance information about an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump, and the Secret Service stepped up protection for the former president in the weeks before the election.
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