Quarter of an inch Donald Trumps former physician reveals how close he was to death.
Republican nominee Donald Trumps former physician revealed on Saturday that the former US presidents gunshot wound missed his head by a quarter of an inch.
According to an analysis of NEET-UG 2024 results, it was observed that a large number of students scoring high marks were concentrated in specific examination centers located in particular cities or states. The National Testing Agency released the scores of 23,33,162 candidates who appeared for the undergraduate medical entrance examination, following a directive from the Supreme Court to make the data public.
Out of the 50 NEET-UG exam centers where the highest percentage of candidates scored above 650, 37 centers are situated in Rajasthan's Sikar district. Scoring above 650 gives candidates the opportunity to secure admission in government medical colleges.
Among the 30,204 students who obtained scores above 650 and are competing for the 20,000 coveted MBBS seats in government medical colleges, 2,037 students scored above 650 in Sikar alone. Krishan Sharma, a concerned parent from Haryana, stated, "The CBI should definitely investigate this anomaly." Dr. Sharma is also one of the petitioners in the NEET-UG 2024 paper leak case before the Supreme Court.Trump faced an assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania, where he was wounded on the upper part of his right ear. Two other people were wounded and one attendee died at the event.
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In the first detailed account of the injury, former White House physician and current Texas lawmaker, Ronny Jackson, wrote in a memo that, “The bullet passed, coming less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.”
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Jackson also stated that he flew to New Jersey after the rally and has
been in charge of treating Trump's wound ever since.
The Texas lawmaker also added that the current wound was about 2 centimetres wide and had damaged the cartilage as well. Due to the bleeding, it had experienced swelling but the wound was starting to heal.
Jackson also clarified that the bandage around Trump's ear was to stop small amounts of bleeding and no stitches had been required so the wound was naturally healing.
Trump had undergone a CT scan after the wound as well, and according to Jackson, would soon be tested for hearing as well.
Ronny Jackson, a former Navy rear admiral, was first appointed to the White House medical unit under President George W Bush and became the president's doctor under Barack Obama in 2013.
In 2018, he praised Trump's “great genes” and stated that the Republican nominee could live up to 200 years. Soon after he became a close campaign aide and has taken controversial stances such as questioning Joe Biden's cognitive abilities and calling for masks during COVID-19 to not be compulsory.
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