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The office is assessing the causes of the former president’s injury and the assassination attempt. The factor has become political.

By Adam Goldman and Glenn Thrush

Report from Washington

The F. B. I. is examining fragments of steel discovered near the site of a crusade in Butler, Pennsylvania, to determine whether an assassin’s bullet (or possible remains) grazed former President Donald J. Trump’s head, bleeding his ear, according to the FBI. et a federal law enforcement official.

The office requested to interview Mr. Trump as part of its broader investigation, hoping to provide information about the shooting and likely a more complete history of his injury, the official said, speaking under the guise of anonymity to discuss the follow-up. . Of the investigation.

Unanswered questions about the object that hit the Republican presidential candidate have persisted since the July 13 shooting, with Trump claiming he was struck by a bullet and calling his survival an act of divine intervention.

FBI. Officials were more cautious, citing a desire to analyze the evidence before determining what hit Trump: a bullet, a fragment of steel or something else.

The bureau’s shooting reenactment team “continues to review evidence from the scene, adding bullet fragments, and the investigation continues,” the FBI said in a statement Thursday. In addition to wounding Trump, the gunman, Thomas Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, shot three protesters at the rally, one of them fatally.

Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, did not respond to whether he had asked to review the former president’s medical records after the incident, but Trump has not made them public.

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