Newsweek Claims Donald Trump Was Not Really Shot Because Only Part of a Bullet May Have Hit Him

Newsweek is facing social media backlash after downplaying the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump by suggesting he was only hit with part of a bullet instead of an intact bullet.

The Newsweek article is titled  “Donald Trump Might Not Have Been Shot After All.”

Newsweek attempts to justify this title by pointing to testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray, wherein Wray said, “…With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.”

Donald Trump might not have been shot after all https://t.co/60KvtkhY1N pic.twitter.com/fObe2Jr3iG

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 25, 2024

For those of you who care about the meaning of the word, “shrapnel” is a piece of a bullet or, when on a battlefield, of the ordnance or other weapon deployed to kill or maim an enemy.

Merriam-Webster defines “shrapnel” as 1) “a projectile that consists of a case provided with a powder charge and a large number of usually lead balls and that is exploded in flight” and 2) “bomb, mine, or shell fragments.”

In other words, Trump was shot regardless of whether he was hit by an intact bullet or by pieces of that bullet, i.e., shrapnel.

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X users mocked Newsweek over the post diminishing the assassination attempt.

This is really covering some ground, but @Newsweek might be the most embarrassing "news organization" in the entire country. They constantly publish BS, but this is next level Trump derangement. They should be ashamed of themselves!!! pic.twitter.com/ggjWWPCU7S

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 25, 2024

Who else thinks President Trump should sue the heck out of Newsweek? https://t.co/blKV5tg4zO

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) July 25, 2024

So first Kamala was never the border czar and now Trump wasn’t actually shot, even though we all watched a dude with a gun on top of a roof shoot at his head as secret service watched.

Okay. https://t.co/iMWZbMp3jg

— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) July 25, 2024

According to the media:

Kamala was NOT the Border Czar.

Kamala was NOT the most liberal U.S. Senator.

Kamala did NOT promote defund the police.

Kamala did NOT say 18-24 year-olds were dumb.

And Donald Trump never got shot.

You don't hate these people enough. https://t.co/tq7mFZB2Zl

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 25, 2024

One X user wrote, “He was definitely shot.. yall are weird.”

Another wrote, “Alex Jones got sued for less” and yet another opined, “Wow. Newsweek has just outed itself as a radical left rag sheet. As if we didn’t know.”

One other X user’s response was, “You people are disgusting ghouls.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of  Down Range with AWR Hawkins , a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram:  @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at  breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at  awrhawkins@breitbart.com.