Trump Wore Bandage in September 2024 Interview After Ear Healed?

A viral screenshot of Donald Trump unfold in September 2024 claiming to point out the previous U.S. president sporting a bandage on his proper ear that month, despite the fact that his ear had reportedly already healed following an assassination try in opposition to him in July. The screenshot claimed to point out a latest Fox Information interview by which the bandage is seen on Trump’s ear.

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Nevertheless, the above submit and others falsely claimed that the interview was latest. The screenshot is from a July 2024 Fox Information interview Trump had alongside his working mate, JD Vance, performed by Jesse Watters. As such, we price this declare as “Miscaptioned.”

We discovered the precise second from the X submit in a Fox Information interview from late July 2024. The second in query happens on the 1:23 minute mark within the YouTube video under:

Here’s a screenshot of that second as properly:

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Jesse Watters’ July 2024 interview with Trump was aired once more on Fox Information on Sept. 2, 2024, in response to the Internet Archive. Through the second from the screenshot, Trump was responding to a query from Watters, who requested, “Are strikes in opposition to the [drug] cartels nonetheless on the desk?”

Trump responded: “Completely. … Mexico goes to must straighten it out actually quick. … They’re killing 300,000 folks a yr with fentanyl coming in.”

Nevertheless, the Sept. 2, 2024, broadcast of the interview didn’t point out it was initially recorded a number of weeks earlier. Watters additionally by no means indicated in his introduction to the interview that he was sharing an older recording. The YouTube video from Fox Information in July 2024 corroborated that this was an outdated interview of Trump when he was nonetheless sporting the ear bandage.

Trump was injured in a taking pictures on July 13, 2024, by which a bullet pierced the higher a part of his proper ear. Pictures within the aftermath of the taking pictures show a bloodied Trump surrounded by Secret Service brokers, with blood working from Trump’s proper ear onto his face.

On July 26, 2024, Trump confirmed at an occasion in Florida that he was performed sporting a bandage on his ear: “As I feel you possibly can see, I’ve recovered properly and, in reality, simply took off the final bandage off of my ear.”

A sequence of more recent Getty Pictures pictures from August 2024 additionally confirmed Trump with out the bandage on his ear.

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