Donald Trump Jr. the son of former President Donald Trump, has sharply criticized MSNBC commentators for their remarks about his father's bandaged ear, which was visible during the Republican National Convention.
The commentators had speculated that the bandage was merely a ploy to garner sympathy.
According to the Daily Caller, MSNBC's Michael Steele and Ari Melber had questioned the purpose of the bandage, which appeared just three days after an assassination attempt on the former president at a Pennsylvania rally. Trump Jr. accused the liberal media of being consumed by "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
"He wasnt shot in the face enough for them," Trump Jr. told Fox & Friends. "It wasnt enough. Thats the point, they cant help themselves. The Trump Derangement Syndrome is real. Theyre so asinine that they can say that. I mean, you see the photograph at the time. I mean, there is blood everywhere."
Steele and Melber suggested that the bandage was part of a "political quest" to gain sympathy and political leverage, despite the visible evidence of the former president's injury. Images from the rally clearly showed blood streaming from Trump's ear after multiple rounds of gunfire were unleashed by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. The attack resulted in one death and two injuries.
Trump himself described his survival as miraculous, attributing his life to a chart containing illegal immigration statistics that he was holding at the time of the attack.
The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle, Trump was quoted by the New York Post. Im not supposed to be here. Im supposed to be dead, he added.
In the wake of the assassination attempt, it was revealed that U.S. officials had received intelligence about Iran's plot to kill Trump, prompting the Secret Service to enhance the former president's security measures weeks before the election.
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