Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) revealed that his nephew was one of the rallygoers nicked by a would-be assassin’s bullet during a campaign event for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Jackson, who previously served as Trump’s physician and chief White House medical adviser during his administration, said he and family were gathered at the Butler Farm Show grounds to hear the former president speak — before shots began to ring out.
“They heard the shots, and everybody dropped to the ground,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity later that evening.
“A bullet crossed his neck, cut his neck, and he was bleeding,” Jackson added, pointing out that the friends and family pen where they were staged was “in the line of fire.”
The 45th president was nearly shot dead himself but revealed in a Truth Social post after visiting a Pittsburgh-area hospital that he “felt the bullet ripping through [his] skin,” and that it “pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
Another attendee was killed and two were critically injured in the shooting, US Secret Service later confirmed.
Jackson’s nephew was also attended to in a triage tent after the incident.
Everything we know about apparent Trump assassination attempt
- Former President Donald Trump was targeted by a shooter during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania
- Trump’s face was grazed by a bullet during the shooting
- The gunman and one bystander have been killed
- President Biden addressed the nation and referred to the shooting as sick, saying he “tried to get ahold of Donald”
Keep up to date on updates with the Post’s live blog on the assassination attempt on Trump
“Thankfully his injury was not serious and he is doing well. My family was sitting in the front, near where the President was speaking,” the congressman added in a statement later.
“Thank you to all those that have reached out to check on him,” he said. “Please join my family and me in praying for all who were injured and the life lost.”
“The President and the survivors are lucky to be alive,” Jackson concluded.
Secret Service snipers killed the gunman, identified by sources to The Post as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, from his perch on the roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage.