Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is among the many camp that believes former President Donald Trump’s ear bandage after an assassination try in Pennsylvania over the weekend is extreme.
The severity of Trump’s damage after a would-be murderer tried to gun him down in Butler, Pennsylvania, at a rally on Saturday has been questioned by some, together with MSNBC host Ari Melber, who referred to as the ear bandage he was noticed sporting in his first public look for the reason that taking pictures a “spectacle.”
Navratilova responded to an X account’s submit of an image that confirmed Trump sporting the ear bandage with a caption that questions its necessity.
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“A very good pal of mine is the cost nurse (Level IV FNP) at a serious trauma heart in an enormous metropolis,” the submit learn. “She says there’s completely no want to decorate an ear wound like this, except half his ear was blown off. And even then, it wouldn’t appear to be this.”
Navratilova agreed, whereas additionally insisting this can be a “PR stunt” by Trump.
DELEGATES SEEN WEARING EAR BANDAGES AT REPUBLICAN CONVENTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH TRUMP
“Of course – that is clearly a PR stunt – the day after the taking pictures he had no dressing on his ear… not even a band-Aid,” Navratilova tweeted.
Navratilova didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Fox News Digital.
Donald Trump Jr. made an look on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday, the place he fired again at MSNBC for a number of commentators questioning the validity of his father’s damage.
“He wasn’t shot within the face sufficient for them. It wasn’t sufficient?” he mentioned. “That’s the purpose. They can not help themselves. The Trump Derangement Syndrome is actual. It’s so asinine that they might say that… You see the {photograph} on the time. There’s blood in all places.”
The bandage that Trump wore was seen on a number of delegates on the Republican National Convention (RNC), which was completed in solidarity with him.
Arizona’s Joe Neglia was amongst these sporting the bandage.
“Yesterday when he got here in, and there was that eruption of affection within the room, I believed, ‘What can I do to honor the reality? What can I probably do?'” Neglia informed Fox News Digital. “And then I noticed the bandage and I believed, ‘I can try this.’ So, I put it on merely to honor Trump and to precise sympathy with him and unity with him.”
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The RNC noticed many Republicans rallying behind Trump, thanking God for safeguarding him from the assassination try.
Fox News’ Jamie Joseph, Elizabeth Elkind and Bailee Hill contributed to this report.
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