Trump slams FBI at rally after bureau finally confirms he was shot by bullet: Live updates

During a private meeting at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, then-president Donald Trump reportedly mused aloud about whether people with disabilities would be better off dead instead of causing more expenses for their caregivers.

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Gustaf Kilander has the details.

“Did you see the FBI today apologize?” Trump told the crowd at The Believers’ Summit 2024 at a Turning Point Action event in West Palm Beach, Florida on Friday evening.

“Well, they said it might have been a bullet, but it might have been glass. So really, where did the glass come from? Or it might have been shrapnel, where the shrapnel come from? No. They then said it was a bullet.

“It just never ends with these people. They raid Mar a Lago, they do things so bad, so bad. Our country is so sick. But they apologize. We accept their apology.”

Donald Trump is lashing out against Democrats for pressuring Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race, comparing it to a “coup” conducted by “fascists.”

“There was nothing nice about what they were doing,” he said.

Trump also attacked Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, as a “bum” and the “most incompetent, unpopular, and far left vice-president in American history.”

Donald Trump didn’t waste time on Friday at the Turning Point Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, and quickly addressed the recent assassination attempt against him.

“I stand before you thanks to the power of prayer and the grace of almighty God,” Trump said.

He told the crowd today’s speech marks the first time he’s been able to take the bandage off his ear.

“I hope that’s it,” he said.

Former Trump administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is currently speaking at the Turning Point Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida, where Trump himself is expected to speak shortly.

Carson, who is Black, is telling the crowd about how in his experience, Donald Trump is not a racist.

‘I haven’t seen anything about him that even seems slightly racist to me,” he said.

Carson credited Trump for not running a segregated club when he moved to Florida, which was the norm at the time, the former official said.

As evidence of his friend’s lack of racism, Carson pointed to how Trump treated his employees.

“He knows their name,” he said. “He works with them. He loves them. They love him.”

“Crooked Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech was barely understandable, and sooo bad!” he said of the address, which lasted roughly 10 minutes.

“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle,” the bureau said in a statement.

Trump quickly replied in a post on his Twitter clone, Truth Social, writing, “I assume that’s the best apology that we’ll get from Director Wray, but it is fully accepted!”

The director’s comments inspired furious condemnation from Republicans.