'In the clear': Dr. Anthony Fauci weighs in on Trump injury after shooting

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former White House chief medical adviser, assuaged concerns around former President's Donald Trump's health and injuries following last weekend's attempted assassination.

"I don't think there is much more to it," the doctor and former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told CNN Friday.

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"So I think that with regard to the health related, purely to the bullet itself, I think he's in the clear, as far as I can see," he added.

Trump had been the target of a 20-year-old gunman at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A bullet struck and injured the upper part of his right ear, Trump said in a Truth social post that evening.

The former president could be seen at the Republican National Convention days after wearing a large white bandage on his ear.

While cautious to make "diagnoses from a distance," Fauci said he saw no reason to believe there was further damage.

"From what I'm seeing, the way he's acting now, and what his physicians' reports are, it seems to have been a superficial wound to the ear," Fauci said, referring to a surface-level wound or abrasion. "And that's all."

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