And there's an interesting statistic.
The ears are the bloodiest part.
If something happens with the ears, they bleed more than
any other part of the body for whatever reason.
The doctors told me that.
They said why is there so much blood?
He said it's the ears.
They bleed more.
So we learned something Ears.
The ears are the bloodiest part of the human body.
But aside from that, we've gotten very little official information
about the former president's condition.
Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson, who is Trump's White House doctor,
has said the bullet in Trump's assassination attempt took off
the top of Trump's ear.
His son Eric said that the wound did not require
stitches, But that is basically it.
Joining me now is Doctor Vin Gupta.
He's an MSNBC medical contributor and in a critical care
physician.
Dr.
Gupta, this seems like given you know, what we know
of previous presidential nominees and current presidents, like an unusual
blackout of medical information.
I wonder if it seems unusual to you and if
you know what, what you would like to know about
the president's condition.
Well, absolutely.
Good evening, Alex.
This is it's unusual given the gravity of the situation.
And I'd say for your viewers, something to look up
and and research if you're interested.
It's called the tangential gunshot wound.
That's essentially what the president is saying happened here.
He had a high velocity bullet from an AR15 style
weapon shoot directly at his head, missed penetrating his skull
but actually impacting the surrounding tissues.
In this case is year.
That's what we're being told.
That's serious, Alex.
I come from a military background, right?
You know, that predisposes in some cases to a traumatic
brain injury.
Overtime we may not see initial symptoms upfront.
There could have been signs of bleeding that maybe were
not present on that initial CT scan.
That apparently was normal for whatever report we got, that
summary report.
There's a lot of potential impacts here that can impact
his functioning.
If he's the next president to his balance, to his
hearing.
Again, that can manifest overtime.
So this is a big deal.
Tangential gunshot wound.
If this was indeed a bullet injury to the ear,
this is a big deal.
Tangential gunshot wounds, we see them again all the time.
The armed forces, they can have secondary impacts.
Are there, are there particular things you'd want to know
about his treatment either immediately after the assassination attempt or
now?
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, you know, first of all, we Eric Trump has
said that there's no stitches needed.
That's a big deal because the implication then Alex is
well, gosh, they were able to control the bleeding from
from from an impact that somehow took off a part
of his year.
We're saying from an ARC 15 style weapon, the kinetic
impact to the body from that type of bullet from
an AR15 style weapon is massive.
So if that was really a bullet injury, it should
cause significant soft tissue damage.
I want to be helpful for the American public to
understand what was the degree of injury.
Were they able to control the bleeding without stitches?
Just to confirm what Eric Trump is staying, what was
that process like?
Do they use things like derma bond or stereo strips
to help?
It would be helpful to understand the extent of injury.
Absolutely.
And then they do they do a cranial nerve full
neurologic exam.
Is his hearing and is his balance.
Are they intact?
We don't know.
Do you have, I mean, I, I do want to
ask just because the president talked at length about it.
He said the ears are the bloodiest part of the
body.
He there was a large volume of blood.
He made note of that last night.
Is that true?
I, you know, no, I, I heard the same thing.
I I was watching as well.
And you know, I don't know what anatomy textbook him
and his, his doctor using, but that is that struck
me as a bit nonsensical.
You know, you can say the lips or above the
eyes, frankly are more vascular.
You know, certainly the heart is the most vascular part
of the body.
So if that were to bleed, that would be quite
bloody.
It it, it was a random comment.
There's it's not rooted in any actual evidence, but from
a surface wound standpoint, any facial injury, the scalp highly
vascular lips, of course, that that's frankly more bloody.
So, you know, it was a random comment.
Well, there are obviously a lot of questions, some serious
medical questions that I we would hope we'll get a
little bit more transparency on in the coming days and
weeks.
Doctor Vin Gupta, great to have your expertise.
Thanks for your time tonight.
Thank you.