Trump demanded a CT scan after PA shooting "because he wanted evidence about the state of his brain."

[Miles Archer]

After having his ear nicked by an assassin's bullet during his appearance at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump made some puzzling demands that baffled his aides and doctors.

In an excerpt of the upcoming book, “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,” to be published on July 8, the Washington Post selected a moment-by-moment recollection of the events of the day — and what followed after Trump was rushed to a nearby hospital.

According to the book, written by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, before the president was released by doctors he demanded a CT scan, because he wanted evidence about the state of his brain.

The book details, "In Trump’s room, he told the doctor he wanted a CT scan. The doctor asked why, and Trump said he felt like he needed it," adding that he was then escorted by Secret Service agents to be tested.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iq-test/

[dalton99a]

1. It was unremarkable

[Orrex]

2. Pretending to be shot can be very traumatic

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[marmar]

3. The jokes write themselves.

[tanyev]

5. Did he think, while he was sitting there with the bleeding stopped and talking to people,

that perhaps more of the bullet had gone into his brain without anyone noticing????

Too bad the doctors didn’t insist on a full psychiatric assessment.

[usonian]

6. They found nothing.

[Tanuki]

7. If his CT scan looked "perfect" he would have released it.

My guess is that there were at least some chronic white matter changes or perhaps other findings, e.g. mild atrophy, microvascular events, etc. that he prefers to conceal. Ronnie Jackson mentioned a CT scan in passing in his post-Butler "letter," and I said at the time that the public should see the results.

[niyad]

8. Hey, rawstory, you morons. His ear was NOT "nicked by an assassin's

bullet". Assuming anything actually touched his ear, it was debris. And, since he is, alas, still wasting oxygen, at best it was a "would-be assassin". Do at least try to pretend.

[-misanthroptimist]

9. CAT scan showed nothing

Nothing at all.