Shock; FBI director: I doubt Trump was hit by a bullet

"All due respect to former President Trump, but the question is whether a bullet or shrapnel hit his ear. Now I don't know if that bullet, other than hitting him, could have landed somewhere else," Wray said, reports "Daily Mail".

Wray also addressed the security lapses that allowed the gunman, who has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, to open fire.

In that incident, 20-year-old Crooks killed firefighter Corey Comperatore (50) and wounded two other people, including Trump himself.

"When I got off the stage, the bullets were going over my head and I heard them, like zip, zip," said the US presidential candidate, who was later seen with a bandage over his ear.

The 78-year-old Trump also fell out with his Secret Service because they thought he was "done when he went down" because they "saw a lot of blood" after a bullet grazed his ear.

Then he had an argument with his agents because he told them that he "doesn't want a stretcher and will get up".

He also added that he was saved from the bullet by turning his head at the last moment to look at the screen.

"I should have been dead. The most incredible thing is that I turned around at that very moment and just enough. It was either luck or God got his fingers involved," said Trump.

Wray, on the other hand, stated during his testimony that Crooks had previously researched the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy. A week before the attack on Trump, Crooks searched Lee Harvey Oswald -- the alleged 1963 Kennedy assassin in Dallas -- on a laptop that the FBI says was linked to him.

"Analysis of a laptop linked by the investigation to the attacker revealed that on July 6, he Googled 'how far was Oswald from Kennedy,'" Wray said in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

"That's the same day he apparently registered for the rally in Butler," he said, adding that suspect Thomas Crooks then became "very focused on President Trump and his campaign rally."

The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism, and Crooks' motive is also being investigated.

"We don't know the motive. That is obviously one of the key questions in our investigation and it was very frustrating for us that the many conclusions we reached during the investigation did not give us significant clues about his motive," Wray said, according to the Daily Mail.

At the hearing, Wray answered a variety of questions as part of routine FBI and Justice Department surveillance, and Trump did not like it when, when asked about current President Joseph Biden's mental health, he said he had not noticed any cognitive decline in meetings with him.

Because of this, Trump immediately called on Wray to resign.

"I was watching a congressional hearing today when Christopher Wray was asked if he noticed any cognitive degeneration during his many conversations with Joe Biden," Trump wrote on the Truth Social network, a social platform he founded.

''Wray should resign from the FBI immediately and stop sweet-talking Congress every time, because anyone can see that Joe Biden is cognitively and physically unwell. And if you can't see that, you certainly can't run the FBI -- unless you want to raid Mar-a-Lago illegally. Wray must resign, now, for lying to Congress," Trump wrote.

Otherwise, the FBI was not involved in ensuring the security of the rally and therefore avoided the same level of scrutiny directed at the Secret Service due to the lapses leading up to the event.

Kimberly Cheatle resigned as head of the US Secret Service after members of both major parties demanded it over the failure to prevent an assassination attempt.

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