CNN Panel Explodes After Guest Claims Trump ‘Supposedly’ Got Shot: ‘Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!’

A CNN panel exploded on Thursday after one guest claimed President Donald Trump “supposedly got shot,” leading to Scott Jennings demanding an immediate correction.

On CNN NewsNight, Abby Phillip had to wrangle control of her panel after podcaster Touré exclaimed that Trump “supposedly” was shot in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. The comment came during a discussion about the president’s health.

Adrienne Elrod, a former campaign spokesperson for former Vice President Kamala Harris, accused the White House of having “not always been forthcoming” about the current president’s health following White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressing Trump’s bruised hands, chalking it up to “minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking, and the use of aspirin” after reading a note from the president’s physician.

Elrod also brought up the point that Trump appeared to forget that he appointed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

“He supposedly got shot in the ear. We never heard from his doctors about that,” Touré added, immediately setting off Jennings, a senior CNN correspondent, and conservative pundit Ben Ferguson.

“Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Did you say supposedly?” Jennings asked, then pointing to the podcaster next to him and saying, “Abby, Abby,” to the panel’s anchor.

“If y’all stop screaming at the table, maybe I can actually respond,” Phillip said over the crosstalk.

“Supposedly,” Jennings said in frustration.

“Supposedly. That’s where we’re at now,” Ferguson added. “Touré, he was shot in the ear.”

“Hold on a second!” Phillip said. “Touré, he was shot in the ear.”

“But did we hear from the doctors? We would always hear from his doctors when he gets shot?” Touré asked.

“Did we hear from his doctors?” Phillip then asked Jennings.

“I mean, all I know is I went to the Republican National Commission and he had a bandage on his ear,” Jennings answered.

“That would be a no,” Touré said.

“He had blood on his face! Where did it come from?” Jennings asked.

Phillip cut through crosstalk yet again and got things back on track.

“This is not really what we’re talking about because the one of the reasons he released this information is because there were photos of his swelling. There were photos of his hand. They kind of had to say something at some point,” she said. “And look, it’s a benign — hold on — it’s benign condition. He is fine. It’s just a function, frankly, of being an older person.”

The president’s campaign released a memo on Trump’s injuries shortly after the July 13 shooting. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who previously served as Trump’s physician, said the president sustained a gunshot wound to his ear “less than a quarter of an inch from entering his head, and struck the top of his right ear.” Jackson said there was “initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire upper ear.”

Watch above via CNN.