The FBI said Friday that a bullet struck former President Donald Trump's ear during an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, about two weeks ago.

The FBI provided this clarification after conflicting accounts emerged about what caused the former president's injury after a gunman opened fire on him at a campaign rally.

"A bullet struck former President Trump's ear, either whole or broken into smaller pieces," the FBI said in a statement, noting that it was "fired from the deceased's gun," according to the Associated Press.

The FBI statement is the most accurate account by U.S. law enforcement authorities of Trump's injury, and came after earlier ambiguous comments from FBI Director Christopher Wray that appeared to cast doubt on whether Trump was actually struck by a bullet or shrapnel.

Christopher Wray said during a congressional hearing that there were still questions about whether Trump was hit by a bullet or bullet fragments, angering Trump and his allies.

"I took a bullet for democracy," Trump said, attacking Wray on Truth Social over his testimony.

Trump wrote: "There was no glass, there were no shards. At the hospital they called it a gash in the ear, which is what it was. No wonder the great FBI has lost America's trust."

The FBI's earlier reluctance to issue a statement supporting the former president's version of events has raised new tensions between the Republican nominee and the nation's premier federal law enforcement agency.

Trump and his supporters have repeatedly accused the Biden administration of using the FBI against him, such as raiding his Florida headquarters in 2022 to search for classified documents.