Father Who Died Protecting His Wife and Daughter at Trump Rally Laid To Rest
Corey Comperatore, the devoted father and husband who died shielding his wife and daughter from gunfire at the Trump rally in Butler, has been laid to rest.
Bear Creek Road in Cabot, Pennsylvania was lined with mourners on Friday morning as the funeral procession made its way to Cabot Methodist Church, not far from where Mr Comperatore lived with his wife and two daughters, in Sarver. They began arriving three hours before the procession, and included fire trucks, police cruisers and motorcyclists from the Patriot Guard Riders, who honour veterans and fire responders.
Comperatore was remembered by mourners as a devoted family man, good neighbour and upstanding member of the local community. He was a ten-year veteran of the US Army Reserves and spent a number of years as a fire chief.
“There is nothing that man couldn’t do, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do. If you needed something done at your house, he was the dude,” Sally Fox told The Epoch Times. Mrs Fox and her husband own a local business where Mrs Comperatore worked for many years.
“He installed an invisible fence around our house. He raked the best leaf piles to jump in during the fall.”
The Fox family were present at the Trump rally in Butler, but they weren’t close to the Comperatores at the time of the assassination attempt.
“When we found out who was killed, we were stunned. It’s like a knife in our hearts. It hurts,” she added.
NEW: Corey Comperatore’s casket arrives at a church for his funeral after he was shot at the Pennsylvania rally on Saturday.
Comperatore’s casket was carried by eight firefighters as his widowed high school sweetheart watched.
Comperatore’s final act on Earth was telling his… pic.twitter.com/ctkPDncKDC— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 19, 2024
A candlelight vigil was held at Lemerville Speedway in Sarver on 17 July, and then a public viewing was held at Laube Hall at Freeport Community Park, which thousands of mourners attended.
“After the funeral service on July 19, a crowd of mourners outside became silent as firefighters loaded his casket draped with an American flag onto a fire truck. The sound of bagpipes, a three-volley gun salute, and a bugle playing Taps broke the quiet,” according to The Epoch Times.
At his speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, former president Donald Trump paid tribute to Mr Comperatore, bringing his fireman’s hat and jacket onto the stage with him.
“He lost his life selflessly acting as a human shield to protect them from flying bullets,” Trump said, calling Mr Comperatore a “fine man.”
“There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for others,” he added.
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Hawley: “Most of Trump’s Security Detail Were Not even Secret Service”
Trump’s security detail at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally where he escaped death was unusually lax and contained many officials who were not Secret Service agents, according to whistleblower testimony seen by Senator Josh Hawley.
Senator Hawley raised concerns about the arrangements in a letter sent on Friday to Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
?? Whistleblowers tell me that MOST of Trump’s security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service. DHS assigned unprepared and inexperienced personnel ? pic.twitter.com/eo4jNmJWFT
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 19, 2024
“Whistleblowers who have direct knowledge of the event have approached my office,” wrote Senator Hawley.
“According to the allegations, the July 13 rally was considered to be a ‘loose’ security event. For example, detection canines were not used to monitor entry and detect threats in the usual manner. Individuals without proper designations were able to gain access to backstage areas. Department personnel did not appropriately police the security buffer around the podium and were also no stationed at regular intervals around the event’s security perimeter.”
Hawley went on to allege that many of the DHS personnel were unsuitable for the job.
“In addition, whistleblower allegations suggest the majority of DHS officials were not in fact USSS agents but instead drawn from the department’s Homeland Security Investigations (HIS). This is especially concerning given that HIS agents were unfamiliar with standard protocols typically used at these types of events, according to the allegations.”
Hawley vowed, in his role as a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to “continue to investigate your department’s role in the staggering security failures on July 13.”
He noted that the DHS “has not been appropriately forthcoming with Members of Congress” and said that this was “completely unacceptable and contrary to the public’s interest in transparency.”
The senator then asked Mayorkas to respond to a series of questions about former president Trump’s security detail, including how the DHS decided to staff the event, the percentage of staff that were from the HIS rather than the Secret Service and whether discrepancies and security failures were noted by staff before and during the event.
It was also revealed on Friday that shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to fly a drone over the Butler fairground multiple times in the hours before Trump spoke, as Crooks reconnoitered the site and planned his attack.
The official line remains that Crooks was a troubled loner who planned and carried out the assassination attempt on 13 July without any aid from others.
Officials have said that Crooks planned the assassination attempt meticulously. He began his research not long after the event at Butler was announced on 3 July. He registered for the event on 7 July and a few days later visited the fairground to begin his preparation.
He also created homemade bombs, including devices that were found in his car at the Butler showground. It’s not currently known how Crooks was able to manufacture these devices.
“It’s unclear how Crooks assembled the explosive devices found in his car,” CNN reported.
“Investigators parsing through his online search history haven’t found any indication of him researching how to make home-made explosives, law enforcement officials said.”
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Florida Man Arrested for Threatening To Kill Trump and Vance
A Florida man was arrested on Friday night after posting threats on social media to kill Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance and harm their families.
Michael W. Wiseman, of Jupiter, located about twenty miles north of Palm Beach, Donald Trump’s home, posted the threats on Facebook. Wiseman was taken into custody on Friday night by the Jupiter Police Department, without incident, and is being held in Palm Beach County Jail.
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According to an official statement, Jupiter PD were alerted to the threats by multiple online tip-offs as well as “residents who expressed their concern in person.”
In one threat he wrote, “Trump and Vance should be murdered before turning us in to West Russia. No time like the present.”
And in another he wrote, “I am advocating Trump and Vance’s daughters get raped and THEN tell me they won’t fly their kids out of the USA for an abortion.”
?? MICHAEL WISEMAN SUGGESTED CANCER PATIENTS SHOULD KILL TRUMP AS HIS DAUGHTERS ARE RAPED
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) July 20, 2024
These are some of the Facebook posts made by the man who was just charged with the crime of threatening Trump’s life after the assassination attempt.
Source: @TheMagaHulk pic.twitter.com/ewA8BicH3B
The investigation was carried out by the Secret Service in conjunction with the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office.
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Assassin Flew Drone over Rally Hours before Trump’s Appearance
Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks flew a drone over the Butler, Pennsylvania fairground a few hours before former president Trump’s appearance, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal claimed to have spoken to “law-enforcement officials” who told them that Crooks flew a drone on a “programmed flight path” over the fairground where Trump was due to speak. Crooks flew the drone over the fairground more than once “as he researched and scoped out the event site.”
The revelation, if true, is another stunning admission of failure by Trump’s security detail.
Donald Trump Jr. commented on the revelation on Twitter, saying that he was prevented by the Secret Service from flying his own drone off the beach at Mar-a-Lago when his father was there.
“Now we have one literally scouting his speech!!!” Don Jr. said.
The official line remains that Crooks was a troubled loner who planned and carried out the assassination attempt on 13 July without any aid from others.
Officials have said that Crooks planned the assassination attempt meticulously. He began his research not longer at the event at Butler was announced on 3 July. He registered for the event on 7 July and a few days later visited the fairground to begin his preparation.
He also created homemade bombs, including devices that were found in his car at the Butler showground. It’s not currently known how Crooks was able to manufacture these devices.
“It’s unclear how Crooks assembled the explosive devices found in his car,” CNN reported.
“Investigators parsing through his online search history haven’t found any indication of him researching how to make home-made explosives, law enforcement officials said.”
It has also been revealed that Crooks used encrypted cell-phone accounts to communicate.
A motive for the attempt on Trump’s life is also yet to be established. There has been focus on the fact that Crooks appeared to be registered as a Republican to vote, but that he also donated money to a Democrat PAC on the day of Biden’s inauguration. The Wall Street Journal claims that, as well as searching “for dates of Trump rallies,” Crooks also searched for “information about next month’s Democratic convention and President Biden.”
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Bombshell: Scientific Analysis of Raw Audio Suggests AT LEAST TWO Shooters Firing Different Weapons in Two Locations to Kill Trump
Forensic audio analysis of the moments shots were fired at Donald Trump indicates there were at least two shooters attempting to kill the former president, contradicting the government’s lone wolf narrative, according to a PhD researcher.
In a video published to X on Thursday, Dr. Chris Martenson walks through his investigation of audio picked up from microphones located in two different places at Trump’s rally in Butler, Penn.
— Chris Martenson, PhD (@chrismartenson) July 19, 2024
While the official story has claimed the only two gunmen that day were would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks and the Secret Service Counter Sniper that shot him, Martenson says his research “conclusively proves that two (and possibly three) weapons were fired at Trump and the assembled crowd.”
Martenson’s research builds on forensic audio analysis noted by CNN, which on Sunday published an article claiming “Audio forensics suggest as many as three weapons fired at Trump rally.”
In the article, CNN wrote audio researchers at the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver noted the analysis “suggests that as many as three weapons were fired” at the rally.
CNN also noted: “Audio analysis has also confirmed that the gunman was about 360 to 393 feet from the podium, according to forensics expert Robert Maher,” which Martensen said lines up with his research.
“This should not be information you get from me. This should already be part of the national dialog and we should be getting routine updates from the FBI about how they are going about locating the second (and possibly third) shooters,” Martensen says.
The narrative of Crooks being a “lone gunman” is 100% provably false. Which means any deflection to investigating ‘security lapses’ is evidence of a cover-up
— Chris Martenson, PhD (@chrismartenson) July 19, 2024
The evidence I present today comes from analyzing and then comparing the audio files from two separate video recordings,…
Ultimately, the PhD researcher says a congressional investigation is warranted, and he has various questions lined up.
Here are some questions for any reporters or congressional staffers reading this:
(1) What is the FBI doing to locate the other shooter(s)?Have you found the second location and recovered the brass?
(2) How did a second shooter escape detection given all the security staff on hand?
(3) What does the FBI’s audio analysis reveal about the locations of the second shooter(s)?
(4) How many spent casings around Crooks can be counted on the Axon body cameras of the first arriving officers on the scene?
(5) Please also provide any and all body camera audio recordings from local police. SS too, but we’d prefer RAW files from the locals. Kthx.
(6) Please immediately provide the ballistics and the medical injury reports including angles of penetration for each of the three victims.
(7) Also, we’ll need an accurate accounting of the path and final destination of every bullet fired.
(8) Finally, who exactly was in the building just beneath Crooks at the exact time the first three shots were fired?
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Trump Holds ‘Very Good’ Phone Call with Ukraine President Zelensky Day After Securing Republican Nomination
Former President Donald Trump confirmed he spoke with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky Friday, one day after accepting the Republican presidential nomination.
“President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and I had a very good phone call earlier today,” Trump wrote. “He congratulated me on a very successful Republican National Convention and becoming the Republican nominee for President of the United States.”
Trump said Zelensky “condemned the heinous assassination attempt and remarked about the American people coming together in the spirit of Unity during these times.”
“I appreciate President Zelenskyy for reaching out because I, as your next President of the United States, will bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives and devastated countless innocent families,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday evening.
“Both sides will be able to come together and negotiate a deal that ends the violence and paves a path forward to prosperity.”
Earlier Friday, MSNBC appeared freaked out over the call, worried it signals Trump’s possible return to the White House.
BREAKING: President Trump to hold a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today. pic.twitter.com/NhnqS98XEU
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 19, 2024
It’s unclear which side initiated the phone call, but it comes as the Democrat Party is urging US President Joe Biden to give up his 2024 reelection bid in favor of another less-senile candidate.
News of the phone call followed the final night of the Republican National Convention, where in a keynote speech Trump noted there would be no war between Ukraine and Russia if he were president.
During last month’s presidential debate, Trump criticized Joe Biden for gifting Zelensky hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars, saying, “Biden is giving $200 billion or more to Ukraine. That’s a lot of money. Every time Zelensky comes to this country, he walks away with $60 billion. The greatest salesman ever.”
Likewise, vice presidential running mate J.D. Vance is believed to share Trump’s sentiments, saying in 2022, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.”
Speaking to the BBC earlier this week, Zelensky seemed unconcerned by the prospect Trump could be reelected, saying it would be “hard work, but we are hard workers.”
However, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Washington on Tuesday, Zelensky said, “I can’t tell you what he will do, if he will be the president of the United States … we need answers.”
Interestingly, the phone call comes as cybersecurity company Crowdstrike on Friday experienced a significant global outage affecting various industries worldwide.
In the infamous “perfect” phone call with Zelensky, for which Democrats impeached Trump, the former president mentioned Crowdstrike as possibly being the owners of the DNC servers he wanted the Ukrainian president to help investigate.
“Now the Crowdstrike CEO simulates a mass blackout one day after Trump secures the Republican nomination after the assassination attempt failed,” noted citizen journalist @ultrafrog17 on X.
Crowdstrike is so untouchable for the DNC that Trump once got impeached for asking about the CrowdStrike server located in Ukraine in his phone call with Zelensky circa 2019.
— Green Lives Matter (@Ultrafrog17) July 19, 2024
Now the Crowdstrike CEO simulates a mass blackout one day after Trump secures the Republican nomination… pic.twitter.com/Pz0Odxi6fh