Former President Donald Trump honored Corey Comperatore, the father and firefighter who was shot at his July rally, in his return to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday—one month before the 2024 presidential election.
“Corey, our beautiful Corey, Corey is not with us tonight, and he should be, and we all miss him,” Trump said at his rally in the key swing state of Pennsylvania.
Trump returned to Butler just three months after a gunman shot the former president at a rally there, wounding him in the ear.
“We are here not only to mark the triumph of American spirit,” Trump said, ” … but also to pay tribute to some of the best and bravest we have ever known. This field is now a monument to the valor of our first responders, to the resilience of our fellow citizens and to the sacrifice of a loving and devoted father, a really great man.”
