Former president Donald Trump took a moment of silence at his Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on Saturday to honor a retired fire chief who died at a rally in the same venue 12 weeks prior.
Corey Comperatore attended Trump’s Butler rally on July 13 and died shielding his family as an assassin located on a nearby rooftop attempted to kill the former president. Trump returned to Butler on Saturday to complete the rally that ended in tragedy 12 weeks before.
At 6:11 p.m. on Saturday, exactly 12 weeks from the assassin’s first shots, Trump held a moment of silence for Comperatore, who’s uniform covered an empty seat at the rally in his honor. The touching moment featured a performance of “Ave Maria” to honor Comperatore, who attended services at Cabot Methodist Church in Cabot, Pennsylvania.
Trump went on to describe Comperatore’s legacy as “immortal.”
Comperatore was “a…
