BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA — An estimated 100,000 people rallied for Donald Trump’s return to Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, the former president’s campaign told The Daily Wire.
Trump stood in the exact spot where he was shot on July 13, the day that an attempted assassin tried to take his life, killing Corey Comperatore and injuring two others. Trump and others honored Comperatore, who died shielding his wife and daughter from bullets, at Saturday’s rally.
Attendees stood in line for hours in order to secure a spot as close as possible to the former president, who took the stage around 6 p.m., an hour after he was scheduled to appear. His late arrival was timed so that he would be on stage at 6:11 pm, Trump said, the moment when bullets began to fly.
When the clock struck 6:11 p.m., Trump called for a moment of silence as a bell tolled in Comperatore’s honor. Then Trump invited…