(WatchDogReport.org) – The presidential campaign of former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump said on July 17 that the conservative leader would attend the funeral of Corey Comperatore, who died during the assassination attempt that Trump survived. Comperatore, who was a firefighter and a Trump supporter, was fatally shot during the incident at Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania while shielding his family during the shooting. Unfortunately, Trump was unable to attend.
During an interview with the New York Post, a campaign spokesman said that Trump would attend the funeral and that the former president wanted to express his condolences to the Comperatore family personally. On her Twitter account, Comperatore’s wife Helen said that the Republican leader called her on July 16 not only to say he “deeply lamented” her husband’s death but also to promise to stay in touch.
Helen also explained on Twitter that the former commander-in-chief was very gentle and kind to her. She detailed how he promised to keep calling her and her family over the next few days to know everything about Comperatore’s funeral. At the end of her tweet, Helen said she told Trump that her husband died like a hero and that he didn’t “die in vain.”
In another Twitter post, Helen’s daughter Allyson said that her father was a man who deeply believed in Jesus Christ and was a “man of God” who sacrificed his life to protect his family. She also detailed that Comperatore was a loving father who always showed the deepest love for his family at every moment.
Allyson Comperatore added that her father was a charismatic man who would make friends at any moment, which she detailed was precisely what he was doing at the Trump rally before the shooting started. She also criticized the mainstream media for overlooking his father’s heroism and refusing to describe how fast he threw her and her mom to the ground to protect them.
Trump authorized a GoFundMe campaign for the family and the other victims of the shooting, which has so far raised over $6.5 million. According to insider sources, Trump was unable to attend the funeral services in person due to concerns the Secret Service reportedly had with the former president’s safety.
Regardless, Comperatore received a hero’s sendoff, complete with a three-volley gun salute, bagpipes, and a bugle playing taps. Hundreds of mourners gathered to pay their respects to the fallen firefighter as his casket, draped with an American flag in the back of a fire engine, was driven along Route 356 in Butler County.
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