In his return to Pennsylvania for the first time since his attempted assassination July 13, former President Donald Trump on Wednesday hailed the spectator who was killed and the two others seriously wounded by the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Before holding a brief moment of silence at a rally in Harrisburg for Corey Comperatore, 50, a former fire chief shot dead at the rally, Trump recalled Comperatore’s last act, which was to throw himself over his wife and daughters to shield them from the shots fired by Crooks.
“Corey is a hero to all of us,” Trump said at the rally, which was broadcast live in its entirety on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 free online streaming platform.
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