Leaked audio appears to reveal Donald Trump joking about Helen Comperatore, the widow of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was murdered by the killer who attacked Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.
The leak comes ahead of Trump’s return to the Butler, Pennsylvania, location where an attempt was made on his life and Comperatore was murdered next weekend.
Speaking in Aspen, Colorado, on August 10, Trump was talking about how he had given Helen Comperatore $1 million and raised money for the family on Gofundme when he told a joke.
“So they are going to receive millions of dollars, but to the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I gave her the check, we gave her the check, and she said, ‘This is very nice and I appreciate it, but I would rather have my husband. Now, I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t say the same thing,” she said with a laugh.
Trump then called out some of the club members who could be the target of the prank, but made sure to exclude Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who was present.
Leaked audio appears to reveal Donald Trump joking about Helen Comperatore, the widow of firefighter Corey Comperatore who was murdered by the killer who attacked Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.
The leak comes ahead of Trump’s return to the Butler, Pennsylvania, location where an attempt was made on his life and Comperatore (pictured right with his wife Helen) was murdered next weekend.
‘I know at least four couples. There are four couples, Governor (Abbott), that I know and you are not one of them. In fact, at least four couples here would be delighted.’
In fact, Trump told the joke earlier at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, just weeks after the shooting.
The fundraiser is believed to have raised more than $12 million for Trump’s re-election campaign. the guardian information.
Trump vowed Tuesday to turn his return to the site of his assassination attempt into a celebration of Comperatore’s life.
He will appear before supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
“It’s going to be a really big event, and it’s going to be something,” Trump told reporters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “We will celebrate Corey’s life.”
But he gave no indication that he was nervous about returning to the spot where a bullet grazed his ear.
“Butler has become quite a famous place,” he said. It’s like a monument.
Former US President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump kisses a firefighter’s helmet and jacket that belonged to Corey Comperatore
Comperatore is removed from stands by state police after weapons are fired at Trump
“Now people walk the streets of Butler, looking at it as if it were a monument.”
He said a GoFundMe appeal for Comperatore and other victims had raised $5 million. Most of it had gone to his widow, but two other wounded supporters also received a million dollars.
He said the event would be an opportunity to celebrate emergency services, doctors and others who helped the injured.
“There are a lot of talented people in our country, so it will be exciting,” he said.
‘And the question is, how am I going to start the speech?
‘And I think I’m going to say, ‘As I said,’ because that’s where I was. I arrived very early.’
Trump has changed his campaign schedule since he was injured on July 13.
Since then, most of his rallies have been held indoors. Outdoors, it now appears behind a thick bulletproof screen.
Trump said a GoFundMe appeal for Comperatore and other victims had raised $5 million. Most of it had gone to his widow, but two other injured followers also received $1 million.
Elon Musk will join Trump at his rally on Saturday.
‘I’ll be there to support!’ Musk wrote on his social platform X on Thursday in a retweet of Trump’s own promotion of the rally. The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla will be among the special guests attending, the Trump campaign confirmed Friday.
The event will mark the first time the billionaire businessman has appeared publicly at a campaign event for the former president since endorsing him.
The July endorsement came immediately after the assassination attempt, with Musk writing on X: “I fully support President Trump and look forward to his quick recovery.”
Musk has stepped up his support for Trump in recent months and has become more personally involved in politics, even agreeing to lead a government efficiency commission if Trump wins re-election.
He also created a super PAC that supports the Republican candidate and has been spending heavily on get-out-the-vote efforts in the final months of the campaign.
Saturday’s rally will take place on the same property where a gunman’s bullets grazed Trump’s right ear and killed his supporter, Comperatore. The shooting left several people injured.
Several members of Comperatore’s family, as well as other attendees and first responders from the July rally, will join Trump on Saturday on the farm show property, according to the campaign.
Also appearing with the former president will be his running mate, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, his son Eric Trump, his daughter-in-law and Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump, and several Pennsylvania lawmakers and sheriffs, the campaign said.