Former President Donald Trump will attend a private funeral planned this week for firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was killed during the assassination attempt on him last weekend, The Post has learned.
Comperatore was supporting Trump at Saturday’s campaign rally when shots were fired from a nearby rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The gunman cut off Trump’s right ear, killing Comperatore and seriously injuring two others.
The suspect, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed.
Asked if Trump would attend the father of two’s funeral a week after surviving the assassination attempt, a source close to the former president told The Post: “Of course I would.”
Earlier this week, Trump called Comperatore’s wife to offer his condolences.
“He was very kind and said he would continue to call me in the days and weeks to come,” Helen Comperatore wrote of the former president on Facebook. “I told him the same thing I told everyone else. He left this world a hero and God welcomed him. He did not die in vain that day.”
Comperatore was the former fire chief of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company in Sarver, Pennsylvania.
A GoFundMe campaign for Comperatore’s wife has raised more than $1.2 million in the days since the firefighter’s death.
With information from the New York Post
Source: https://www.ocafezinho.com/2024/07/17/trump-comparecera-ao-funeral-de-bombeiro-morto-durante-atentado/
