'What a day it will be': Trump plans 'big and beautiful rally' to honor slain rallygoer
Former President Donald Trump plans to hold a rally in the name of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter fatally shot during the assassination attempt against Trump at his Pennsylvania rally earlier this month.
"I WILL BE GOING BACK TO BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA, FOR A BIG AND BEAUTIFUL RALLY, HONORING THE SOUL OF OUR BELOVED FIREFIGHTING HERO, COREY, AND THOSE BRAVE PATRIOTS INJURED TWO WEEKS AGO," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE — FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT! STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS."
Comperatore's family said that he dived on top of his wife and two daughters to protect them when the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who was also killed in the attack, opened fire on the former president. Trump himself escaped with just minor injuries to his ear.
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His family refused to take a condolence call from President Joe Biden, in honor of Comperatore's commitment to Trump.
"He would not have wanted me to talk to him," his wife told reporters. She added: "I don’t have any ill will towards Joe Biden."
Trump himself ultimately did not attend Comperatore's funeral, with officials citing security concerns. He did, however, show off Comperatore's firefighting uniform at his nominating convention in his honor.
No motive is still officially known for the attack, although the few details that are known appear to suggest that Crooks himself came from a heavily Republican background and his motivation for the killing was not partisan politics, as he also apparently researched how he might plan an attack on Biden as well.
All of this comes as Trump's campaign tries to regain its footing after Biden's exit from the race and Vice President Kamala Harris takes over as the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.