{"id":13155,"date":"2024-10-06T01:43:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T01:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2024-10-06T02:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T02:05:47","slug":"trump-returns-to-butler-scene-of-failed-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"Trump Returns to Butler, Scene of Failed Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-returns-to-butler-scene-of-failed-assassination\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Eighty-four days later, former President Donald Trump returned on Saturday to the scene of an assassination attempt on his life in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I was saying,\u201d Trump said, the crowd responding in a roar as he turned toward a graph on a projector screen behind him. \u201cI love that chart. I love that graph. Isn\u2019t it a beautiful thing?\u201d<\/p>\n

The former president picked up right where he left off July 13, when bullets tore through the crowd killing one man and wounding two others.<\/p>\n

The graph showed the amount of illegal border crossings recorded on Trump\u2019s last day in office in 2021. It\u2019s also the one he was looking at when a bullet from 20-year-old Thomas Crooks\u2019s rifle<\/a> grazed his right ear.<\/p>\n

Moments later, U.S. Secret Services agents tackled Trump as a sniper shot and killed Crooks on the roof of the AGR building roughly 400 feet from the rally stage.<\/p>\n

In his return, Trump thanked them as well as the local law enforcement and emergency responders who leaped into action in the aftermath of the shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were on top of me so fast,\u201d he said of the Secret Service agents. \u201cThey were on top of me and there was not even a moment of doubt in their minds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments contrast the intense scrutiny lobbed onto the agency in recent months as the cascading series of communication and security failures<\/a> at the rally came to light. A second attempt on the former president\u2019s life<\/a> while he golfed in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sept. 15 drew further ire.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, however, those concerns weren\u2019t on Trump\u2019s mind. Instead, he took aim at Vice President Kamala Harris and \u201cthe very corrupt political establishment,\u201d who he says villainize him, and the \u201ceveryday people\u201d who \u201care the heart and soul of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, what our opponents have never understood is this movement has never been about me; it\u2019s been about you,\u201d he said to the crowd before referencing the \u201cmillions and millions\u201d of supporters across the country. \u201cYour hopes are my hopes. Your dreams are my dreams and your future is what I\u2019m fighting for every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The long-anticipated event commenced exactly one month before Election Day and featured appearances by Ohio U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Laura, and Elon Musk. Vance is the vice president nominee on the ticket; Lara Trump is co-chairman of the Republican National Committee.<\/p>\n

Moments throughout turned poignant as Trump ordered a moment of silence for 50-year-old Corey Comperatore<\/a>, the former fire chief who died shielding his family from gunfire on July 13. The reflection was capped by an operatic performance of Ave Maria by Christopher Macchio.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people don\u2019t just die in vain, and what he\u2019s left behind is incredible,\u201d Trump said. \u201cGod bless you, Corey. God bless you.\u201d<\/p>\n

At times, the former president lambasted the Biden administration for its border policy, investments in foreign conflicts, and social politics. At others, he thanked the crowd for their support even after his critics carried out multiple impeachments, indictments and ballot challenges.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd who knows, maybe even tried to kill me,\u201d he said, referencing fringe conspiracies about Crooks\u2019 motive. \u201cAnd in turn, you have always stood with me, no matter what. We are a great team.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/trump-returns-to-butler-scene-of-failed-assassination\/ Eighty-four days later, former President Donald Trump returned on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13158,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}