Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, has joined music star Kid Rock and fight promoter Dana White in donating $50,000 to a GoFundMe campaign set up for victims of the shooting at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I donate my quarterly Senate salary and am honored to join @KidRock, @danawhite, @ufc and others in supporting the victims of the Butler shooting. I’m donating $50,000 to this great cause,” Scott said. Posts On social media site X.
The fundraiser had raised more than $2.3 million by Sunday, which will be donated to the victims and grieving family of Corey Comperatore, a former volunteer fire captain who was killed in the shooting and offered his own body to protect his family.
The other two victims are reported to be in stable condition after the shooting.
Kid Rock shared a link to the GoFundMe page with supporters via his social media sites, along with a video in support of President Trump.
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy donated $30,000 to the effort.
Scott also called on the Senate Homeland Security Committee to hold hearings later this month with officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service to explain how the shooter got so close to the president.
“The attempted assassination of President Trump and the murder of an innocent American require immediate answers,” Scott said in a statement. “It is a miracle that President Trump is alive and well, but it is completely unacceptable that a psychopathic attempted assassin had direct line of sight to a former president and front-runner for president of the United States.”
Scott serves on the Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.).
The committee’s other ranking Republican, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, has called for a congressional investigation into the shooting.
“It was a failure,” Johnson said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We absolutely need congressional oversight hearings.”
