The widow of a volunteer firefighter who was shot and killed at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend said the former president called her and was “very kind,” according to reports.
According to the New York Post, Helen Comperatore wrote on Facebook that she received a call from Trump on Tuesday, three days after her husband, Corey, was shot while trying to protect his family during a campaign event in Butler.
“He was very kind and said he would continue to call me in the days and weeks to come,” his widow reportedly wrote. “I told him the same thing I told everyone else: He left this earth a hero and God has received him. His death that day was not in vain.”
Helen Comperatore told the New York Post on Monday that her husband’s final words were, “Get down!”
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Helen Comperatore (left) posted on Facebook that she received a call from former President Trump on Tuesday following the shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13. (Jeff Swensen/Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“He’s my hero,” Helen Comperatore told the newspaper from her home in Thurber, Pennsylvania. “He just said, ‘Get down!’ Those were his last words.”
“My kids and I were there as a whole family,” she added. “He was just excited. It looked like a great day out with the family.”
Corey Comperatore, 50, is the former fire chief of the Buffalo Township Fire Department, which now has a memorial outside the station featuring Comperatore’s uniform and calling him a “brother, son, husband, father and friend.”
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Helen Comperatore, the wife of Corey Comperatore, called for help on July 13, shortly after Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire on former President Trump during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
Helen Comperatore also said that President Biden tried to call her family after the incident, but “I didn’t want to talk to him.”
“I did not speak to Mr. Biden,” she said. “My husband is a staunch Republican and would not have wanted him to speak to me.”
“I have no ill will towards Joe Biden,” Comperatore added. “I’m not a political person. I support Trump, I’ll vote for him, but I have no ill will towards Biden.”
Former Buffalo Township Fire Chief Corey Comperatore is pictured with his daughters in an undated family photo. (Helen Comperatore/Facebook)
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Helen Comperatore described the gunman at the rally, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, as a “mean kid.”
