In a Way, What Corey Comperatore Joked With His Family About at Butler Rally Ended Up Happening
Leah Barkoukis
The family of the firefighter killed at former President Donald Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally last month spoke out about what happened on July 13, when a gunman tried to assassinate the GOP presidential nominee.
Speaking to Pittsburgh's Action News 4, Helen Comperatore recalled how her husband, Corey, joked that day about how Trump would call him up to the stage.
"All day at the rally, my husband kept kept saying, 'He's going to call me up on stage, you're going to hear him, he's going to say Corey, get up here.' He was just joking, obviously, but he kept saying that — 'He's going to call me up on stage.'”
That’s why the moment Trump honored Comperatore at the Republican National Convention was such an “honor.”
“We were all like, there's his moment. He's up on stage. He got his moment on stage,” she said.
Comperatore died a hero that day as he instructed his wife and two daughters, Allyson and Kaylee, to get down when shots rang out, throwing his body over them to protect them.
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