ABC Reporter Pretends Trump Wasn’t Shot While Accepting Award For Assassination Attempt Coverage
By: Beth Brelje
April 28, 2025
Does the propaganda press want us to forget Trump was shot and that there are still unanswered questions?
ABC News’ Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott promoted the importance of “accuracy” in journalism after winning the White House Correspondents Association award for reporting under deadline pressure on Sunday. The award and $2,500 cash prize was for her live television coverage of the July 13 assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which he was shot in the ear.
https://twitter.com/whca/status/1916632566695657611“Journalism at its core is the act of bearing witness. We in this room are not just storytellers. We are also witnesses to history, and that comes with a deep responsibility to report with clarity, accuracy and integrity, even moments of panic and distress,” Scott said in the prepared speech she carried to the podium during the annual formal dinner.
Immediately after that, she failed to accurately report what happened in Butler, even though Scott has had months to understand the events of that day.
“Tonight, I want to commend all of the journalists and photographers who did just that on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a campaign rally quickly turned into an attempted assassination of President Trump. Three people were struck by bullets that afternoon. One lost his life shielding his family. Two others suffered life altering injuries.”
She was talking about three Pennsylvania residents who attended the rally and were tragically shot. They are Corey Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, Pennsylvania., who was shot and killed; and James Copenhaver of Moon Township and David Dutch of New Kensington, who both received serious injuries.
But four people were struck by a would-be assassin’s bullets that afternoon. Trump was shot in the head. The bullet struck his ear because he miraculously turned his head at just the right moment.
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