The former president and GOP candidate said he wants to have a ‘big and beautiful rally, honoring the soul of our beloved firefighting hero, Corey (Comperatore) and those brave patriots injured two weeks ago.’
(LifeSiteNews) — Less than a week after the Secret Service urged Donald Trump to not hold events outside, the former president announced on TRUTH Social that he will be returning to the same location he was shot at in Pennsylvania.
“I will be going back to Butler, Pennsylvania for a big and beautiful rally, honoring the soul of our beloved firefighting hero, Corey (Comperatore) and those brave patriots injured two weeks ago. What a day it will be — fight, fight, fight!”
According to The Washington Post, the Secret Service suggested that Trump should not hold rallies at outdoor venues and to instead campaign indoors. Some pundits have argued that the agency’s request is a form of election interference intended to suppress enthusiasm for Trump, who, according to the New York Post, drew an estimated crowd of 80,000 at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey this summer.
Trump’s first campaign stop after accepting the Republican Party’s presidential nomination this month was at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the second largest city in the state. The location has a maximum capacity of around 12,000. Thousands of supporters who waited in line to get in but were turned away mulled about outside while Trump and running mate J.D. Vance gave their speeches to a raucous crowd.
The Secret Service has been roundly criticized for its failure to protect Trump on July 13, the day he was shot at by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks was brought to the attention of law enforcement at the rally by several attendees long before he fired multiple rounds at Trump’s head around 6:11p.m. EST. The agency has blamed everything from miscommunication with local police to claiming the building Crooks shot from was not only outside the perimeter but was too dangerous for agents to be stationed on because it had a “sloped” roof.
Former Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle resigned her post after Congressional lawmakers grilled her days after the shooting. Republicans have blamed the attack on Homeland Security Secretary Alexander Mayorkas for having turned down repeated requests from the Trump team to beef up his security over the past two years.
On July 27, a defiant Trump took to TRUTH Social to declare that he will not be scaling back his campaign events.
“I will continue to do outdoor rallies, and Secret Service has agreed to substantially step up their operation. They are very capable of doing so. No one can ever be allowed to stop or impede free speech or gathering!” he exclaimed.
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington D.C., has found that mobile devices that “regularly visited” Crooks’ home and place of work also visited a location near Secret Service and FBI headquarters in Washington, raising the specter that there was possible Deep State involvement in coaxing Crooks to take action against Trump.
?ASSASINATION INFO DROP?
We found the assassin’s connections through our in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates.
To do this, we tracked devices that regularly visited both Crooks’s home and place of work and followed them.? https://t.co/T5HETLhkgM pic.twitter.com/hMsI9dFwNk
— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) July 22, 2024
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has already told Fox News that “we cannot trust the FBI to do an open and honest investigation” about the assassination attempt.
WATCH:
This morning, @RonJohnsonWI Senator Ron Johnson went on @MariaBartiromo’s show and said he has learned that right after Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot and killed, a guy in a grey suit climbed up the ladder and onto the roof where the shooter’s dead body was and started… pic.twitter.com/Vq79OABSdb
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 21, 2024
Aside from the death of Comperatore, two other men were critically injured at the rally, 74-year-old James “Jim” Copenhaver and 57-year-old David “Jake” Dutch. Both men’s families have released statements expressing thanks for the support they have receive as they recover from “life-altering injuries.”
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