Helen Comperatore, whose husband Corey died shielding his family during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13, 2024, is not satisfied with the answers she has gotten over the past year. And by "not satisfied" we mean she thinks the whole thing was orchestrated from within the government. As Trending Politics reported, Comperatore sat down with Newsmax and made her case plainly.
"I don't believe there was another shooter there, but I believe that he was working with somebody," Comperatore said. "I believe it was inside. It was an inside job inside the government somewhere."
Now, before you start doing that thing where you either nod vigorously or roll your eyes depending on your political leanings, let's acknowledge the basics. This is a woman who lost her husband, a volunteer firefighter from Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, because he threw himself over his wife and daughters when the bullets started flying. She has earned the right to ask uncomfortable questions, and the fact that she has had to wait roughly a year for the Secret Service to even pick up the phone and call her is, frankly, embarrassing for an agency whose entire job is supposedly protecting people.
When asked if she had seen evidence supporting her belief, Comperatore said she had been told things after the attack that helped her put pieces together. "Oh, I've been told things, but I've had something that happened with me just afterwards, and you're starting to put the pieces together. It just made total sense," she said. She did not elaborate further or provide specific evidence during the interview.
So we do not have the receipts yet. What we do have is a grieving widow, a dead 20 year old shooter named Thomas Matthew Crooks whose motive federal investigators still cannot definitively explain one year later, a rooftop that was inexplicably left unsecured at a presidential campaign rally, and a series of congressional inquiries that have produced leadership changes at the Secret Service but precious few actual answers.
Comperatore had a direct message for President Trump as well. "Just don't forget us and remember what we went through that day," she said. "You know, we're still here and we need answers."
She also criticized the pace and quality of communication from the Secret Service, saying that when she finally got to ask questions about the events surrounding the rally, the responses she received felt incomplete. Which is a polite way of saying she got the bureaucratic equivalent of a shrug emoji.
Comperatore is now urging Trump to use the weight of his office to pressure the agencies involved to cough up more information. Two other rally attendees were seriously wounded that day, Trump took a bullet to the ear, and Crooks was killed by a Secret Service sniper after firing multiple rounds from a rooftop that, again, nobody thought to secure beforehand.
Whether you buy the inside job theory or not, the fact that we are a full year out from one of the most dramatic assassination attempts in modern American history and the official explanation is still basically "we have no idea why he did it" is not exactly a ringing endorsement of anyone's investigative capabilities.
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