Widow of hero firefighter Corey Comperatore killed at Trump rally shooting reveals ex-prez called her: ‘He was very kind’
The grieving widow of the hero firefighter killed during a failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump said the former president called her Tuesday to offer his condolences.
“He was very kind and said he would continue to call me in the days and weeks ahead,” Helen Comperatore wrote of Trump on her private Facebook page.
“I told him the same thing I told everyone else. He left this world a hero and God welcomed him in. He did not die in vain that day,” she said of her husband, according to a screenshot of the post.
Her husband, Corey Comperatore, was shot dead by a sniper at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday.
Trump’s call comes after the widow refused to take a call from President Biden following her husband’s slaying.
“I didn’t talk to Biden,” she told The Post on Monday.
“I didn’t want to talk to him. My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.”
She added that she has no “ill will” toward the president but is a full-fledged Trump supporter.
Her husband, a volunteer firefighter and father of two girls, was sitting in the bleachers with his family during the rally when 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks began shooting from a nearby rooftop.
The 50-year-old dad shouted “Get down!” and used his body to shield his family from the gunfire before he was fatally struck by a bullet, his heartbroken wife told The Post from her Sarver, Pa., home Monday.
A bullet also grazed Trump’s ear while he stood at the podium, and two other rally-goers were injured before Secret Service agents shot and killed Crooks.
Trump had not reached out to the family prior to Tuesday as he continued on the campaign trail and announced his VP pick.
