Leaked audio appears to reveal Donald Trump joking about Helen Comperatore, the widow of firefighter Corey Comperatore who was killed by the assassin who targeted Trump’s Pennsylvania rally.
The leak comes ahead of Trump’s return to the Butler, Pennsylvania location where an attempt on his life was made and Comperatore was murdered this coming weekend.
Speaking in Aspen, Colorado on August 10, Trump was talking about how he’d presented Helen Comperatore with $1 million and raised money for the family on Gofundme when he told a joke.
‘So they’re going to get millions of dollars but the woman, the wife, this beautiful woman, I handed her the cheque – we handed her the cheque – and she said, ‘This is so nice, and I appreciate it, but I’d much rather have my husband.’ Now, I know some of the women in this room wouldn’t say the same,’ he said to laughs.
Trump then called out some of the members of the club who might be a target of the joke but made a point to exclude Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who was in attendance.
‘I know at least four couples. There are four couples, Governor [Abbott], that I know and you’re not one of them. At least four couples here would have been thrilled, actually.’
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Trump actually told the joke before at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania just weeks after the shooting.
The fundraiser is believed to have raised over $12 million for Trump’s re-election campaign, The Guardian reports.
Trump promised Tuesday to turn his return to the site of his attempted assassination into a celebration of the life of Comperatore.
He will appear before supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
‘It’s going to be a really big event, and it’s going to be something,’ Trump told reporters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ‘We’ll celebrate the life of Corey.’
