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The Secret Service is providing Kimberly Cheatle, its former director who resigned last month, a security detail in an unprecedented effort to protect a former agency chief amid lingering national anger about the myriad security lapses under her watch that led to the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump and the killing of firefighter Corey Comperatore, according to three sources in the Secret Service community. Cheatle has faced an ongoing firestorm of fury from Americans citizens, and even rank-and-file Secret Service special agents and officers, over the agency’s failures that created an opening for shooter Thomas Crooks to open...

Tonight, Donald Trump made his return to Butler, Pennsylvania, where less than three months ago, an assassin tried to take his life ... and came within less than an inch of doing so. You can say what you want about Trump, but the man has onions made of titanium. As Teamsters President Sean O'Brien said when he spoke at the Republican National Convention, Trump is one tough SOB. You're not going to get any argument from us on that point. BUTLER ON SATURDAY—HISTORIC! pic.twitter.com/S8WhiNdWph — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2024 As Twitchy reported earlier today, security was significantly...

BUTLER TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The sister of Corey Comperatore, a firefighter who was fatally shot in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler County in July, remembered her brother ahead of an emotional weekend. Comperatore was in attendance at the July 13 Butler Township rally when gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed on top of the roof of the AGR building and fired eight shots, hitting Trump, killing Comperatore and critically injuring two others. . . . And the former president hasn't forgotten them. He called after his second assassination attempt. "He was very...

Look, this author’s sense of humor can be very dark, very NSFW and very transgressive. But this is beyond the pale. During tonight’s debate, Harris claimed people tended to leave Trump’s rallies because they were bored, and Trump denied this. That led the Onion, which was kind of “live joking” about the debate, to post this: FACT CHECK TRUMP: “People don’t leave my rallies.” TRUE: They’re carried out in body bags. — The Onion (@TheOnion) September 11, 2024 There are no words. Yes, someone was brought out of a Trump rally in a body bag, because someone tried to kill...

Pat Young, the chief of detectives for Beaver County, slammed Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe’s comments in a Senate hearing over the lack of communication on the day of former President Donald Trump’s rally. The rally where Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump, killed Corey Comperatore, and injured James Copenhaver and David Dutch. Every time local law enforcement releases new information, it shows no communication from the Secret Service (USSS), and the agency quickly denies it and pushes back. instance, Pennsylvania SWAT said the USSS never held a briefing with them or others before the rally. The members never spoke...

Outrage over a misspelling on hero ex-fire chief Corey Comperatore’s jacket that former President Donald Trump brought on stage to his Thursday night speech at the Republican National Convention was misplaced — the firehouse itself misspelled it, a source confirmed to The Post....“His last name wouldn’t fit on the coat, so he had the A removed to make it fit,” Aaron Newborn tweeted...

Former President Donald Trump met with Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, a source told ABC News. The meeting took place on Tuesday at the former president's hotel in Milwaukee, the source said. It is unclear what was discussed in the meeting. This comes as Republicans are calling for Cheatle's resignation after the attempted assassination against the former president last Saturday at his Pennsylvania rally. -ABC News' Luke Barr

Security service officials had would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks on their radar for almost an hour before he shot Donald Trump, a new image reveals. A photograph showing the 20-year-old sniper appearing to crawl on the ground while scouring the area was circulated to law enforcement as a suspicious sighting at 5:30pm the Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 14. Around 6.10pm, Crooks took up a position on the slanted roof and shot at Trump from a distance of around 165 yards, wounding him in the ear and killing retired fire chief Corey Comperatore. Two more newly-released images also show a...

SARVER, Pa. — The heartbroken widow of Corey Comperatore, the hero firefighter shot dead by a sniper at a Donald Trump rally, wanted nothing to do with President Biden when he called after the tragedy, she told The Post. “I didn’t talk to Biden,” Helen Comperatore said from her Pennsylvania home 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.”

The member of the crowd killed in the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at his Pennsylvania rally has been identified. Corey Comperatore, the retired fire chief of Buffalo Township, was sitting behind the former president shot and killed by gunman 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. The 50-year-old died a hero as his family revealed he was shielding his young daughter and wife from the gunfire when he was killed. Members of the audience frantically tried to save the father's life in the bleachers in Butler after Crooks opened fire from a rooftop 130 yards away. Family members paid tribute Comperatore who...