Corey Comperatore's widow declined to accept Biden condolence call: Report

By Jen Krausz on
 July 16, 2024

The widow of Corey Comperatore, the man who was killed during an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, told the New York Post that she refused to take a condolence call from President Joe Biden in the aftermath of her husband's death.

“I didn’t talk to Biden,” Helen Comperatore said 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 shooting happened at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. Trump was shot in the ear and taken off the stage a few minutes after the rally started.

The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed, but one of the bullets he got off before being taken out killed Comperatore as he threw himself over the bodies of his wife and daughters to shield them.

“I don’t have any ill will towards Joe Biden. I’m not one of those people that gets involved in politics," she said.

“I support Trump. That’s who I’m voting for, but I don’t have ill will towards Biden,” she added. “He didn’t do anything bad to my husband. A 20-year-old despicable kid did.”