Trump calls widow of firefighter who died protecting his family: ‘He was very kind’
The widow of the volunteer firefighter who was shot and killed over the weekend at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania says the former president called her and was “very kind,” a report says. Helen Comperatore wrote on Facebook that Trump phoned her on Tuesday, three days after her husband Corey was struck with gunfire while trying to protect his family during the campaign event in Butler, according to the New York Post. “He was very kind and said he would continue to call me in the days and weeks ahead,” the widow reportedly wrote. “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.” Helen Comperatore told the New York Post on Monday that her husband’s final words were “get down!” LIVE UPDATES: TRUMP’S SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION UNDER INVESTIGATION FOLLOWING ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT “He’s my hero,” Helen Comperatore said to the newspaper from her home in Sarver, Pennsylvania. “He just said, ‘get down!’ That was the last thing he said.” “Me and the kids were all there as a family,” she added. “He was just excited. It was going to be a nice day with the family. Corey Comperatore, 50, was the former fire chief for the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company. The department now has a memorial set up outside its firehouse featuring Comperatore’s uniform to honor who they described as a “brother, son, husband, father and friend.” LAST WORDS OF ‘HERO’ FIREFIGHTER WHO DIED AT TRUMP RALLY SHOOTING REVEALED Helen Comperatore also said President Biden tried to call her family following the incident but “I didn’t want to talk to him. “I didn’t talk to Biden,” she said. “My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.” “I don’t have any ill-will towards Joe Biden,” Comperatore added. “I’m not one of those people that gets involved in politics. I support Trump, that’s who I’m voting for but I don’t have ill-will towards Biden.” Helen Comperatore has described the shooter at the rally, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, as a “despicable kid.”
Kamala Harris says Trump picked JD Vance to be ‘rubber stamp’ for former president’s ‘extreme agenda’
Vice President Kamala Harris said in a newly released video that former President Trump selected Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate to be a “rubber stamp” for the Republican White House hopeful’s “extreme agenda.” This comes ahead of Vance’s acceptance speech on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump, now formally the Republican nominee for president, announced Vance as his pick for vice president on Monday. “Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda,” Harris said in the video. “Make no mistake: JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country,” she continued. Harris and Vance spoke by phone after Vance’s nomination in a brief and respectful conversation, Fox News’ Alexis McAdams reports, after Harris left a congratulatory voicemail. KAMALA HARRIS CONGRATULATES JD VANCE, HOPES ‘THAT THE TWO CAN MEET’ AT VP DEBATE Harris also criticized Vance for saying in an interview with ABC News earlier this year that he would not have certified the 2020 election until states submitted pro-Trump electors if he were vice president at the time, noting in the interview that he believes unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 election. “Unlike Mike Pence, Vance said he would have carried out Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 election,” Harris said. The vice president further pointed to comments Vance made during his 2022 Senate campaign, when he said he supported a national abortion ban at 15 weeks, with some exceptions such as protecting the life of the mother. Harris also cited in her video Vance’s vote last month against a Democrat-led bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF. The bill was blocked by Republicans in the Senate. “He supports a national abortion ban and voted against protecting IVF,” Harris said of Vance. Harris also referenced Project 2025, a controversial initiative organized by conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation and that was authored by a number of conservatives, including some former Trump administration officials. Project 2025 offers right-wing policy recommendations for Trump should he win the presidency, including replacing civil service employees with Trump loyalists, abolishing the Department of Education, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI programs, cutting funding for Medicaid and Medicare, rejecting abortion as health care and infusing the government with Christian values. TRUMP PICKS JD VANCE AS RUNNING MATE AS HE BECOMES GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Trump has sought to distance himself from the initiative, which has been criticized as an authoritarian and Christian nationalist plan that would undermine civil liberties, saying he knows nothing about it and that parts of it are “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” “And if elected, [Vance] will help implement the extreme Project 2025 plan for a second Trump term, which would target critical programs like Head Start and Medicare,” Harris said. “But we are not going to let that happen.”
Trump running mate Vance to deliver ‘the most important speech’ of his career at Republican convention
MILWAUKEE, WI – The spotlight will shine firmly on GOP vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance on day three of the Republican National Convention. Vance on Wednesday night will address the roughly 2,400 delegates and thousands of other attendees packed inside Milwaukee’s Fiserv Arena, and the millions of Americans watching the GOP convention from home, in his first speech since former President Trump on Monday named the 39-year-old senator from Ohio as his running mate. “This is clearly the most important speech of JD Vance’s career,” Dan Eberhart, an oil drilling chief executive officer and a prominent Republican donor and bundler who’s attending the convention, told Fox News. Trump, in making his greatly anticipated and high-stakes running mate announcement as the GOP convention kicked off in swing-state Wisconsin’s largest city, will now share the ticket with one of his top supporters in the Senate and a one-time Trump critic who has transformed into a leading America First ally. TRUMP ANNOUNCES JD VANCE AS HIS RUNNING MATE The former president and Vance teamed up on Monday and Tuesday nights in the family box above the floor of the GOP convention. Vance, a former venture capitalist and the author of the bestselling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” before running for elective office, on Wednesday night will appear on the podium to tell his story. A source in Vance’s political orbit told Fox News to “expect the speech to focus heavily on his bio and incredible life story and how that ties into the America First Agenda.” LIVE UPDATES: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION That story began with Vance growing up in a working-class family in a small city in southwestern Ohio. His parents divorced when he was young, and as his mother struggled for years with drug and alcohol abuse, Vance was raised in part by his maternal grandparents. After high school graduation, Vance enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and served in the Iraq. He later graduated from The Ohio State University and then earned a law degree at Yale University. Vance, who lives in Cincinnati, moved to San Francisco after law school and worked as a principal in a venture capital firm owned by billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who later became a major financial supporter of Vance’s successful 2022 campaign for the Senate. Before running for Senate, Vance grabbed national attention after “Hillbilly Elegy” – which tells his story of growing up in a struggling steel mill city and his roots in Appalachian Kentucky – became a New York Times bestseller and was made into a Netflix film. The story spotlighted the values of many working-class Americans who became supporters of Trump’s policies. Vance was a vocal critic of Trump when the former president first ran for the White House in the 2016 cycle. However, Vance eventually supported Trump, praising the former president’s tenure in the White House, and in a Fox News interview in 2021, he apologized for his earlier criticism of Trump. Trump’s endorsement of Vance days before the 2022 GOP Senate primary boosted him to victory in a crowded, competitive and combustible race. “I think the American people are going to love to hear JD’s story of overcoming adversity as a young man, becoming a Marine and serving his country in uniform in Iraq, and going on to becoming a business leader, and now a successful elected leader as well,” fellow veteran and fellow Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas told Fox News on Tuesday. Eberhart, asked what Vance needs to accomplish in his address, said that what the senator “needs to do today is show America who he is, why he supports Donald Trump, and why Americans should support Donald Trump.” Democrats, in a taste of things to come, on Monday wasted no time in criticizing Vance. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP President Biden told reporters that Vance was “a clone of Trump on the issues.” The president’s campaign argued that Vance was selected because he would “do what [former Vice President] Mike Pence wouldn’t on January 6: bend over backwards to enable Trump and his extreme MAGA agenda, even if it means breaking the law and no matter the harm to the American people.” Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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McCarthy says Trump showing ‘real leadership’ to the world after assassination attempt
FIRST ON FOX: MILWAUKEE —President Trump is showing “real leadership” to “not just America, but the world” following the attempt on his life over the weekend — drawing a stark contrast between himself and President Biden, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said. McCarthy spoke with Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention, nothing that while JD Vance is a strong pick for vice president, this election is “all about Trump and he is stronger than he has ever been.” “Seeing President Trump, talking to him the day after the shooting, I mean, it is unbelievable that he is alive,” McCarthy said. “I think just in that sheer moment he taught, not just America, but the world, that he is a real leader.” McCarthy told Fox News Digital that in the past several days following the assassination attempt against Trump, he has spoken with numerous world leaders who have called to check in on the former president. SCALISE TO FOCUS ON TRUMP’S COMPASSION IN RNC SPEECH, SAYS ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT BROUGHT BACK 2017 ‘EMOTIONS’ “They say he showed real leadership, and that makes America stronger, and makes the world safer in the same instance,” McCarthy said. “And then when they look at the times of President Biden tripping, falling over a bike — that showed a weakness in America.” This week, less than 48 hours after the attempt on his life, Trump announced that Sen. JD Vance of Ohio is his pick for vice president. Trump made the highly anticipated announcement on his Truth Social account, amid months of speculation of who his running mate would be. But McCarthy doesn’t think it matters. “Not taking anything away from JD, but I don’t think a VP is going to matter in this race,” McCarthy told Fox News Digital. “This is all about Trump and Trump is stronger than he has ever been.” McCarthy, though, said the Trump-Vance ticket is an “interesting” one, that can draw in non-traditional Republicans. “Just the history of JD and his life experience—being raised by his grandparents, joining the Marines, coming up from nothing, making something of himself, being an author, understanding the Appalachians—that is new for us,” McCarthy said. “But President Trump has always reached out to a lot of Independents and Democrats and I think they know the contrast and the policies that they had under Trump and what world they lived in under President Trump and now President Biden. I think this will be a big night for us in November.” VANCE, HARRIS DISCUSS DEBATE IN ‘BRIEF AND RESPECTFUL’ FIRST PHONE CONVERSATION SINCE VP NOD As for Biden, McCarthy said he has watched the president “utilize the assassination attempt to try to reset his campaign and solidify his nomination.” “He is even trying to move it forward ahead of time by having the vote for the nomination early so that there’s not a fight at the convention,” McCarthy explained. “For the first time, I see the Republicans more unified at any given time.” McCarthy reflected on his relationship with Biden while serving as speaker of the House. “Biden never met with Republicans, and the rhetoric you saw in his State of the Union — that wasn’t a speech to unite the country — he has been this way the whole time,” McCarthy said. “And if you just watch President Trump and President Biden in the last week, one is angry and the other is very somber and uniting and that is President Trump uniting.” McCarthy said he has seen Biden “lashing out.” “He has this anger in him — I’ve seen it individually and what I’ve warned people about is the fact that this is a different Joe Biden and I think it is all coming to fruition,” McCarthy told Fox News Digital. McCarthy said the divide in the Democrat Party over Biden’s re-election campaign following his disastrous debate performance last month is a “Watergate moment for the Democrats.” “Who knew what when? They wouldn’t allow the president to go talk to people, they knew the cognitive problems he had,” McCarthy said. “I have been talking about this for more than a year and they have been attacking me over it, and now it has all been shown.” McCarthy reminded that Democrats “changed their own party rules so that nobody could run against him. They changed when the primary would be, starting in South Carolina.” McCarthy added: “They did everything they could to hide the fact of why they now want him to be removed.”