Trump's astonishing act of kindness for families of man killed and two others injured during Pennsylvania assassination attempt | Daily Mail Online
By: Alex Hammer (Mail Online)
But but but Trump
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Donald Trump's campaign has raised more than $4million for the families of the three men either killed and wounded during Saturday's assassination attempt.
As of writing, the number on the Trump-sanctioned GoFundMe was at $4,328,763 - more than four times its initial $1million goal.
All donations will be divvied up by relatives of late firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50; David Dutch, 57; and James Copenhaver, 74, as they either mourn or wait for their loved ones to recover.
The Trump team confirmed the GoFundMe's authenticity to The Hill, as the two living victims are said to be at hospitals in stable condition.
Donald Trump's campaign has raised more than $4million for families of the three men either killed and wounded during Saturday's assassination attempt
All donations will be divvied up by relatives of late firefighter Corey Comperatore (pictured), or the two men wounded in the attack, as they mourn or wait for their loved ones to recover
'President Donald Trump has authorized this account as a place for donations to the supporters and families wounded or killed in today's brutal and horrific assassination attempt,' a description on the highly trafficked webpage reads.
'All donations will be directed to these proud Americans as they grieve and recover.
'May God bless and unite our nation,' it concludes.
More than 358 people proceeded to comment to show their support - as an astronomical 56,5000 people opened up their figurative wallets.
The top donation appeared to be from former Trump donor Steve Wynn, a billionaire former casino operator who has lobbied for the GOP frontrunner relentlessly.
That gift clocked in at an eye-watering $50,000, from a man handpicked by Trump to be finance chair of the Republican National Committee in 2017.
In the comments, onlookers expressed sorrow over the single life lost as a result of the shooting, as well as feelings of empathy for the still suffering victims and their families.
Most singled out Corey Comperatore, a firefighter who was struck by one of 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks' bullets while rushing to protect his family.
He was hailed as 'a brave man, a patriot, and a husband, son and father,' and posthumously promised, 'This country will always remember you.'
Currently recovering are David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, a former marine and retiree, respectively
Most donators singled out Comperatore, a firefighter who was struck by one of 20-year-old gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks' bullets while rushing to protect his family. He is seen in this undated Buffalo Township Fire Company 27 handout photo, as many mourned the loss
All were shot by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who somehow managed to get just 130 yards from where the aspiring president was speaking in Butler. An investigation is underway
Others brought up the two remaining men, both of whom had been critically wounded, but are now said to be in stable condition.
Copenhaver, a retiree who hailed from Moon Township, Pennsylvania, was a grandfather who left behind a wife and two kids.
Dutch, meanwhile, was from New Kensington, and had been an ex Marine
'He has had one surgery and undergoing another this morning,' MCL District 8 vice commandant Matt Popovich wrote in a post to Facebook. 'He is currently in an induced coma.'
The rush of donations come as the Secret Service faces mounting questions over how Crooks managed to get just 130 yards from where the aspiring president was speaking in Butler.
The Butler resident shot Trump in the ear with an AR-style rifle his father purchased legally, and was killed by Secret Service agents within seconds. An investigation is underway.
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Awesome move..................
Wow--nice!
So the former 'president' convicted felon and rapist didn't contribute any of his own money?
Not awesome at all.
Where did you see that? His campaign set it up so I am sure there is a contribution somewhere Negative Nellie
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Prove there wasn't.
No way in hell
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So your claim is that the Trump campaign did NOT set the Go-Fund me page up.
Got it.
I'll go with facts, not wild guesses and innuendo.
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I'll go with facts, not wild guesses and innuendo.
Yes, his campaign, not him. Show me how much he donated - 'I am sure there is a contribution somewhere'
Show me
Just like he donated his salary as POTUS?
But sure he must have donated his salary somewhere....
Have you even read the article here?
Doesn't seem like it, based on your comment.
Please stop spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.
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Amazing. You post a link to a news article that does NOT disprove anything I said...
But sure, it's all a giant conspiracy. Government bureaucrats are lying on behalf of President Trump and kept up the lie after he left office. Blueanon won't let common sense or mere facts get in the way of a dumb ass conspiracy, that's for sure.
Is there nothing from crackpot conspiracy websites somewhere that won't be believed by the extremely gullible?
Ahhh, so so a Trump press release stated that Trump donated over $78,000 from his salary to the agency.
Where is the documentation to back that up? After all it's not like Trump administration or Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephanie Grisham, and Kayleigh McEnany ever lied to the press about Trump........
Google it.
I hope Factcheck isn't too far right for your liking:
False Stories Revive Claim About Trump Salary Donation - FactCheck.org
That took almost a whole minute to look up.
Are you intentionally ignoring the words in the article, or do you not understand them? The confirmation comes from the departments that received the funds.
So prove it.
You're the one making the claim he didn't contribute. Or did you forget about 1.2? You made the claim, you back it up.
Are you intentionally ignoring what I say, or do you not understand it? Trump had so many officials lying for him, that any claim made needs more than another mouthpiece making the claim.
Documentation...
You want Tessylo to prove a negative? Really?
No need to provide proof of something that isn't true
you questioned whether he ever donated his salary. i provided proof as have others, from multiple mainstream organizations who investigated. Because it doesn't fit your conspiracy theory, you keep demanding more. .
Just say it. You think the Biden admin, the Trump admin and all of the mainstream media is conspiring to lie to you that Trump donated his salary. Own your support of a batshit crazy blueanon conspiracy. Don't keep doing the weasley thing by ignoring the proof you've been given and constantly demanding more.
He lent his name to the charity and it is over 5 million. If Joe did the same he might get enough for a Starbucks coffee
... and the income tax deduction was what, 60% of his salary? It was kabuki b.s.!
How did you get to that number?
One of the .gov sites.
Which one?
She needs to back up the claim. She claimed he didn't make any contribution, well, lets see the list of contributors.
Not that it really matters now. In 1.2.24 she just admitted her claim was false.
Hearsay is not proof, especially when it was from people who Trump could have ordered to lie....again.
Documentation...
You're late and wrong again. See 1.2.18.
If it wasn't an election year, they wouldn't have gotten a dime. These are the same people that stole from a cancer charity.
Prove it then.
If it wasn't an election year, there wouldn't have been a fucking rally so no need.
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Who are you talking about?
I'd like to know WHAT he's talking about???
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what is "astonishing" about it ?
My thoughts too.
None of it is his money. What's astonishing about that?
Pretty fair amount of money raised, all going to a great cause.
Man, that shouldn't piss off anyone.
Obviously, the money would be better spent going towards bail money for worthless fucks that burn cities and riots,
Musk = 50,000
Kid Rock = 50,000
Trump Launchpad Strategies = 50,000
And now they are just under 5 million
And Musk paid two installments of $50K
Pocket change for musk.
and will giving 45 million a month to a superpac supporting the campaign.......
Dana White also gave 50k and the UFC kicked in another 50k. Biden admin........0
I guess they spent all their money printing up bullseyes they can no longer use.
You might be missing the point here.
It is an act of generosity to donate anything.
Why try to belittle those who CHOSE to donate?
The naysayers insist on showing us just what they really are.
Hateful folks so focused on all things Trump that they are reduced to bitching about others' donations because they are tied in some way to Trump?
Truthsayers
Donald Trump = 0
Trump has now raised 5.1 million for the victims that Biden caused to happen with his bullseye bullshit.
Biden has done nothing. Which is typical for him.
Yea, i'm sure this kid was on the call with the donors and Biden,
Trump hasn’t raised shit. Is this the first time you’ve heard of GoFundMe?
At least he’s not going around pretending he did something when he has actually done nothing.
Are we sure Joey understands what happened? I don't think he does.
So was Jesus? Mark 12: 42-44
How shocking--a feel-good story about Americans donating to help other Americans out, and STILL people feel the need to bitch and moan about it.
Sad that the hatred of one person colors the entire world for some.
Steve Wynn
And that is more than the entire Bullseye of the Biden administration has donated, worthless selfish fucks that they are.
gee, a generous (by ANY fucking standard) and all some can do is bitch and moan that it wasn't enough?
How much did Soros donate?
How much did Kerry donate?
How much did Hunter's sugar bro donate?
I am happy the families are getting the money.
The idea that this is some astonishing act of kindness by people like Steve Wynn is ridiculous. He probably spends that much on a weekend in Europe.
How much did anyone responsible for putting the Bullseye on trump that led directly to this shooting give?
After reading the comments, I would never have guessed that in a million years.
Beats the FUCK out of nothing, doesn't it?
Ask the families receiving it how pissed THEY are over it.
prove it
So fucking what. How much have you given
‘time to put Trump in the bulls-eye’
Looks like someone decided to follow up and killed 1 and wounded 3, Own it!!!! you would demand it of others if the roles were reversed
You dont know whether or not the shooter ever even heard of Biden saying this, let alone used it for motivation.
The allegation that it motivated him is ENTIRELY made in hindsight.
i just heard of it a half an hour ago. how much have you given ?
$50.00 And it has been around since yesterday. The seeded article was from early this a morning. Perhaps you should try some different news sources rather than all the "but Trump" sites.
excellent
He isn't the one bitching about others donating.
Ok, how much?
And since he hit the teleprompter and not Trump himself, he may have just been another mass shooter looking to make a name for himself at the largest group he could find. There is no evidence he was gunning for Trump other than the fact Trump was there.
probably just as much money as the Go Fund Me page started by Biden and Democrats raised.
Oh, wait.........................................
Sure, if we all pretend that he didn't shoot at Trump, that cockamamie theory might hold a thimbleful of water.
you didnt get yesterdays SNOPES memo i see , they determined that the rumor that trump was hit by teleprompter glass was (DuhDuh Daaaaa) false .
feel free to look it up.
That bullshit excuse wouldn’t work for you if the roles were reversed and you know it. Biden put a bullseye on Trump and he bears the responsibility for it.
What exact whackjob conspiracy site did you get that from?
I really want to know which ones to avoid at all costs!
“There is no evidence he was gunning for Trump other than the fact Trump was there.”
Lol, you’re kidding, right?
I do think he was being serious.
Exactly, the word on the street is that the teleprompter was the actual target. Crooks didn’t like the way the speech was starting out, he wanted Trump to ad-lib it.
LMAO! Good one!
There was no evidence other than the dead bodies that anyone died.................
The kid wasn’t gunning for trump. The steele dossier. The hunter biden laptop. Wth is going on here? ignorance? Lying? Cheating? Gullible? Or just plain stupidity?
you dont even know if the kid even heard that biden had mentioned "bullseye". I see a lot of news and I had not seen it before the shooting.
Right. That's exactly how the Left wing media covered the Giffords shooting. They didn't immediately blame Palin and the Tea Party without evidence tying them together.
No Dems knew if Jared Lee Loughner had seen Gabby in crosshairs but that didn’t stop the vicious accusations from the left.
He made that comment on a phone call to donors. Are you suggesting this kid was listening in?
How many times are you voting for Trump in November ?
Deflection fail. It was published in multiple locations and the video is available.
here is one I found in 10 seconds.
So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” Biden said
Biden has denounced violence and definitely not known for incitement. I believe him when he said Trump should be his bullseye, as in objective/end goal, final conclusion, and not as a place to aim a weapon. Ithought Biden couldn't string two sentences together, but now he's using mind tricks to force unsuspecting dudes to do his assasination bidding's....? yea, okay
Biden has degraded mental capacity, there is no disputing this, it is simply a fact, if the roles were reversed you would be screaming for Trumps head as should anyone. You making excuses for Biden is all anyone needs to see.
Biden said he was going to lower the rhetoric and then told African Americans at a NAACP campaign stop that Trump was going to take away their right to vote. So is he a liar or senile?
If the roles were truly reversed and Biden was a vindictive, loose-cannon, narcissistic traitor who was the only PotUS in US history to use fraud, coercion, lying, and incitement in an attempt to steal a US presidential election and Trump was an old man whose communication skills are below par for a PotUS but is still functional, presidential, and tries to do good for the nation (rather than himself) then I would be voting for Trump.
Your source makes clear that this was communicated to donors. Whether it was covered or not, do you have evidence that this kid was paying attention to this communication or its coverage?
Interesting that there is no mention in that story of his words being construed as “violent rhetoric.”
To be fair, Biden is known for talking about physically fighting people he disagrees with. It’s one of things about him I don’t like. However, this rhetoric with donors is a shitty example.
You posed the scenario and I answered it.
I see a difference to taking Trump outback of the woodshed for fistacuffs, as opposed to being the target, as Trump often made others, by Others, not him. He said he'd pay their legal fee's, and he was most likely lying on that.
I'm pretty sure he heard other Democrats and leftist bottom feeders calling for violence.
So lets hear your pathetic excuses for these.
I do think Trump is the far worse offender, but I can remember, not all that long ago, when our candidates, both Democratic and Republican (Obama, Romney, McCain, Bush, Gore, etc) were willing to say they simply disagreed with the other guy and didn’t have to talk about anybody getting beat up or shot. I miss those days.
Most likely? No, it’s for sure. How many hundreds of people are in prison for doing what he told them to do on January 6? I’ve lost count.
But I am pretty sure I know how many of them had their legal fees paid by Trump. Zero.
I'd like to know how much the former 'president' 'donated'
who, the guy who has everythingpaid for by the suckers
According to some folks 'I'm sure there's a contribution in there somewhere'
lol
Why?
According to you, he didn't. Are you admitting you have absolutely no idea of what you blather on about?
What kind of people would even bother to bitch and moan about this, really?
How empty the lives must be to whine about people donating money to a good cause.
Almost worth the ticket it would cost to answer this.
And he was attacked on this site for setting it up. That’s how rabid bluenanon is.
No shit.
Never saw such inanity about people donating their own money, coming from some who donated nothing but still want to bitch about those who did.
Maybe JR has been right all along, we live in a degraded America, and some of the comments here are irrefutable proof.
I'm not attacking anybody. I just fail to find it "astonishing".
I could not find the fund mentioned in the article
but a separate fund for Alisyn Comperatore with a goal of $7K for the funeral has already raised $ 1.1 million
GoFundMe campaign has been created
Interesting - so is this article and source false?
Not even a LITTLE bit.
You could always look at post 7.2.
Or do an internet search for yourself.
Not at all. It's better than any rally or convention that Trump could ever have dreamed of.
Now lets see how much money actually makes to the victims.
Trump Campaign Launches GoFundMe After Shooting (msn.com)
Billionaire Ken Griffin Donates $100,000 To Victims Of Trump Rally Shooting (forbes.com)
Trump-Backed GoFundMe for Rally Shooting Victims Raises Over $2.4M - Business Insider
Trump campaign's GoFundMe for shooting victims raises more than $1 million - Live Updates - POLITICO
Ken Griffin Joins Donors to GoFundMe for Victims of Trump Attack - Bloomberg
Thank you but I did not say I couldn't find news articles about the fund.
If you check, only Politico and Bloomberg actually provided the link.
I used the non politicized GFM site, thanks.
I certainly hope this account will be carefully audited to prevent skimming.
Although it is gratifying to see such generosity, unfortunately money doesn't buy a life, nor does it in the USA have any control over the proliferation of guns and gun violence.
if it is any consolation Buzz , i have seen one article since the attempt , calling for the banning of AR-`15s .
unfortunately it will get about as much attention as a canary fart in a pet store full of kittens .
Of course. In America a curtailing of the gun proliferation has about the same chance as the men of America agreeing to be castrated. I can hear it now: "You'll have to take my balls before you take my gun." It's all about "manhood". It's all about acceptance of and preparedness for the military.
im sitting here smiling , mods are going "oh shit ", get use to it mods , my guardian angel has , so what if im on my 5th one ..... this month .
lose my balls to own guns ....... making a GRETA face
laughing now ...
realized i already had a vasectomy .....
A vasectomy only traps your tadpoles from escaping.
Without yer balls you would gradually become Marsha from Wyoming, lol.
yeah i know but if you ask most guys , they count that as losing them , i know an old hand who had a horse kick him between the uprights , he was old , told them just cut them off because thatswhat he would do to his livestock with this type of injury , they refused and tried to convince him that even if he wasnt using them , he still needed what they produced .
they finally convinced him to let them operate to save them , they told him if they didnt he would end up riding side saddle and spending more on calico during shopping trips . that convinced him , his wifes fabric bill was already killing him .
i always thought i was more of a Mary anne ......
"Balls!!!" said the Queen. "If I had them I'd be King."
Uh, yeah, whatever. That’s horseshit. GoFundMe doesn’t require any special authorization from Donald Trump. Regular people set these things up every day.
Yeah? How much money did Trump the Billionaire personally donate? I bet it’s a number that - ironically - rhymes with “hero.”
Yeah, he's so magnanimous otherwise,
I found the page. You can see the list of top donors. Trump is not among them.
How unsurprising.
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Trump has a documented history of engaging in charity fraud. Be aware.
From 2019:
What kind of a 'man', is found not worthy of being affiliated with a Charity ?
He supposedly used funds to purchase a bust, of himself. And this 'man' is going to be voted for by millions of Americans....how low can this country affordably go...?
I think we know.
Donations to victims of the shooting is a wonderful thing, but anyone who would trust Trump with their money is asking to get ripped off.
If Trump gets elected it's going to be at a huge cost to the country and to all of us.
Some Republican convention delegates are wearing fake bandages on their ears to show solidarity with Trump. The cult is alive and well.
It's pretty common. You see a lot of progressives pretending to not be able to read and making up hysterical slurs about republicans to show solidarity with Biden.
LOL
They look good with toilet paper on their head. I've seen a few of them on TV tonight.
what i think the process progressives go through to prepare to tell others they are wrong .
me dealing with progressives lately .
Marco Rubio just said God saved Trump's life. It must be contagious. I wonder what the widow of the firefighter thinks when she hears this.
“I wonder what the widow of the firefighter thinks when she hears this.”
i agree with ya on that.
I really dislike the questionable source and some of the language used.
case in point. Mr. Copenhaver is recovering in hospital but this is in the article a bit prematurely.
I agree the GFM fund is unremarkable, not astonishing at all, it was a decent thing to do and worth it's gold in benefiting Trump.
Some of the 'comedians' here shouldn't quit their day jobs.
Donald lent his name in order to get money for the people/families of those that died or were injured. It is now over 5 million dollars.
That Bastard.