( NYPost )
“Get down!”
Those were the final words of volunteer firefighter and father-of-two Corey Comperatore as he shielded his family from a sniper who opened fire on former President Donald Trump, his grieving widow told The Post.
“He’s my hero,” Helen Comperatore said from her Sarver, Pennsylvania home on Monday. “He just said, ‘get down!’ That was the last thing he said.”
Helen said President Joe Biden tried to call to console the family after the shooting, but she wanted none of it.
“I didn’t talk to Biden. I didn’t want to talk to him,” Helen Comperatore said. “My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.”
Corey Comperatore, 50, a former chief of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company, was with his family at Trump’s rally in nearby Butler on Saturday when deranged sniper Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire, grazing the former president, wounding two others — and killing Compoeratore.
Helen Comperatore said the childhood sweethearts were on the verge of celebrating their 29th wedding anniversary when the family headed to the rally to support their candidate.
“Me and the kids were all there as a family,” she said. “He was just excited. It was going to be a nice day with the family.
“It was a bad day,” she added.
“He was a very loving husband,” she said.
“He was a simple man but he put his wife and kids first all the time. I did nothing here. I didn’t lift a finger. He did everything.”
On Saturday, he died protecting his family, Helen said.
Trump was grazed in the ear as screams rang out, killing Comperatore and wounding two others — David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 54, who were critically injured but expected to recover.
Helen said she’s been overwhelmed by the support since the tragedy. A GoFundMe set up by her family has raised $990,000.
“The donations that are coming in across the community and across the country, it’s more than I can even imagine” she said. “It’s more than I can fathom, but he deserves it all. He deserves everything.”
She said the family has not heard from Trump — but is steadfast Biden isn’t welcome.
“I don’t have any ill-will towards Joe Biden,” she said. “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.
“He didn’t do anything to my husband. A 20-year-old despicable kid did.”
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