Widow, daughters of firefighter who died protecting his family at Trump rally vow to get justice
Former President Trump assassination attempt victim Corey Comperatore’s wife and daughters sat down for their first formal interview since Comperatore was fatally shot at the former president’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13.
Comperatore, a 50-year-old retired volunteer fire chief, was the only victim of the assassination attempt against the former president to die of his injuries.
“He definitely was a hero. He saved his wife. He saved his child, and he was just the best guy,” Comperatore’s wife of 29 years, Helen Comperatore, told WTAE.
Helen added that her husband was a “wonderful man,” and she wants the world to remember him for who he was, not just “as the man that was shot at the rally.”
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“Just remember Corey as he was — a great man who was a great father, great husband.”
His daughter Kaylee reflected on security failures at the rally that led to her father’s death.
“[B]lood is on their hands.”
“I just want [security] to know I really think my dad’s blood is on their hands,” she told WTAE, “and I hope they wake up every day thinking about what they took from our family, because we have to wake up every day and see that image of our father in our head, and no child should ever have to see that.”
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Comperatore’s other daughter, Allyson, remembered the moment her father used his body to shield hers from gunfire.
“I was the one that my dad threw down. As he was throwing me down, that was when he was shot, and he ended up falling on to me,” she said. “And I don’t remember hearing any other shots … In that moment, I was trying to take care of him. I was really confused when he was on me.
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“I had turned around, I went, ‘Dad’ — he fell down, and that’s when I started screaming, and I was trying to keep him from bleeding,” she continued.
Kaylee also remembered screaming and initially thinking she was in a dream.
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“And then you realize it’s not a dream, and you feel like your whole world is just over,” she said.
Comperatore served 10 years in the U.S. Army Reserve, according to his obituary. He loved to go fishing every weekend, rain or shine, and he loved his family, Helen told WTAE.
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Trump commemorated the fallen firefighter at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, a week after the assassination attempt, with Comperatore’s firefighter jacket and helmet displayed on stage.
Helen told WTAE Trump’s tribute to her husband at the RNC “was a big honor.”
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“All day at the rally, my husband kept saying, ‘He’s gonna call me up on stage. You’re gonna hear him. He’s gonna say Corey, get on up here!’ He was just joking, obviously,” she explained.
When Trump paid tribute to Comperatore on stage, his family thought, “There’s his moment. He’s up on stage,” Helen said.
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The Comperatore family has hired counsel to help them get justice for their beloved husband and father.
“I want justice for my husband, and I’m going to get it,” Helen said.
Personal finance expert sounds alarm on Harris’ plan to deal with grocery prices
Personal finance expert Dave Ramsey joined “The Ingraham Angle” to explain why VP Kamala Harris’ economic plan will not work. Ramsey reacted to the Democratic presidential nominee’s proposal to implement federal price controls in order to stop “price gouging” on groceries.
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Harris is expected to roll out her economic plan Friday during a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina. Early indications are it will have a progressive populist thrust, including attacks on corporate “price gouging,” which conservative critics say is a smokescreen to deflect from the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of inflation.
In advance of Harris’ first formal policy speech of her presidential campaign Friday, her team announced Harris plans to call for first-of-its-kind federal controls on food and grocery “price gouging” by corporations.
The proposal would give authority to the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general to impose harsh penalties on companies for setting excessively high prices.
“There’s a big difference between fair pricing in competitive markets and excessive prices unrelated to the costs of doing business,” the Harris campaign said shortly after announcing the policy proposal.
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Son of legendary rock band’s drummer reportedly accused of killing girlfriend
The son of Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford is accused of killing his girlfriend after her body was found this week off the side of a highway in Nevada, according to police and media reports.
Brent Clifford, who is facing a murder charge after remains believed to be of Patricia Portella-Wright, 48, were found Thursday off Mt. Rose Highway in Washoe County, Nevada, is also a person of interest in a homicide in Reno, the Placer County Sheriff’s Office says.
“There is apparent foul play involved,” Placer County Sgt. David Smith said Thursday in relation to Portella-Wright’s case, adding that investigators have “worked tirelessly over the last week to bring closure to Patricia’s family and locate Patricia’s body.”
Clifford is one of three children of Doug Clifford, the drummer for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band Creedence Clearwater Revival, TMZ is reporting, citing public records.
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The Placer County Sheriff’s Office says Portella-Wright of Kings Beach, California, was previously last seen on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 4 before being reported missing this past Friday.
“Through investigation we obtained information that led us to the area of Mt. Rose Highway. Using a drone we were able to locate the body of a female down a steep embankment,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook Thursday.
“During our investigation we identified her boyfriend, Brent Clifford, as a person of interest in her disappearance. On Wednesday, August 14, 2024 Clifford was arrested in Portola [California]. He has been booked into the Placer County jail on a murder charge,” it added.
The motive for the alleged killing remains unclear.
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Jail records show that as of Friday morning, Clifford, who is 55, is being held without bail.
“According to the Reno Police Department, Clifford is a person of interest in a Reno homicide. The male victim in that homicide was discovered on the morning of Sunday, August 11th,” the Placer County Sheriff’s Office also said. “The red 2003 Chevrolet Blazer that belonged to the homicide victim was found in the same area Clifford was arrested in Portola.”
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Investigators say they are waiting for the Washoe County Coroner’s Office to confirm the identity of the remains.
Gov Tim Walz’s administration deletes controversial policy from its website
Under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s watch during the COVID-19 pandemic, Minnesota experienced a devastating impact among its most vulnerable, as 80% of COVID-related deaths in the state occurred among residents of long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living centers.
Critics have taken aim at a policy, also practiced in other states during the pandemic, to allow patients with COVID into nursing homes after they were discharged from hospitals.
The policy in place is no longer available on the public-facing Minnesota government website and had to be acquired by the Wayback Machine.
“Patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 who still require transmission-based precautions for COVID-19 can be transferred to congregate living facilities,” the policy, acquired by the Wayback Machine, said.
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“It is the recommendation of MDH that patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 can be discharged when clinically indicated and neither discontinuation of transmission-based precautions nor the establishment of two negative COVID-19 tests is required prior to hospital discharge,” it continued.
At one point, around May 2020, over 80% of the state’s COVID-19 deaths were among residents of long-term care facilities.
Despite this data, Walz doubled down on the policy after the fact.
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“This was what everyone was doing. This was not a mistake. It wasn’t like no one thought about this. There was complexity in how you deal with this,” the Democratic governor said in May 2020 while the devastation was ongoing.
According to a report from the Star Tribune, nursing homes perceived they were deprioritized in terms of being provided with personal protective equipment (PPE), which was critical to protecting both staff and patients from getting infected.
The state’s Department of Health “informed providers in April that its emergency stockpile of N95 masks was reserved for ‘hospital settings only’ and that they should wait until their supplies had dwindled to ‘zero to three days’ before requesting more gear,” the report said.
“As an alternative, the state encouraged nursing homes to consider using nonmedical cloth masks and to ‘connect with local communities for donations,’’ it continued.
The issue was widespread during the early stages of the COVID pandemic.
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“Nursing home residents aren’t getting half of our resources or half of our attention, yet they account for roughly half the deaths,” David Grabowski, a health care policy professor at Harvard Medical School, told The Atlantic in April 2020. “We don’t value their lives as much as other people’s.”
Many families complained to local media that they weren’t notified about COVID-positive cases in nursing homes and never got to say their goodbyes. Walz’s administration discouraged families from taking their loved ones out of nursing homes and bringing them home for visits.
“MDH strongly recommends against families bringing residents of long-term care facilities to their homes during this time. This recommendation applies whether residents have previously been diagnosed with COVID-19 or have recently tested negative for COVID-19,” Minnesota’s Department of Health’s executive order 20-99 said.
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Other states have faced similar criticism over their nursing home policies.
In 2020, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed New York nursing homes to accept patients believed to have COVID-19 – a decision that subjected his administration to fierce criticism. Cuomo’s policy did not allow nursing homes to inquire about a patient’s COVID status when making their decision to accept patients.
‘Reagan’ star doesn’t hold back in calling out censorship of new conservative film’s content
“Reagan” star Dennis Quaid responded on Tuesday to Facebook’s explanation for why it was throttling efforts to boost marketing of his new biopic about the 40th president, suggesting it didn’t hold water.
At first, Facebook reportedly wouldn’t allow the movie’s marketing team to boost a post with Quaid’s picture promoting the movie through a paid advertisement. Also, Facebook suspended the movie’s official account on at least two occasions over clips it posted of Quaid discussing the movie in media appearances.
The marketers said they were told by Facebook that the post “mentions politicians or is about sensitive issues that could influence public opinion, how people vote and may impact the outcome of an election or pending legislation.” But, as Quaid pointed out to Fox News’ Trace Gallagher, Reagan died in 2004 and certainly isn’t eligible for another term in office.
“It seems to be automated that way for some reason. No one’s responsible for that,” Quaid said. “This happened several times, actually, and we were suspended two days in a row … The last time I heard, Reagan hasn’t been on the ballot in 40 years and not only that, he’s not even eligible to run because he served two terms.”
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A Facebook spokesperson told Newsweek Tuesday, “While there are no restrictions on this page that would prevent the admins from posting, we did identify a handful of ads from this account that were incorrectly rejected. This happened because our automated systems mistakenly determined that content about President Reagan required prior authorization in accordance with our policies for ads about Social Issues, Elections or Politics. This was a mistake and the restriction on the ads has been lifted.”
Quaid told Gallagher he was confused by Facebook’s conduct.
“I am baffled by it to tell you the truth because it was banned and they haven’t even seen the film,” he said. “So it seems like they don’t want other people to see the film either, I guess. But, you know, we will set up a screening for them any time and they can see for themselves. The movie is about America and the ’80s and Ronald Reagan, his life. It’s about fighting communism.”
Quaid also told podcast giant Joe Rogan this week that he’s all too aware of social media, in his view, trying to cancel conservative viewpoints.
During the latest episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the actor talked to the podcast host about how Facebook has appeared to have been censoring content about his upcoming movie about iconic Republican President Ronald Reagan.
“Censorship is happening to us through Facebook,” Quaid told Rogan in the episode that aired Thursday.
After a lengthy discussion about how conservative views are silenced by the media, the actor explained how Facebook seems to be targeting ads and blocking media that promotes his new film, claiming the content “is an attempt to sway an election.”
Quaid expressed his disbelief over the accusation, telling his host, “I mean, the last time I heard, you know, Reagan was on the ballot 40 years ago.”
“Do you think if you made a positive Obama movie, it would a be ‘sway an election?,’” Rogan asked.
The actor replied, saying that an Obama film was made in 2020, and it didn’t seem to bother anybody.
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The “Reagan” star flipped the accusation of election meddling back around, adding, “Just the act of banning or censoring that material – as you were talking about – is an attempt to sway an election.”
Quaid did acknowledge that after he and the film’s production team sent a letter to Facebook complaining about the targeting, the big tech platform admitted it was a “mistake,” though he didn’t appear too convinced by the excuse.
“Since then, Facebook has said they made a mistake. They said that yesterday because we put out a letter to it in an article on Newsweek. And they said they made a mistake. It was – their automatic systems had detected it.”
“Oh, how convenient,” Rogan replied sarcastically, before going on to suggest that “rogue” far-left employees might have had something to do with the “mistake.”
“Reagan” will be released in theaters nationwide Aug. 30.
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WWE great settles NBA GOAT debate between Jordan and LeBron with 2 words
The debate over the NBA’s greatest player of all-time continues to be a hot topic. Michael Jordan and LeBron James are typically the two names that sports fans bring up during discussions about the best player in history.
When the conversation surrounding the league’s GOAT was recently mentioned to WWE star Randy Orton, he made it clear who he does not support.
“F— LeBron,” Orton said in a video posted to the WWE’s YouTube channel during a sit down with Cody Rhodes.
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Rhodes brought up the James vs. Jordan debate as he transitioned to a question about WWE’s GOAT.
“How do you feel knowing you’re in that conversation?” Rhodes asked Orton.
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“I don’t think there is a GOAT… I like the Mount Rushmore. I like who’s your top 5, top 10, even top 20. But, the GOAT, I don’t think he exists,” Orton responded.
Orton has 14 world title reigns. “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair and John Cena sit atop the WWE world title reigns all-time list with 16 reigns each. However, Orton’s 14 reigns leads all active wrestlers.
Orton did not outright name Jordan as the NBA’s GOAT, which makes it unclear whether he is not fond of the Los Angeles Lakers star or believes the Chicago Bulls legend was simply a superior player.
Jordan won six NBA championships, which were a product of two three-peats, during his historic run with the Bulls. He is also a six-time NBA Finals MVP. He won two Olympic gold medals during his time with the USA basketball men’s national team.
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By comparison, James is a four-time NBA champion and has been named an NBA Finals MVP on four occasions. He broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record last year. James earned his third Olympic gold medal last week when Team USA defeated France at the Summer Games in Paris.
Multimillion-dollar plot targeting Elvis Presley’s family busted by feds
Authorities arrested a 53-year-old Missouri woman on Friday for allegedly attempting to defraud Elvis Presley’s family out of millions of dollars.
Lisa Jeanine Findley was charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. She was behind the plot that put Graceland up for foreclosure in May, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
“As alleged in the complaint, the defendant orchestrated a scheme to conduct a fraudulent sale of Graceland, falsely claiming that Elvis Presley’s daughter had pledged the historic landmark as collateral for a loan that she failed to repay before her death,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “As part of the brazen scheme, we allege that the defendant created numerous false documents and sought to extort a settlement from the Presley family. Now she is facing federal charges. The Criminal Division and its partners are committed to holding fraudsters to account.”
NFL wife gets candid about sudden rise to fame after her talent caught the eye of celebs
Prior to last season, Kristin Juszczyk was just the wife of an NFL player. But now, the two have become a celebrity couple.
Her husband, Kyle, is a fan favorite for the San Francisco 49ers, and she hit the big time again when her self-made designs began to go viral. So viral, she even had to decline a request from Vice President Harris during Super Bowl prep because of how busy she was.
Juszczyk said she began making her own designs when she got “so sick” of wearing the “rotation of four shirts” to her husband’s games.
“If I can’t buy it, I’m going to try to create it,” she told Fox News Digital in a recent interview.
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But not only did she create clothes, she wound up creating somewhat of a social media empire. After her designs received tons of clicks on social media, she hit it big when she made a custom jacket for Taylor Swift, who dates Travis Kelce.
Last month, she even hooked up Livvy Dunne with a USA-themed jacket to support the gymnastics team and the rest of the American athletes.
But giving her ideas to the world, she says, was a “leap of faith.”
“I had never made anything for anybody else, so I was always hesitant because I’m a perfectionist at my heart, and [it would bring] it to a whole other level if I were handing it to somebody else. … But I finally took that leap of faith last year, and it’s been such a fun process.”
Fullbacks aren’t exactly the most popular players on a football roster, but Juszczyk is apparently one-of-a-kind, and the couple now boasts millions of followers on social media.
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Surely, Mrs. Juszczyk didn’t initially plan on being a celebrity of her own. But her husband’s fan base has made it an easy transition.
“He’s a fan of many talents, but it’s always fun for fans to show more love to him, see different avenues he’s interested in. 49er fans are the absolute best, so we’re super lucky to be out here.”
The fame has helped the couple spread the word about Purina Treats to help promote healthy living for pet pups en route to their $10,000 sweepstakes.
“Kyle and I are a very competitive couple. We compete in most facets of life, honestly. It was really cool to be able to partner with Purina Treats to promote other dog owners to go outside and bond with their pups and promote competition as well.
“The highlight of our day is coming home to our dogs. There’s nothing more grounding than to open the door and see these faces that are so happy to see you.”
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Juszczyk pleads that she is “no professional” but that’s the beauty of it all.
“I’m learning every single day. I love a challenge. I love being able to pick up new things in life and learn it. This is something that, no matter how long I do it, I’ll always be learning.”