Trump to return to Butler, Pa. for Oct. 5 rally on site of first assassination attempt

"After not one, but two attempts on his life in the past nine weeks, President Trump is more determined than ever to see his mission through to the end," the campaign said in a statement.

By Ben Whedon

Published: September 25, 2024 3:22pm

Former President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Butler, Pa., in early October on the same ground where a gunman shot him in the ear in the first assassination attempt against him.

The rally will take place Oct. 5 and see Trump honor Corey Comperatore, the man whom gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks killed during the incident, the campaign confirmed.

"After not one, but two attempts on his life in the past nine weeks, President Trump is more determined than ever to see his mission through to the end," the campaign said in a statement. "In that Butler field on July 13th, he took a bullet for democracy—and on November 5th, he is going to save our democracy. With the help of the amazing people of Pennsylvania and citizens all across our land, we will make America safer, stronger, freer, and greater than ever before."

Two other rallygoers were wounded in the attempt and Crooks himself was killed by a Secret Service counter sniper.

Trump subsequently became the target of a second apparent assassination attempt earlier this month while golfing at his Palm Beach course.