Trump uses Butler return to blast hurricane response: Harris wined and dined while victims died

Former President Donald Trump used a triumphant return Saturday evening to the site of the first assassination attempt against him to blast the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene, suggesting politics was placed ahead of  victims.

“This has been the worst Hurricane Response by a president and vice president since Katrina—and this is simply unacceptable.,” Trump told a monstrous crowd in Butler, Pa.

“Kamala wined and dined in San Francisco, and all the people in North Carolina—no helicopters, no rescue. What’s happening there is very bad,” he added. “They’re offering $750 to people whose homes have been washed away—meanwhile, they send our money to other countries by the billions.”

Trump returned 84 days later to the scene where an assassin wounded him in the ear, and brought the crowd to life with his opening line.

“As I was saying,” Trump said, turning toward a graph on a projector screen behind him. “I love that chart. I love that graph. Isn’t it a beautiful thing?”

The graph showed the amount of illegal border crossings recorded on Trump’s last day in office in 2021. It’s also the one he was looking at when a bullet from 20-year-old Thomas Crooks’s rifle grazed his right ear.

Moments later, U.S. Secret Services agents tackled Trump, while a sniper shot and killed Crooks on the roof of the AGR building roughly 400 feet from the rally stage.

In his return, Trump thanked them as well as the local law enforcement and emergency responders who leaped into action in the aftermath of the shooting. 

Trump also urged the massive crowd to deliver an Election Day victory as the ultimate response to the failed assassination.

“Twelve weeks ago, we all took a bullet for America,” Trump said. “All we are all asking is that everyone goes out and votes. We got to win. We can’t let this happen to our country.”