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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s claims at Butler rally

Trump spoke about surviving his first assassination attempt, and his opponent Kamala Harris. We verify his claims.

Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against him, to rally his supporters just a month before Election Day.

“Exactly 12 weeks ago this evening, on this very ground, a cold-blooded assassin aimed to silence me and to silence the greatest movement, MAGA, in the history of our country,” Trump said on Saturday, referring to his “Make America Great Again” catchphrase.

“For 16 harrowing seconds during the gunfire, time stopped as this vicious monster unleashed pure evil from his sniper’s perch, not so far away. But by the hand of providence and the grace of God, that villain did not succeed in his goal.”

Early in his address, Trump spoke about Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter who had been in the July 13 crowd and whom Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspect in Trump’s attempted assassination, killed. One of Crooks’s bullets grazed Trump’s ear.

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