By: Janice Hisle | The Epoch Times
Helen Comperatore reveals insights about her husband’s death, as others join her in calling for release of more records.
BUTLER COUNTY, Pa.—When President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated in front of thousands of rallygoers two years ago, Helen Comperatore saw something no one else did.
After shots rang out from a nearby rooftop, wounding then-candidate Trump and two other people, her husband, Corey, shoved her out of harm’s way.
Then the father of two used his body to shield his oldest daughter, Allyson; his youngest daughter, Kaylee, was in a separate section of the bleachers with her boyfriend. From below, Helen reached up and grabbed her husband’s shirt.
“I was looking right into his eyes, and that’s when he got shot. … I saw the life go right out of him,” she told The Epoch Times. “We read each other; we didn’t have to speak. I was reading his eyes in that moment … and—bam—it was gone.”
Initially, she felt cursed to have witnessed the tragic demise of the 50-year-old man she had loved since high school; they had been married just shy of 29 years. “I kept saying to God: ‘Why? Why would you do that to me?’ … It was a horrific thing to see when you love somebody,” she said.
A couple weeks later, Comperatore realized witnessing that moment was, in one way, a blessing. “I know he didn’t suffer, not for one second,” she said, noting she was revealing these details publicly for the first time.
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