‘They Failed My Husband Miserably’: Widow of Corey Comperatore Calls for Accountability from Secret Service

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Rachel: tomorrow marks one year since first assassination attempt on Donald Trump, in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a bullet came near millimeters from taking his life. Charlie: sadly, corey comperatate was killed in the shooting and his widow is demanding accountability from the Secret Service. Kevin: I speak for all Americans and I think our crew saying our heart goes out to you. How are you doing? Where are you in your healing?
>> ’m back at the beginning and we haven’t healed and have no answers. I miss him just like I did last year. Charlie: corey was not only a fire fighter and hero, but I think your daughghrs are stapediusdaughterers stananngbeh
>> Yes, Allison and kale and kal Rachel: hihi Allison and kaley, neck of saint Christopher and your husband’s fingerprints celebrating your 30th anniversary this weekend. A lot going on. You talk about not healing at this point and parart of the reason it’s so hard to heal is there’s not a lot of answewe. Not abab to have closure because our government is not giving you answers. Do you believe this man or boy, Thomas Crooks, acted alone and do you feel like the government ISIS giving you any insight into that?
>> You know, in one way I belief he acted alone. I do believe it was Secret Service error. I believe they failed my husband miserably and I want answers charlie: the director resigned last year after the disastrous hearings in Congress and do you feel like Congress is getting to E bottom of these questions ques and believe more people should face consequence for the mistakes that happen that hahad day?
>> Suspending them when my husband was killed, that’s not punishment. No. Kevin: has anyone reached out to you to try and walk you through what happened? Are you having conversations or invited to have conversation with anyone that can at least attempt to explain what went wrong?
>> Yes, Dan Bongino called me. We did walk through a lot of what happenenethat day w wh Thomas Crooks, and he was very kind and left me his phone number and said I can call him any time. Rachel: that doesn’t surprise me that Dan Bongino did that. What else do you want? What E ee do youou want from our government
>> I want to sit down with the secret servivi and I want them to tell me everything thth ham that had day. I want to know why they failed, what happened, why butler. Why was that such a failure that day? What was the reason? Why did he walk around for an hour without someone grabbing him. Why? Charlie: I can only imagine how difficult that was to go through that and probably relive all

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