This fact check originally appeared on PolitiFact.
Former President Donald Trump 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, MAGA,” Trump said Oct. 5, 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.”
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Early in his address, Trump spoke about Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter who’d been in the July 13 crowd and whom Thomas Matthew Crooks killed. One of Crooks’ bullets grazed Trump’s ear.
A Secret Service countersniper killed Crooks.
Trump described Comperatore as a “folk hero” and called for a moment of silence at 6:11 p.m., the minute the shooting had begun July 13. After the pause, bells rang and a singer near the stage sang “Ave Maria.”
Trump’s speech included claims about the Biden-Harris administration’s response to Hurricane Helene, illegal immigration and the economy.
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