A July 18 Threads post (direct link) includes a picture of former President Donald Trump on the Republican National Convention stage next to a firefighter's jacket with “Compertore” written on the back.
"The firefighter gear is fake… And they misspelled his name,” reads the post. It was a reference to 50-year-old firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was killed during the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump.
Similar claims were shared elsewhere on Threads and on X, formerly Twitter.
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Comperatore's fire department confirmed the misspelled jacket seen on the RNC stage belonged to the slain fireman. It said the error was made several years prior to the shooting and Comperatore opted not to correct it. Photos of the jacket taken before Trump's speech also read "Compertore."
At one point during Trump’s hour-and-a-half-long speech accepting his presidential nomination from the Republican Party, he approached a display honoring Comperatore and kissed a firefighter’s helmet that sat atop a jacket reading “Compertore.”
While it’s true that “Compertore" isn't the correct spelling, the late fireman's department said the jacket was indeed his.
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