Donald Trump initially made no move to contact the family of or attend the funeral of Corey Comperatore, the pro-Trump firefighter who was fatally shot at the rally where the former president also received a minor injury to his ear in a failed assassination plot.
Ultimately he got in touch with his widow, however, and put on display a jacket of the firefighter at the Republican National Convention — but a number of people immediately noticed something odd. Comperatore's name was misspelled on the jacket, leaving out the "A."
"OMG!!! The ridiculous prop that they used to politicize the actual murder that took place this weekend actually spelled the firefighters name wrong," wrote Fred Guttenberg, the gun safety activist who lost his daughter in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting in Parkland, Florida. "They didn't even care enough to check. It is Comperatore."
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But not so fast. According to KCRA News, it wasn't actually Trump's fault, or the fault of anyone at the RNC. Rather, it is Comperatore's real jacket, given by the Buffalo County Volunteer Fire Company, and it just happened to have the misspelling on it. The department added that the name “was in error years ago, and it was left that way by Corey.”
The reason for Comperatore keeping the misspelling is unclear, but some people have theories.
"No it isn’t distasteful," wrote the account @david_blette. "Probably, months or years ago when they originally made his jacket somebody did accidentally misspell his name. He and the other firefighters probably thought it was pretty funny and they weren’t willing to spend the money to fix it. Leave it be."
The RNC concluded this week after a series of controversial speeches, culminating in Trump accepting the nomination of the GOP for a third time in a lengthy rant that left many onlookers horrified after the ex-president vowed to promote unity among Americans.
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