The small town of Butler is struggling with a tragedy after a Trump rally attack

Butler, Pennsylvania – No one in Butler, Pennsylvania – 13,000 inhabitants – has never imagined that their quiet community would become the backdrop of a presidential assassination attempt.

But on July 13, 2024, the shooter Thomas Mathew Crooks opened fire during a gathering for once and the future president Donald Trump to showgroups of the local farm, a burst of violence which resolved far beyond the rolling hills of the west of Pennsylvania and changed the course of American history.

A bullet collapsed Trump’s ear and could have ended his life if he had slightly tilted his head. In the months that followed, the Republicans rallied fiercely behind him. Trump then won the re-election in a wave of support, with donors, and Trump himself, saying that God had spared him to save America.

Residents and participants in the rally are always amazed that their city has become synonymous with attack, and saddened that the image of Butler as a peaceful farm community was overshadowed by this dark day.

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The participation layer of Corey Comperatore, a retired firefighters who was shot dead in the attempted assassination of July against the Republican presidential candidate and former American president Donald Trump, is seen in the stands for a moment of silence during a rally, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on October 5, 2024. (Reuters / Carlos Barria)

“For something like that to dive Butler in the National and the international spotlights, it’s very sad,” said JD Longo, mayor of Slippery Rock, at Fox News Digital.

“This is not what anyone in Butler or Western Pennsylvania wants to be known,” said Longo. “It’s a place where you can start a family if you wish, have a good life.”

But above all, their heart breaks for the firefighter family who lost their lives when Crooks fired eight shots directed against Trump.

“Many of us hope that, despite the ugliness and horror of this day and the obvious losses of life that have occurred, losing Corey Comperatore, that the county of Butler can be more recalled for the way in which we immediately unify this moment and how we arrived to help and defense of the Comperatore and President.”

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Fox News Digital interviewed Zach Scherer, a butler room, outside the Butler farm, where Trump’s rally took place. (Fox News Digital)

He is proud of the way Butler met after the tragedy. But some cannot forget why he had to do.

“It has definitely put us in a difficult place,” said Zach Scherer, a finance premises that volunteered for several Trump campaigns. “There are people here who think about it all the time.”

“Many of us hope that, despite the ugliness and horror of this day and the obvious losses of life that have occurred, losing Corey Comperatore, that the county of Butler can be more recalled for the way in which we immediately unify this moment and how we arrived to help and defense of the Comperatore and President.”

“We really feel bad for Butler,” said Erin Autenreith de Glenshaw, Pennsylvania, a long -standing volunteer from the Trump campaign and a rally lover.

“I have been to the Farm Show for years,” she added, referring to the annual event that attracts families from all over the west of Pennsylvania. She described one of her favorite attractions – an area where the cows enter to be milked and a building next to it that has vanilla milkshakes made from this milk. “It’s so healthy. My husband likes to shoot the truck,” she said.

“It’s always something we were looking forward to, and now it’s linked to that.”

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“We feel really bad for Butler,” said Erin Autenreith de Glenshaw, long -standing volunteer from Trump’s campaign and Rallye lover. (Fox News Digital)

Butler Farm Show, which allowed the Trump campaign to use its property for the rally, also tries to shake the association with the shooting. Media members are not allowed to film on the property.

“It put a stain on a very beautiful community,” said Autenreith. “It is only 45 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. It is as if you have been transformed into, you know, a bit like, I would say that iowa.”

However, butler residents say that the shooting has not broken the community. In the following days and weeks, they gathered to support the Comperatore family and other people affected by violence.

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“The general region of Pittsburgh, we are quite difficult here – because the president would be qualified as difficult cookies,” said Bob Crankovic.

Lucie Roth, who sat down right behind Trump at the Rally Butler, said that she had not hesitated to come back. “The following rally that (Trump) had, I was just behind him again.”