Donald Trump initially made no move to contact the family or attend the funeral of Corey Comperatore, the pro-Trump firefighter who was shot and killed at a rally and suffered minor ear injuries in a botched assassination attempt.
But he eventually got in touch with the widow and displayed the firefighter’s jacket at the Republican National Convention, but many immediately noticed something odd: Comperatore’s name on the jacket was misspelled, missing the “A.”
“Oh my goodness!!! The stupid prop used to politicize a real murder that happened this weekend was actually a misspelling of a firefighter’s name,” wrote Fred Guttenberg, a gun control activist who lost his daughter in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School shooting in Parkland, Fla. “They didn’t even bother to check. The name is Comperatore.”
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But let’s not get too quick. According to KCRA News, this isn’t actually the fault of Trump or anyone at the Republican National Convention. Rather, it’s Comperatore’s real jacket, given to him by the Buffalo County Volunteer Fire Department, that just happens to be misspelled. The fire department added that the name “was misspelled years ago, but Corey left it in.”
It’s unclear why Comperatore left in the spelling mistake, but there are a few theories.
“No, nothing offensive,” wrote the account @david_blette. “Maybe someone accidentally got his name wrong when making his jacket a few months or years ago. He and the other firefighters probably thought it was pretty funny and weren’t willing to spend the money to fix it. Let’s just leave it at that.”
The Republican National Convention came to a close this week after a series of contentious speeches, culminating with Trump accepting the Republican nomination for a third time in a lengthy address that horrified many onlookers after the former president vowed to promote unity among Americans.
