Jondavid Longo, mayor of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, told Newsmax on Friday that he's looking forward to getting answers from the Trump administration regarding the 2024 assassination attempt against now-President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, the anniversary of which is Sunday.
"One thing is for sure, I don't think that anybody is satisfied, of course, with what the Biden-Harris regime did for the many months before President Trump and his administration took office, by way of getting answers for the American people," Longo told "Finnerty" guest host Bob Brooks.
"And of course, we're not satisfied that they left a very good thing in place for President Trump and his administration to pick up on this investigation. So, we're hopeful that we'll get answers very soon."
Longo was reportedly at the rally in Butler on July 13, 2024, when Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, scaled a building about 130 yards away from where Trump was speaking undetected, wounding Trump in the right ear while killing Corey Comperatore, 50, a firefighter from nearby Sarver, Pennsylvania, and seriously wounding two others. A Secret Service sniper fatally shot Crooks.
Slippery Rock is about 17 miles north of Butler.
"I heard that first crack, and part of me started looking around, but mostly, it was disbelief, like this couldn't possibly have been," Longo told WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh on Friday. "Surely it was a firecracker or something. It's a gag."
Longo said when the shots were fired, he shielded his wife, not knowing at the time where those shots were coming from. He said Comperatore was sitting 15 to 20 feet behind him.
"While it could be very quickly for us, that it has transpired in the past, I think that a lot of us are reminded of the fact that the Comperatore family doesn't get to live it quickly," Longo said. "They get to and have to deal with the consequences of that day every day of their lives, and for the rest of their lives."
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Michael Katz ✉
Michael Katz is a Newsmax reporter with more than 30 years of experience reporting and editing on news, culture, and politics.