Supporters of former President Donald Trump came in the tens of thousands to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday to witness the return of their candidate to the site where he was shot in the head only months ago.
The Trump campaign estimated that over 100,000 supporters attended the rally, many of whom told The Federalist that they believed they needed to attend in order to show defiance and triumph in the face of Trump’s would-be assassin, who took the life of one and injured two others in addition to the former president at the original Butler rally on July 13.
“If you believe in God, you know that a miracle happened that day, and it’s triumphant,” Vicki Barnum of Collier Township, Pennsylvania, told The Federalist. “We all want to move in the same direction, and we feel like we’ve got a force behind us that’s bigger than the government and bigger than us.”
“We really need to take a stand now and let our voices be heard,” she said.
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Rallygoers began lining up early in the morning to enter the event site and stood in the sun for hours prior to Trump speaking in the evening. Many also came from out of state to see Trump speak, and a number of these were also at the July 13 rally.
“That incident itself — the death of Corey, the attempted assassination of Trump, two others in the audience that were wounded
