Returning to the site where an attempted assassin’s bullet grazed his ear, former President Donald Trump got to finish what he started in July. “As I was saying,” Trump joked early in his speech to the crowd of thousands in Butler.

The rally marked the former president’s first visit back to Butler, Pennsylvania, since an assassination attempt was made on his life by a 20-year-old gunman.

Saturday marks exactly one month to Election Day 2024, and former President Donald Trump returned to Butler, the scene of a July attempt on his life that left a rally-goer dead. In an election year that has had a nonstop carousel of unprecedented moments,