Erika Cries…Again. A Mysterious Death In Pennsylvania Reignites Butler Conspiracies. | Ep 349

June 15, 2026

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A Mysterious Death in Pennsylvania and the Thread That Connects Butler to Beirut

The same week Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, a 48-year-old oilfield supervisor named Mark A. Leedy died in what local news called a "freak accident." He was burning papers in a barrel in his backyard when something inside exploded, sending shrapnel through his neck. His brother told reporters he couldn't "put his arms around it." His best friend from high school, a man named Corey Comperatore, didn't buy the burn barrel story either. Comperatore knew that Leedy worked for a company called Surefire Wireline that used a specific explosive called PETN for oil and gas well perforation. He also knew Leedy had allegedly confessed to stealing some of that explosive from work just a week before he died, and that the ATF was investigating.

Comperatore never got to pursue those questions. On July 13, 2024, he took his family to the Trump rally in Butler. An unknown woman approached them in the crowd and offered to escort them to the very front. Comperatore was shot in the head and killed. He became the one fatality of the day that the media largely treated as a footnote to Trump's ear wound. Leedy's death had already been written off as a tragic accident. Within two months, both men who knew about the stolen PETN were dead.

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1 (00:32) **Episode Introduction & Overview** - Candace introduces the episode's three main threads: a mysterious death in Pennsylvania tied to Butler, Erica Kirk crying on camera again, and a FOIA request for Kash Patel's travel schedule.
2 (02:10) **Charlie Kirk's Own Skepticism About Butler** - A clip of Charlie Kirk is played, where he lays out the suspicious failures of the security apparatus at the Butler rally, calling it "one of the largest scandals in American history."
3 (06:34) **The Mysterious Death of Mark A. Leedy** - Introduction of Mark Leedy, a 48-year-old man killed by a "freak accident" involving an explosion in a burn barrel in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.
4 (09:28) **The Explosives Connection & Corey Comperatore** - Mark Leedy's best friend didn't believe the burn barrel story because Leedy had access to PETN explosives from work and allegedly confessed to stealing them a week before his death.
5 (11:42) **Corey Comperatore's Odd Evening at the Rally** - Details of Corey Comperatore's experience at the Butler rally, including a key anomaly.
6 (13:02) **The Pager Attack: A PETN Case Study** - Two months after Butler, a massive pager explosion attack in Lebanon and Syria is executed using PETN explosives, providing a real-world reference point.
7 (16:35) **Mossad's "Truman Show" Strategy** - A clip of a former Mossad agent explaining their ability to create a "pretend world" of shell companies to infiltrate supply chains without detection.

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Show Notes

Erika cries on camera again, we get a response to our Kash Patel FOIA request, and the Butler assassination attempt leads to some lingering questions for the widow of the real victim that day, Corey Comperatore.

00:00 - Start.

01:41 - Charlie Kirk's chilling video about Butler.

06:03 - The mysterious death of Mark A. Liti.

12:20 - PETN and Israel's exploding pagers.

27:34 - An update on our latest FOIA request.

35:47 - Erika cries, again.

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