Trump jabs 'highly overrated Jewish Governor' Josh Shapiro
Former President Trump jabbed "highly overated Jewish" Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) late Wednesday for what he called a “really bad” speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Shapiro delivered an impassioned speech Wednesday night, warning that the former president would strip Americans of their rights and freedoms if he won the White House in November. Trump responded to the speech on social media, criticizing the Pennsylvania governor and Vice President Harris for doing “nothing” for Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
“The highly overrated Jewish Governor of the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, made a really bad and poorly delivered speech talking about freedom and fighting for Comrade Kamala Harris for President," Trump wrote overnight on Truth Social.
He added, "yet she hates Israel and will do nothing but make its journey through the complexities of survival as difficult as possible, hoping in the end that it will fail."
The former president also said Shapiro “refused to acknowledge that I am the best friend that Israel, and the Jewish people, ever had.”
His comments come after Republicans claimed Harris did not select Shapiro as her running mate because of his faith — an argument many Jewish Democrats have pushed back on.
“I have done more for Israel than any President, and frankly, I have done more for Israel than any person, and it’s not even close. Shapiro has done nothing for Israel, and never will," the former president continued in his post. "Comrade Kamala Harris, the Radical Left Marxist who stole the nomination from Crooked Joe, will do even less. Israel is in BIG trouble!”
Shapiro was seen as one of the top contenders to be the vice presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket. He received criticism in recent weeks over his stance on the Israel-Hamas war and his handling of pro-Palestinian protests.
While Harris ultimately chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to be her running mate, Shapiro is slated to be a key ally in the Keystone State, seen as a must-win state for the White House.
Shapiro slammed Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, earlier this week for having no credibility to speak about antisemitism while responding to Republicans’ claims that he was not selected to be Harris’s running mate because he was Jewish.
“Well, look, the person leading that effort to inject that into the dialogue is Donald Trump, someone who has absolutely no credibility to speak about antisemitism or hatred or bigotry in any form because he is someone who pushes that into the dialogue. He is someone who divides Americans,” Shapiro told MSNBC’s Joy Reid.
The Hill has reached out to Shapiro’s office and the Harris campaign for comment.
Updated at 9:02 a.m. EDT
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