Former President Donald Trump had some choice words for Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Wednesday night.
Shapiro took to the podium to warn Americans their rights and freedoms could be stripped if Trump won the election, per The Hill.
“While [Trump] cloaks himself in the blanket of freedom, what he’s offering isn’t freedom at all,” Shapiro said.
“Because it’s not freedom to tell our children what books they’re allowed to read,” Shapiro said, adding that “it’s not freedom to tell women what they can do with their bodies … it sure as hell isn’t freedom to say you can go vote, but he gets to pick the winner.”
Trump responded with a post on Truth Social.
“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.
“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,” Trump added.
“Yet Shapiro, for strictly political reasons, refused to acknowledge that I am the best friend that Israel, and the Jewish people, ever had. 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,” Trump wrote.
Republicans have claimed Harris did not choose Shapiro for her running mate because he is Jewish. Jewish Democrats have denied that theory.
Harris ended up choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to be her running mate.
Earlier this week Shapiro criticized Trump for having “no credibility to speak about antisemitism.”
“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 said.
