Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been curiously quiet concerning the occasions unfolding on the Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago. Even when Michelle and Barack Obama had been taking him aside on Tuesday night time, Trump wasn’t airing the standard real-time complaints on his Reality Social platform.
However he did really feel impressed to offer his thumbs a exercise on Wednesday night time with an antisemitic assault on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro following Shapiro’s comparatively temporary speech on the conference.
Shapiro’s speech centered on “real freedom.” He talked concerning the necessity of funding lecturers, fostering secure communities, and enabling People to make their very own selections about their our bodies, their lives, their relationships, and their kids. However apart from dismissing the speech as “bad” and “badly delivered,” nothing concerning the content material of Shapiro’s speech made it into Trump’s publish.
Trump was simply there to declare Shapiro a foul Jew.
Watching even a portion of the governor’s speech exhibits that the supply and content material had been something however dangerous. It was a stable speech, delivered with zest, to an appreciative viewers. CBS referred to as it “fiery.”
Trump’s publish makes you query whether or not he really watched Shapiro converse in any respect.
Calling Shapiro an “overrated Jewish Governor” and berating him for failing to “acknowledge that I am the best friend that Israel, and the Jewish people, ever had” makes Trump’s observe notably ugly.
Simply as Trump has many instances set arbitrary guidelines round who’s a “real American,” he now appears to consider he can decide who’s a actual Jew—and that actual Jews can’t even be Democrats.
Talking with reporters on Thursday morning, Shapiro pushed again in opposition to Trump’s stomach-churning publish.
“I think it’s clear over the last few years, Donald Trump is obsessed with me and obsessed with continuing to spew hate and division in our politics,” Shapiro mentioned. “He’s someone who’s routinely peddled antisemitic tropes like this.”
Shapiro reminded reporters that not solely did Trump lose Pennsylvania in 2020, however his hand-picked candidates misplaced their races within the state in 2022. That features Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who misplaced the governor’s seat to Shapiro in a 15-point blowout.
“[Trump is] the guy who has been repeatedly rejected by the voters in Pennsylvania,” mentioned Shapiro. “He himself in 2020, all of his handpicked candidates have lost and I think he’s headed for another loss to Kamala Harris.”
Shapiro mentioned there was another excuse Trump didn’t like his speech. The wildly well-liked Democrat mentioned his message was the “exact polar opposite” of what Trump embodies.
“I’m talking about real freedom,” Shapiro mentioned, “bringing people together, accepting folks no matter what they look like, where they come from, who they love, who they pray to and say this is a place for you. That’s diametrically opposed to everything Donald Trump believes and it’s clear that he’s going to continue to be the hateful, divisive person that he’s always been in this campaign.”
