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In a recent revelation, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, has made claims about an unusual vetting experience. He alleges that during a background check for a potential role as a 2024 running mate, representatives of former Vice President Kamala Harris inquired about his loyalty to Israel, hinting at suspicions of him being a “double agent.”
Shapiro shares these insights in his newly published memoir, Where We Keep the Light. He asserts that the vetting process involved intense scrutiny of his views on Israel, seemingly driven by his Jewish heritage.
The governor recounts a moment of disbelief when confronted with the question, “Had I been a double agent for Israel?” This query, which he found offensive, carried clear antisemitic implications. When he challenged the appropriateness of the question, the vetting team reportedly replied, “Well, we have to ask.”
According to Shapiro, Dana Remus, a former White House counsel, posed the question, “Have you ever communicated with an undercover agent of Israel?” To this, Shapiro humorously responded, “If they were undercover, how the hell would I know?”
Though he bears no ill will toward Remus for adhering to her instructions, Shapiro believes the nature of the questioning revealed significant issues with some individuals in the vice president’s circle.
According to the New York Times, neither a representative for Dana Remus nor Kamala Harris commented on the allegation.
“Mr. Shapiro, an outspoken critic of what he saw as antisemitism on college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war, wrote that he faced skepticism of that record during vetting,” noted the Times. “When Ms. Harris asked if he ‘would be willing to apologize for the statements I had made, particularly over what I saw happening at the University of Pennsylvania,’ he replied that he would not, he wrote.”
“I believe in free speech, and I’ll defend it with all I’ve got,” he wrote. “Most of the speech on campus, even that which I disagreed with, was peaceful and constitutionally protected. But some wasn’t peaceful.”
“I wondered whether these questions were being posed to just me — the only Jewish guy in the running — or if everyone who had not held a federal office was being grilled about Israel in the same way,” he also wrote.
While Shapiro commended the vetting team for being “professional and businesslike,” he admitted to having “a knot in my stomach through all of it.”
This is not the first time Shapiro has criticized Kamala Harris and her team for their treatment of him during the vetting process. As Breitbart News reported in December, the Pennsylvania governor accused the former vice president of pushing “blatant lies” in her memoir, 107 Days, for charging that he took control of the conversation when interviewing him as a potential running mate.
“That’s complete bullshit. I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies,” he told The Atlantic.
The Atlantic recalled some of the questions Kamala Harris claimed she asked him during the interview, such as the size of the vice president’s Naval Observatory home and if the governor could loan Pennsylvania art for the residence.
“I mean, she’s trying to sell books and cover her ass,” Shapiro was quoted as saying. The Atlantic then claimed he backtracked and said, “I shouldn’t say ‘cover her ass.’ I think that’s not appropriate. She’s trying to sell books. Period.”
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