'Affront to Jews everywhere': Josh Shapiro hits back at Trump's 'anti-Semitic tropes'

Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, hit back at former President Donald Trump on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, saying the MAGA leader's "anti-Semitic" comments are an "affront to Jews everywhere."

Trump raised eyebrows by highlighting Shapiro's Jewish faith when the ex-president slammed Shapiro's convention speech.

"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, 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 posted on Truth Social.

"Judge only by her actions! Yet Shapiro, for strictly political reasons, refused to acknowledge that I am the best friend that Israel, and the Jewish people, ever had."

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CNN host Jake Tapper asked Shapiro his thoughts on Trump's comment, noting Trump doesn't highlight governors' beliefs in other religions such as Christianity.

"It's not new to see Donald Trump engaging in anti-Semitic tropes," said Shapiro. "These efforts to divide us and single someone out and remove them from others. This notion of dual loyalty that Jews only care about Israel and if they do they have to believe a certain thing, I think it's an affront to Jews everywhere."

"Forget my feelings," said Shapiro, "He can say whatever the hell he wants about me. But I know how it makes other people feel."

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