Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, has made serious allegations concerning the vetting process he underwent as a potential running mate for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. In his newly released memoir, Where We Keep the Light, Shapiro claims that members of Harris’s team questioned his loyalty, suggesting he might be a double agent for Israel.
Shapiro, who is Jewish, described the vetting experience in his book, highlighting a particularly offensive query about his connections to Israel. “Had I been a double agent for Israel?” he recounted, expressing his shock and offense at the implication. When he challenged the antisemitic nature of the question, the vetting team reportedly justified it by saying, “Well, we have to ask.”
In a specific exchange, former White House counsel Dana Remus allegedly asked Shapiro, “Have you ever communicated with an undercover agent of Israel?” To which Shapiro responded with exasperation, “If they were undercover, how the hell would I know?”
Shapiro acknowledged that Remus was simply executing her duties but emphasized that the line of questioning revealed much about the mindset of some individuals within the vice president’s circle.
As reported by the New York Times, neither Dana Remus nor Kamala Harris has provided comments regarding these allegations.
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 – 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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