Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro launched a vile, below-the-belt broadside against War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday, telling Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Hegseth is “like an eight-year-old playing with toy soldiers every day.”
“He is someone who I think is making America less safe and there has to be real accountability,” Shapiro said. “If the Congress determines that the best approach is impeachment, then they’ll do that. It does seem, you’re closer to this than I am, it does seem that there is a growing consensus amongst not just Democrats but Republicans as well in the current Congress, not even the new Congress, that his time as defense secretary should be up.”
The ambitious Democrat apparently forgot that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
While Shapiro talks a tough game against decorated veterans on Sunday morning talk shows, he turns into a total mouse the second he’s asked to stand up to the radical, anti-Israel zealots hijacking his own party.
For all his swagger, Shapiro has compiled an embarrassing track record of cowering whenever leftist extremists target the Jewish state.
In July, with his eye on a future White House bid, Shapiro performed a giant tap dance on MS NOW when Willie Geist pressed him on the hard-Left taking over Democratic primaries in New York and Colorado.
Rather than condemn figures like NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, who had accused Israel of “apartheid” and “genocide,” or candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, who attended a Times Square rally the day after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 Israelis on October 7, Shapiro completely dodged. He didn’t utter a peep against New York radical Claire Valdez’s anti-Zionist rhetoric or Colorado socialist Melat Kiros demanding a total arms embargo on Israel.
Instead, Shapiro hid behind platitudes, babbling about Pennsylvania “pragmatism” and “getting stuff done.”
Passed over by Kamala Harris because she feared offending the party’s antisemitic wing, Shapiro dutifully took the stage at the Democratic National Convention like a good soldier. He delivered a toothless speech that scrubbed out any mention of Israel or foreign policy altogether, clinging to vague slogans about “freedom” while ignoring how the Biden-Harris administration routinely slow-walked military aid to an ally under siege.
President Donald Trump blasted Shapiro for selling out to appease party radicals.
“Shapiro has done nothing for Israel, and never will,” Trump posted on Truth Social in 2024.
Shapiro might think taking cheap shots at Hegseth proves he’s ready for the national stage. But calling a military veteran an “eight-year-old playing with toy soldiers” won’t distract voters from the reality. When it comes to standing up to the bullies in his own backyard, Josh Shapiro folds every single time.
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