Almost a week after the arsonist set fire to the residence of Governor Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, while the governor Josh Shapiro and his family were inside, President Donald Trump called Shapiro to share his “warm greetings,” Shapiro said on Monday.
Shapiro’s family and the extended family slept in the governor’s residence after the Passover celebration, when a 38-year-old man broke into the wing of the house with an area of ​​29,000 square feet and began a few fires-he said that Trump called him on Saturday to wish him and his family well after shaking.
“We talked for a lot of time,” said Shapiro at a press conference in Pittsburgh on Monday, where he was in favor of additional financing for first aid people. “I very much appreciate his call and we agreed to stay in touch.”
During the conversation, Shapiro said that he and Trump also discussed the proposed sale of American Steel based in Pittsburgh to the Japanese company Nippon Steel, added Shapiro.
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Shapiro, as a democratic governor leading one of the most critical countries of the swing in the country that voted for Trump, in the first few months of the second term of Trump went to the political line. He said he would work with Trump when he was in the best interest of Pennsylvania, but if necessary he would challenge him.
Until now, Shapiro sued Trump’s administration three times with federal financing freezes or cuts, arguing that the federal government had broken contracts with a state that has already been approved by the Congress.
Shapiro, who quickly condemned the attempt to murder against Trump at a rally of a campaign in Western Pennsylvania last year after the tump’s degreased ear shell, and then used a similar language to condemn political violence.
After shooting Trump in July 2024, Shapiro said: “Violence addressed to every political party or political leader is absolutely unacceptable. There is no place in Pennsylvania or the United States.”
Last week, appearing before broken and charred windows of the governor’s residence along the Susquehanna River, Shapiro repeated the same sentiment: “I don’t care if it comes from one particular side or another, directed at one or another person or one person. It’s not right, and he must stop.”
In the hours after the attack of the arson, Shapiro said last week that the director of the FBI Kash Patel contacted him and “he was extremely nice and polite and thought out in his conversation with me.” Shapiro also thanked Trump and federal authorities for supporting the state police in investigation.
Trump – who had previously attacked Shapiro in social media and claimed that the Governor’s Jewish faith was about why Shapiro was not chosen to be the former vice president of Kamali Harris last year – briefly dealt with the attack on arson during a conversation with reporters in the oval office last week, saying “
The president’s comments were the answer to the reporter’s question, who asked if he was informed about the potential motive, given that federal investigators help in the poll.
“No, no,” Trump replied, “but the attacker was not a fan of Trump, I understand, but from what I read and what I was said. The attacker was basically not a fan of anyone.”
Cody Balmer, who was accused of attempting to murder and other crimes in the attack, and the police said that “hatred” to Shapiro, did not seem to have a specific political leaning in social media. His family members did not take medication for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
In the call to 911, shortly after setting fire to Balmer, he said to the dispatchers that the governor should be said that “he would not take part in his plans what the Palestinian nation wants to do.” Balmer, sounding from breath, also told the dispatcher that the governor must leave his friends and family alone.
The White House refused to comment on Monday.
