2025-06-14
36 分钟It was two months ago today when the home of Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was violently attacked.
A man scaled a fence around the governor's residence.
He broke in and he set off explosives in the state dining room.
The extent of the damage, it was shocking.
Shapiro, his wife Lori, and their children, they had been asleep upstairs.
A local man, 38-year-old Cody Balmer, was later arrested.
He was charged with attempted homicide, arson, and terrorism.
Bommer said that it was Israel's treatment of Palestinians that was a motivation for his attack on Shapiro,
who's Jewish.
He said he harbored hatred for Shapiro and that he had intended to kill him that night.
Bommer also, he has a history of mental health issues.
When I saw the news of the attack on Shapiro's home, I was stunned.
I am from Pennsylvania.
I'm from a town not too far from the state capital of Harrisburg.
I have known and followed and covered Shapiro's career for more than a decade.
I am also Jewish.
Since the attack,
there's been more high profile violent acts of anti-Semitism in the United States.
I knew I wanted to have this conversation with Shapiro.
I wanted to better understand what happened that night,