Jon Lovett
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This was after his home was attacked in an anti-Semitic attack.
He also has an in-depth accounting of Kamala Harris's VP vetting process, which Shapiro apparently found to be quite contentious.
He writes that the vetting team asked him at one point if he had ever, quote, communicated with an undercover agent of Israel or if he ever was himself, quote,
That news comes after Harris wrote in 107 Days that Shapiro was presumptive about being selected as the vice presidential nominee, saying that he wanted to, quote, be in the room for every decision and asked if the Smithsonian would lend Pennsylvania art to display in the vice president's residence.
Shapiro has basically denied that account, calling it bullshit.
No love lost between these two, huh?
Is the country ready for a Mossad agent?
What do we think about the vetting thing?
You get asked about everywhere you've traveled in the last decade, like outside the United States in detail.
And then the FBI will come back at certain places that you travel and be like, what happened when you were there?
You talk to when you were like this.
This happens when you're getting a security clearance.
Isn't that the whole point of the interview?
I'm interested to see what context that's in the book because it was just in the Atlantic piece.
But I was like, that is a weird, I don't understand that.
Of course it should be about your ideology, your approach, and your worldview.
She's picking you for vice president.