ABC’s Good Morning America co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos scored the exclusive sit-down with Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro to air on Friday’s show about the arson attack at the governor’s mansion by an alleged suspect who harbored hatred toward Shapiro over the war in Gaza. In other words, anti-Semitism. Of course, Stephanopoulos couldn’t have left it there and instead repeatedly pushed Shapiro to make this a case of both sides, including a pot shot at Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Dan Meuser. After speaking with the governor and Pennsylvania First Lady Lori Shapiro and examining the catastrophic damage, Stephanopoulos first asked a simple question if this “was...a hate crime,” but the governor wouldn’t entertain because, as he would later note, it’s not helpful for the legal process for the victim to be making demands of prosecutors.     “But what does your gut tell you? I mean, this man was talking about Gaza, talking about Palestine, talking about his hatred for you,” Stephanopoulos wondered. Shapiro refused to engage on what certainly seems like an attack on him for being Jewish, merely saying this was what happens “when you’re — you’re in these positions of power” and “there are people out there that want to do you harm,” so he “tr[ies] not to be captive to the fear[.]” This went into more editorializing from Stephanopoulos: STEPHANOPOULOS: You say you don’t want to be captive to it, but this is something we’re seeing. This was a dramatic and scary example of it, but we’re seeing this kind of rise in threats and attacks all across the country. Homeland Security has been worrying about it for years. SHAPIRO: Yeah. It’s real I mean, this is sadly a real part of our society today. And it needs to be universally condemned, George. I don’t care if it’s coming from the left, from the right. I don’t care if it’s coming from someone who you voted for or someone who you didn’t vote for. Someone on your team or someone on the other team. I think every single leader has a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity and condemn this kind of violence. Following a question about this clear failure of security by the Pennsylvania State Police, the ABC host wondered whether Trump had reached out. Shapiro replied he hadn’t, but he did hear from FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi. Stephanopoulos tried again on enhanced charges for the suspect: “Attorney General Bondi has not yet said this was an act of domestic terrorism. Do you believe it was?” Shapiro again demurred, leaving the still unofficial Democratic Party hand frustrated and Shapiro to deliver the acknowledgment of wanting to at least partially stay out of the legal process: “Why don’t you want to address that question? Because we even saw Senator Schumer today sent a letter to the attorney general saying he believes this should be labeled and investigated as a hate crime.”     The interview footage ended with Stephanopoulos invoking the 2018 mass shooting on a Pittsburgh synagogue (which the liberal media blamed President Trump for) and Meuser’s comments noting Shapiro’s own white-hot rhetoric that included saying Republicans wanted people to go hungry. With Shapiro refusing to call out this anti-Semitic nut for what he is, Stephanopoulo had no other reason to invoke Meuser other than to allow Shapiro to score partisan points against someone he may face next year (click “expand”): STEPHANOPOULOS: Part of that job is to combat the kind of conditions we’re seeing that create the opportunity for situations like this. Pennsylvania is no stranger to this. We saw the attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. How do you combat this kind of hate? SHAPIRO: By speaking and acting with moral clarity. Let me explain. Immediately following the assassination attempt on the former President, now President, in Butler, Pennsylvania. I condemned that in the strongest of terms. I spoke to the victims. I went to Butler. When the assassin who killed the U.S. healthcare CEO was caught in Altoona, Pennsylvania, I immediately went there and condemned that kind of violent in clear terms. I think it’s also important when you’re not dealing with a traumatic event in Butler and Altoona or here in Harrisburg, to be leading every day in a way that, like, brings people together and doesn’t just continually divide us. STEPHANOPOULOS: I know you know this, but you have a Republican congressman of Pennsylvania comes out and says it’s your rhetoric about President Trump — he didn’t quite say it’s partly to blame but he cited it as something that people have to get under control. SHAPIRO: Again, I think leaders have a responsibility to speak and act with moral clarity and that particular congressman failed yet again. To see the relevant transcript from April 18, click here.