CNN's Jake Tapper took apart the heinous anti-Semitic comments made by Republican Doug Mastriano against his rival Josh Shapiro and the Jewish middle school he sends his children to.
The election for the next Governor of Pennsylvania is being fought by an election-denying racist representing the Republicans.
Tapper played a short clip of Mastriano using anti-Semitic dog whistle words to attack Shapiro.
"[Shapiro] grew up in a privileged neighborhood, attended one of the most privileged schools in the nation as a young man, not college. I'm talking about as a kid," he said.
"Sending his four kids to the same privileged exclusive elite school -- We talk about him having disdain for people like us," Mastriano said.
Shapiro and his four kids are being portrayed as being taught to hate American because of their Jewish faith by Mastriano, a man who embraces and hired the anti-Semitic founder of Gab.
Unfortunately for Doug the Thug, Tapper went to that same school and knows what it is all about
I happen to know a little bit about the 'privileged' school that Mr. Mastriano is attacking because I went there too. I was four-year-old ahead of attorney general Josh Shapiro. It was then called Akiba Hebrew academy.
It's a private Jewish parochial school, and I suppose in that sense it is privileged, but I do not know many people who would describe it the way that Mr. Mastriano did. More than 60% of the student body is currently on some form of tuition assistance, the school tells me, which was my experience back when I went there in the 1980s.
A lot of kids got financial aid including a lot of kids who with their parents had escaped anti-antisemitism in the Soviet Union and were trying to build better lives for themselves in the Philadelphia area. I don't think I've ever heard Mr. Mastriano describe any other Pennsylvania parochial schools in that way. Elite, exclusive, privileged, full of disdain for fellow Americans.
And then Tapper hit the nail on the head.
The Catholic school down the street seemed more similar to our school. Kids of people, some of them wealthy, some of middle class, some more humble. Many of them from families where both parents worked, from all over the area, New Jersey, Delaware, Philly, Pennsylvania, wanting their kids to get an education that included faith and ethics and morals.
Is that -- is that bad? Or is it only bad when those parochial schools aren't Christian?
Tapper then went on to describe the relation Mastriano has with Andrew Torba.
Mastriano has close ties with openly, proudly anti-Semitic GAB founder Andrew Torba, who was paid for consulting services by the Mastriano campaign. Torba regularly attacks Jews. He calls Josh Shapiro the antichrist.
There can be no doubt that Doug Mastriano is an ultra-MAGA fascist.
