Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro revealed on Tuesday that President Trump called him during the weekend to ask how his family did after the arson on the Governor’s home earlier this month.
“I appreciated that the president called me,” Shapiro told reporters At the annual Easter egg hunt in Harrisburg – the First public event Held in the mansion of the Governor since the Blaze of 13 April destroyed the historic state building of the building of the state building.
“I didn’t accept his phone call because it came from his mobile and I didn’t have that number in my phone, so I didn’t know who it was,” said the governor. “As soon as I heard his message, I immediately called him back.”
Shapiro said he spoke to Trump for more than 15 minutes, and the two discussed various topics, including the arson attack that the governor, his family, guests and pets forced to run the building in the early hours of the morning.
“He was very graceful,” Shapiro said about Trump and noted that the president asked for his wife, Lori, and their four children – who had all slept when Molotov cocktails were thrown into the building and inflamed a huge fire.
“He asked how Lori and the children were doing it. [We] Speaking of what was happening in the home for a few minutes, and then we might spoke about a whole series of other topics for the next 15 minutes or so, “Shapiro said.
The governor refused to go into details about the other topics discussed.
“It is clear that I am not going in our private conversation,” he said. “But he is tailored to the issues that are important to me. Of course I know the issues that are important to him, and we have agreed to contact in the future.”
Cody Balmer – the alleged anti -Semitic madman accused of the scales of a fence, breaking a window with a hammer and then Molotov cocktails swinging in the home of the governor while Shapiro and his family slept – is accused of arson, murder, terrorism and other violations.
Balmer, 38, reportedly referred to Shapiro’s assumed “plans for what he wants to do with the Palestinian people” during a 911 call that allows the attack, according to a police discharge.
Authorities investigate whether Balmer is driven to carry out the attack by anti -Semitism and prosecutors weigh the instructions of the charges of hate crimes on the alleged rap of the Firebug. Shapiro is Jewish.
