A few days after the combustion attack damaged his official residence, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro sat with a Co-dashor Good Morning America George Stephanopoulos for exclusive interviews and a charred room tour.
“Unfortunately it is a tangible part of our society today. And it needs to be cursed universally, George,” Shapiro said about the emergence of threats and attacks that have been politically motivated by the Ministry of Domestic Security in recent years.
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“I don’t care whether it comes from the left, from the right. I don’t care whether it comes from someone you choose or someone you don’t choose, someone in your team or someone in another team,” continued Shapiro.
The governor spoke with Stephanopoulos from one of the rooms damaged by a fire at the governor’s residence in Harrisburg on Thursday. For the first time together, Governor and First Lady Lori Shapiro also toured damage, along with Stephanopoulos.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro spoke with George Stephanopoulos during an interview with ABC News in a damaged room at the governor’s residence in Harrisburg, PA., April 17, 2025.
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The attack occurred Sunday morning, a few hours after the Shapiro family accommodated more than two dozen people for the first night of Easter. The attacker jumped the fence to the governor’s house, broke the window and threw Molotov cocktails made of beer and gasoline bottles, the police said.
Shapiro and his family were in the residence during the fire but were evacuated safely and were not injured, according to the State Police.
Fire Chief Harrisburg Brian Enterline described it as a “surrealist” to see the fire shooting of the governor’s residence. Fortunately, the door from the main dining room was closed during the flames, keeping the fire from spreading to the residence. If the door was not closed, Enterline said Shapiro and his family would not be in doubt at risk.
The view of damage in the governor’s residence on the day of the Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro and the Pennsylvania State Police gave an update about the arson that occurred at the residence, in Harrisburg, PA., April 13, 2025.
Commonwealth media services through Reuters
The suspect in the attack-Cody Balmer who was 38-year-old-handed over and allegedly told the police that he would attack Shapiro with Palu if he occurred to the governor in the residence, according to court documents.
The burning suspect allegedly decided to bombard the official bombing of the Democratic Governor because “what he wanted to do to the Palestinian people” and “based on the perception of injustice to the Palestinian people,” according to a warrant for the police search.
Balmer faces eight criminal charges, including attempted murder, terrorism and exacerbated burning. So far, prosecutors have not used racial crime laws, which in Pennsylvania are known as ethnic intimidation.
BALMER – A mechanic who previously declared an insult to Democrats on social media – was rejected by guarantees of his indictment on Monday.
During the trial, his lawyer said the balmer was poor and asked for a reasonable monetary guarantee, “but the judge denied it, saying that while he appreciated that Balmer surrendered, there were no conditions that could make him harmless to the community.