He taught in China in the late 1980s shortly after the Tiananmen Square crackdown and later returned multiple times, leading student trips to the country over the years, according to accounts reviewed during the vetting process. Dana Remus, a former White House counsel under Biden who was assigned to the vetting team by Harris, asked Shapiro in the summer of 2024: “Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?” The pairing, however, failed to stop Donald Trump’s return to power, with Harris losing the general election by a large margin — a defeat that has since fueled renewed scrutiny of the rushed vetting process and the decisions that shaped the Democratic ticket.
Author: Ariel Zilber
Published at: 2026-01-19 23:46:47
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