Serious questions were raised during the campaign season about the qualifications and competence of a then Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman as he campaigned for the U.S. Senate.
Those questions were swatted away by Democrats and their allies in the media and Fetterman went on to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Now, Fetterman’s checked himself into the hospital for mental health issues but Pennsylvania Democrats assure everyone that he’s fit to make decisions on war and peace.
John Fetterman suffered a stroke last summer in the middle of his campaign where he was seeking election to the U.S. Senate from the state of Pennsylvania.
Fetterman, his campaign and his wife Gisele Barreto Fetterman all attempted to conceal the true extent of his impairment from the public and avoided press interviews for months until finally, when the truth could no longer be hidden, Fetterman appeared in an interview with NBC News reporter Dasha Burns.
In a rare showing of journalistic honesty in the corporate-controlled press, Burns said, “In small talk before the interview without captioning, it wasn’t clear he was understanding our conversation.”
After that came Fetterman’s disastrous, “Hi, Goodnight everybody” debate and persistent questions about his health dogged him for the rest of the campaign before he was nonetheless elected to succeed the retiring Pat Toomey by Pennsylvania voters.
Fast forward to this week, and there are now even more questions about the junior Senator from Pennsylvania’s health.
On Wednesday Night, Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed Hospital to receive treatment for clinical depression.
Chief of staff Adam Jentleson said in a statement, “Last night, Senator John Fetterman checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to receive treatment for clinical depression. While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks. On Monday, John was evaluated by Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Attending Physician of the United States Congress. Yesterday, Dr. Monahan recommended inpatient care at Walter Reed. John agreed, and he is receiving treatment on a voluntary basis. After examining John, the doctors at Walter Reed told us that John is getting the care he needs, and will soon be back to himself.”
The New York Times reports, “Mr. Fetterman declined to be interviewed for this story. But aides and confidantes describe his introduction to the Senate as a difficult period, filled with unfamiliar duties that are taxing for someone still in recovery: meetings with constituents, attending caucus and committee meetings, appearing in public at White House events and at the State of the Union address, as well as making appearances in Pennsylvania.”
The Times and the Democrats they prop up would have Americans believe that Fetterman is in good physical health and in perfect cognitive health, but some “duties” are too “taxing” for him?
He can’t do strenuous stuff like “meeting with constituents,” “attending meetings,” and “appearing in public?”
The simple truth is that this man was never fit to be Senator.
It would be one thing if he was a state-level official.
If that were the case then Pennsylvanians could make whatever bone-headed decisions they like at the ballot box and they would simply be Pennsylvania problems.
But as one of only 100 members of the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” Fetterman is in a position to impact national policy and it seems he is simply not up to it.
That has led to consistent rumors during the short time he’s been in the Senate, and even before the election, that Fetterman’s spouse Gisele Barreto Fetterman was angling to eventually replace him as Pennsylvania’s junior Senator.
While the hope is that John Fetterman gets all the help he needs to improve his physical and mental health, if it turns out that the “checking himself into the hospital for clinical depression” is the cover story for why he’s going to resign, Americans deserve answers as to why Democrat Party bosses chose to purposely foist a compromised man on the public to later install someone never elected in his place.
Political Animal News will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
