Almost as soon as Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., felt lightheaded last Wednesday and checked into George Washington University Hospital, conservatives unleashed a torrent of criticisms disguised as concerns. The pundit Carmine Sabia said he hoped that Fetterman recovers but that “the voters of Pennsylvania were lied to.” The Washington Examiner published its piece about Fetterman’s hospitalization under the headline “John Fetterman made it one month in the Senate before being hospitalized.” Fetterman suffered a stroke in May as he was running for the U.S. Senate seat, and he was forced to take some time off the campaign trail as he recovered.
Conservatives unleashed a torrent of criticisms disguised as concerns.
On Friday, the same day Fetterman was released from the hospital with test results finding no evidence that he’d had a seizure or another stroke, The New York Times described how Fetterman was working to balance his recovery from a stroke with his new job as a senator and how his team was working to get the archaic institution that is the U.S. Senate to accommodate his needs. That report led to even more bad-faith discussions.
Referring to Fetterman’s stroke in the Times article, the senator’s chief of staff Adam Jentleson said, “What you’re supposed to do to recover from this is do as little as possible.” However, he said that Fetterman “was forced to do as much as possible — he had to get back to the campaign trail.” Julie Gunlock of the Independent Women’s Forum described Jentleson’s description of Fetterman pushing himself to win the campaign as “abuse.”
Brigitte Gabriel, the right-wing conservative activist, wrote in a tweet: “I hope John Fetterman is okay, but this is just proof he shouldn’t have been running for Senate. Shame on his wife.”
Right-wing sports pundit Clay Travis, who took over Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, tweeted: “I feel bad for the guy, Democrats — and his own family — were willing to kill him…
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