Top Dem's Aides Blow Whistle on His Disturbing Mental State [View all]
Staffers of Senator John Fetterman have sounded the alarm over the Pennsylvania lawmaker’s health and increased isolation as he navigates Washington D.C.
Fetterman‘s health battle has been documented at length since he suffered a stroke while running for the Senate in 2022. The stroke left him with auditory processing issues for which he still uses technology to transcribe what people are saying, to help him communicate in real time.
In early 2023, he spent six weeks at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he was treated for depression, just weeks after being sworn into office.
But a feature in New York Magazine has shed new light on the 55-year-old Democrat as former and current aides shared an inside look at what they’ve perceived as red flags with their boss’s mental state and erratic, even manic, behavior.
Some of the staffers, who were described as “his truest believers” are now questioning his fitness to be a senator. The article said they worry not just about him being a risk to the Democratic Party, but also to himself.
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Fetterman‘s behavior was so concerning that his former chief of staff Adam Jentleson wrote a letter to the medical director of the traumatic brain injury and neuropsychiatry unit at Walter Reed in May 2024.
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This article breaks my heart too. I have been worried about him since his stroke and don't think he is at all the same guy who ran for senator. A stroke, as I used to tell my patients' families, is the same as being hit with a baseball bat---it's a traumatic brain injury and can have severe lasting effects, although sometimes none at all.
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