Senator John FettermanA Pennsylvania Democrat, responded to concerns about his health resulting from a published report New York magazine intelligent Last week.
Nowsweek stretched out at Fetterman’s office and New York Magazine For comment by e-mail.
Why it matters
Fetterman has faced concerns about his health from his Senate Run in 2022, when he underwent a stroke on the countryside. Despite the worries after the blow, he went to Defeat republican mehmet oz in the state of the battlefield, which was almost uniformly divided between Democrats And Republicans During the last elections.
New York magazine intelligent published an article with an interview With the former Fetterman chief of staff, Adam Jentleson, who expressed his concerns about the health of the senator and if he followed his recovery plan after the stroke.
Nowsweek contacted Jentleson to comment.
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What to know
Fetterman responded to the article in remarks to Cnn‘S Manu Raju.
“My reaction is that it is a successful piece of a source, and it may have involved two or three members of anonymous personnel and unhappy to say absolutely false things,” he said.
When asked if he had followed his recovery plan, Fetterman replied: “My doctors are like” John is great “. I am on the whole plan that it has always been.
He said that he had been “before and at the center” of his experiences with depression and that he will “obviously” serve his full mandate in the Senate.
Earlier Tuesday, he presented remarks similar to other networks, describing the article as a “story of a source” and a “successful play” Nbc News.
In additional remarks published on X, formerly Twitterby CBS Cristina Corujo de News, Fetterman, said that he did not believe that people are concerned with him.
“They are not actually worried,” he said. “It’s a successful play.”
Jentleson told the publication that Fetterman seemed to be engaged in the recovery plan after the stroke but did not follow properly and had not attended regular blood prints, a key element of the plan.
Jentleson said to Spy This fetterman “could get back into treatment at any time, and for a long time, I hoped it would do it. But it’s been too long now, and things continue to get worse.” He left Fetterman’s team in March 2024.
What people say
The commentator and progressive journalist Mehdi Hasan wrote on X Friday: “This email, a year ago, of the former chief of staff of Fetterman, and all this play by Ben Terris, clearly shows that Fetterman should not serve in the Senate. Each Democrat in the Senate should read this and be questioned on this subject – in particular Schumer.”
Former Democratic Senator and independent Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona posted on X: “A despicable success on @Johnfetterman– I would like to have been surprised that whoever published an obvious vendetta: the medical journey of a man. What a strange medical harassment. For the former staff member: my advice is to do what your parents have done. Get a job, sir. “”
What happens next
Fetterman is ready to re -elect in 2028 in Pennsylvania, who returned to the president Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential race after supporting the former president Joe Biden in 2020.
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Update 5/6/2025 2:46 PM and: This article has been updated with additional comments.