Messages obtained by New York Magazine show the Democrat mocking free healthcare, dismissing the Epstein files as a “nothing burger,” and calling Democrats hypocritical for their outrage at the killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Fetterman has been a thorn in his party’s side on a host of issues.
In January, according to the report, Fetterman sent staffers an article about how annual healthcare costs for a typical working American family are nearly $4,000.
“How should it cost? Free?” he wrote. “I don’t understand what affordability it is.”
Also in January, as the Trump administration was dragging its heels about releasing the Epstein files, Fetterman messaged a staffer: “Epstein was a nothing burger. Worst pics I’ve seen were from Clinton lol.”
Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say. Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say.
Then, after federal agents repeatedly shot Pretti in the back during anti-ICE protests, Fetterman complained that Democrats shouldn’t be taking his side because they had objected when Kyle Rittenhouse “brought a gun to a protest,” as Fetterman characterized it.
“Kyle Rittenhouse brought a gun to a protest,” Fetterman, 56, texted a staffer. “He was roundly condemned for that. Why are now democrats defending the nurse it was legal to carry. Both legal weapons. Square that.”
Unlike Pretti, though, Rittenhouse actually fired his gun. He shot three men—two fatally—during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020 after the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer. Rittenhouse was charged with two counts of homicide and one count of attempted homicide, among other charges. He was found not guilty.
Pretti’s killing, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office determined, was a homicide.
Fetterman’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.
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Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say. Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say.
You can say that again!
Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say.
Fetterman has been sounding more like a staffer, republicans say.
WHAT???
That again!
Honestly I can’t understand how he has staff anymore. Not any that want to keep working on the left.
Well, I can’t hate on the staffers.
If we’re driving along a cliff with a ravine to our right, and the brain-damaged driver just keeps pulling the wheel right because their brain is broken, if you stay with them just to keep pulling the wheel back to the left, it sounds more like a service to everyone in the car than a moral failing. Yes, we can switch drivers as soon as possible but the next rest stop is a few years away.
Wow. Deeply brain damaged. Look, what you say I public is one thing, I know you gotta gargle daddy’s balls and all, but in private? If in private you can’t tell the difference between Alex pretti and rittenhouse, then you are an idiot.
Calling the Epstein files a nothing burger? So… are you hiding something, fetters? Hmm? Something you should share with the class?
What a turd. Flush this idiot.
I know its probably the smallest issue in everything he said here, but using the 4k annual family average Healthcare cost just seems slimy. It just seems like average would be one of the worst aggregate statistics to use, just using median instead would help account for all the families using $0, and even better would be to stratify across family income and show it as median % of family income spent on Medical care.
Failing to understand why the average is so low annoys me so much.
Luxury yachts must be super affordable since most people don’t spend any money on them at all!
One of those staffers could really help us all out
The stroke should’ve taken him.
Messages obtained by New York Magazine show the Democrat mocking free healthcare, dismissing the Epstein files as a “nothing burger,” and calling Democrats hypocritical for their outrage at the killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Fetterman has been a thorn in his party’s side on a host of issues.
