Sen. John Fetterman’s former chief of workers wrote a letter to a physician concerned with the Pennsylvania senator’s therapy for medical melancholy, detailing “warning signs” and expressing concern for the senator’s psychological well being.
New York Journal reported Friday that Adam Jentleson, who served as Fetterman’s chief of workers from 2022 to 2024, listed numerous issues within the letter, together with fear that the senator was not taking his medicine as prescribed and was not following by with checkups.
Jentleson had beforehand communicated updates in regards to the senator’s care to the general public after Fetterman checked right into a hospital in February 2023 to obtain therapy for medical melancholy. Fetterman remained there for six weeks, and declared his melancholy “in remission” when he left. Fetterman beforehand had a stroke in Could 2022, throughout his Senate marketing campaign.
One yr after Fetterman accomplished his inpatient therapy, Jentleson detailed “warning signs we discussed” to David Williamson, a physician who had helped with Fetterman’s care at Walter Reed Nationwide Army Medical Middle.
“I think John is on a bad trajectory and I’m really worried about him,” Jentleson stated in his letter, in accordance with NY Magazine. The New York Instances additionally obtained a duplicate of the letter, which was despatched through e-mail with the topic line, “concerns.”
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“Conspiratorial thinking; megalomania (for example, he claims to be the most knowledgeable source on Israel and Gaza around but his sources are just what he reads in the news — he declines most briefings and never reads memos); high highs and low lows; long, rambling, repetitive and self centered monologues; lying in ways that are painfully, awkwardly obvious to everyone in the room,” Jentleson stated, in accordance with NY Magazine.
Jentleson additionally expressed fear about Fetterman buying a gun, and stated he’d warned others to not get in a automotive with Fetterman if the senator was driving.
The New York Instances reviews Fetterman known as the NY Magazine article — which additionally detailed the issues of different staffers and alleged frightened feedback from Fetterman’s spouse Gisele — a “hit piece,” and stated “my ACTUAL doctors and my family affirmed that I’m very well.” Gisele Fetterman informed NY Magazine Jentleson informed her “scary, untrue stories about John’s health.”
Throughout his time within the Senate, Fetterman has change into often called a staunch ally for Israel, and has been extra keen to interrupt with progressive Democrats on numerous points.
He was the primary sitting Democratic senator to meet with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after he defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election.
