In the face of more and more control of his mental health and the ability to work, Senator John Fetterman said he was unfairly ashamed to appear on the voices of the Senate and public interrogations, which in his opinion is a loss of his time, according to the New York Times article.
The first period of Pennsylvania Democrat, who former employees said Inquirer at the beginning of this month, that he did not perform the basic work of the US Senator, he said in Interview with Times published on Saturday That he is trying to prove that he is able to perform his duties after the media “armed” their absence on the Capitol to present him as mentally incapable.
Fetterman said he was following the strict protocol of his doctors after six weeks of treatment of clinical depression in 2023 and stroke in 2022.
“My doctor warned many years ago:” After public opinion, you get lend a hand in depression, people will be armed, “said Fetterman during the interview with The Times in his Kapitol office last week. “Simple things are inverted. This is what happened.”
The Times said: “It shocked me that people are ready to armament, that I received lend a hand.”
The interview appears after the spacious Article from the magazine in New York in which the former chief of Staff of Fetterman, Adam Jentleson, shared his fears about the unconventional mental health of the legislator, whether he took the necessary medications, and asked if he was ready.
Here is three interview with The Times with Fetterman. He did not return to comment on Sunday from Inquirer.
Fetterman rejected his senatorial duties
In an interview with Times Fetterman, who has left 29 out of 236 votes since January Govtrack.usThe third worst record in the Senate rejected such duties as the Commission and Casting of Procedural Voters on the Senate floor as “Performative”.
In the damage control mode, Fetterman recently began to participate in interrogations and voices, which he routinely omits, saying that he prefers to spend time with his family.
In an interview, Fetterman introduced himself as a victim of unfair attacks.
“It became the history of the policy of Belichick Girlfriend,” said Fetterman, referring to the recent media attention around the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Football Coach. “He just goes and goes.”
Fetterman said that in addition to the family he is “painful”
Fetterman, who had appeared in Pennsylvania in public since August, said that away from his children was “the worst part of his work” – and that he left his voices to spend more time at home. Inquirer reports that most of Fetterman’s omitted voices took place on Mondays or Thursdays, which are sometimes travel days for senators commuting to the and Washington.
“The voices I missed were for the most procedural,” said The Times. “I had to make a decision: to come here and put your thumb in the door for three seconds to vote procedural or spend Monday night as a dad-dad date.”
He said that he also often left Thursday’s voices because he likes to check with his father who is sick.
“I would go to visit my dad instead of voting,” he said.
Fetterman has become more isolated than his democratic colleagues
Despite the support of friends in Congress, Fetterman does not participate in the weekly lunch of democratic Kauck in Kapitol – and left the group chat. Fetterman told The Times that he can’t think of how to disable group chat notifications and that most of the conversation was not important.
“It’s mainly just a elated birthday,” he said. “On some days it is only emoji.”
As the members of the party and public opinion increased, Fetterman mocked from the suggestion that he was subject to or used by republican colleagues who defended him.
“This is offensive and patronizing,” he said. “There is no political advantage that they are nice to me. They realize what it is, and a smear.”
Fetterman rejected the growing fears of his mental well -being as “grabbing anonymous sources with grinding axes” according to The Times.
