John Fetterman has ever been an eccentric characteristic connected a star-crossed path.
He is nan only United States legislator who has adopted a hoodie arsenic his charismatic uniform.
He is besides nan only 1 who suffered a changeable connected nan eve of his superior victory, making it difficult for him to speak, but won nan general election anyway.
And nan Pennsylvania Democrat doesn’t toed nan statement connected each statement positions, particularly erstwhile it comes to his fierce support for Israel.
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. ,talks pinch newsman aft nan legislature luncheons successful nan U.S. Capitol connected Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
But now comes a troubling communicative successful New York Magazine that casts nan legislator successful a overmuch darker light.
The New York Times put it this way: Fetterman’s erstwhile main of unit "was truthful alarmed pinch his ex-boss’s erratic behaviour past twelvemonth that he wrote a lengthy missive to his expert informing that nan legislator was spiraling retired of power and that his intelligence wellness issues could costs him his life."
The staffer, Adam Jentleson, added successful penning Fetterman’s Walter Reed doctor: "I’m worried that if John stays connected his existent trajectory he won’t beryllium pinch america for overmuch longer."
Other erstwhile unit members told nan Times that colleagues were sometimes "frightened" to beryllium successful his beingness erstwhile he was manic, and that his "volatile" behaviour has gotten worse since nan election.
Fetterman issued a statement saying that "my ACTUAL doctors and my family affirmed that I’m very well." He called nan mag communicative a "hit piece" and promoted nan thought that its author, Ben Terris, was "best friends" pinch Jentleson and that they "sourced anonymous, disgruntled staffers pinch lies aliases distorted half-truths."
Terris, for his part, disclosed successful nan article that Adam Jentleson is simply a "personal friend." So it wasn’t a authorities secret.
Jentleson wrote to nan aesculapian head who supervised Fetterman’s hospitalization for mental wellness problems successful 2023: "He does not spot his doctors. I americium not judge erstwhile he past saw a cardiologist, but I don’t deliberation he’s seen 1 since he was released. He agelong agone ordered america to extremity putting regular drop-bys pinch Dr. Monahan connected his schedule, contempt nan truth that he had agreed to those arsenic portion of nan plan." Brian Monahan is nan Capitol and Supreme Court physician.
Fetterman was nan first Democratic legislator to sojourn Trump, who carried Pennsylvania and nan different plaything states, astatine Mar-a-Lago.
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Jentleson wrote different doctor: "We do not cognize if he is taking his meds, and his behaviour often suggests he is not."
Among different things, wrote Jentleson, his ex-boss drives recklessly and precocious bought a gun. There are "high highs and debased lows; long, rambling, repetitive and self-centered monologues lying successful ways that are painfully, awkwardly evident to everyone successful nan room."
Joe Biden, who does his first post-White House question and reply today, pinch his woman connected "The View," is simply a full different story.
His problem was not slump but making different Democrats depressed erstwhile he insisted connected moving for a 2nd term. We now cognize really his woman and his unit protected him from nan property and moreover his ain unit to debar revealing his intelligence decline.
And that blew up connected them successful nan horrible statement pinch Trump. Ron Klain has gone connected nan grounds pinch his vexation that his longtime leader walked retired connected 1 prep convention and fell dormant by nan pool.

Joe Biden dropped retired of nan 2024 title aft a disastrous statement capacity against Donald Trump. ( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Now comes a caller revelation successful a forthcoming book by Josh Dawsey of nan Wall Street Journal, Tyler Pager of nan New York Times and Isaac Arnsdorf of nan Washington Post.
The Times writes, citing nan book, that "his apical White House aides debated having him acquisition a cognitive trial to beryllium his fittingness for a 2nd term" successful nan early weeks of 2024.
Here was nan dilemma, according to "2024: How Trump Retook nan White House and nan Democrats Lost America." And that’s an meticulous title.
Biden’s closest aides "worried that nan specified truth of his taking 1 would raise caller questions astir his intelligence abilities."
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Which is precisely what would person happened. Rather than persuading nan erstwhile president not to run, they wouldn’t moreover fto him do a soft-focus Super Bowl interview.
During this play successful 2022, nan Times published an question and reply pinch David Axelrod, nan erstwhile Obama White House charismatic turned CNN commentator. Axelrod said Biden "looks his age"--then 79–and added: "The stark reality is nan president would beryllium person to 90 than 80 astatine nan extremity of a 2nd term, and that would beryllium a awesome issue."
Axelrod angrily called Klain, past nan main of staff, to inquire why he was fueling doubts astir a Democratic president.
"There’s nary Obama retired there, Axe," Klain told him, according to nan book. "Who’s going to do it if he doesn’t do it?"

John Fetterman staffer Adam Jentleson said: "I’m worried that if John stays connected his existent trajectory he won’t beryllium pinch america for overmuch longer." (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
This was besides astir nan clip that typical counsel Robert Hur, declining to prosecute Biden connected nan classified documents he voluntarily turned over, called nan president "a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged man pinch a mediocre memory." That seems incredibly mild now. Biden held a news convention to state his representation was fine, but referred to nan president of Egypt arsenic nan president of Mexico.
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Talk astir bully days and bad days. Everyone has bad days, but it has nationalist and world resonance erstwhile it involves a legislator aliases a president.
None of this should beryllium utilized to stigmatize those pinch intelligence wellness aliases intelligence acuity problems. But location are reddish flags present that deepen our knowing of what’s really happening.
Howard Kurtz is nan big of FOX News Channel's MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 AM-12PM/ET). Based successful Washington, D.C., he joined nan web successful 2013 and regularly appears on Special Report pinch Bret Baier and The Story pinch Martha MacCallum among different programs.