Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is pushing back on a New York Magazine story in which people who have worked with him expressed concern about his erratic behavior, policy shifts, and a resulting "toxic work environment."
"It's a one-source story with a couple anonymous sources," Fetterman told reporters on Tuesday. "It's a hit piece from a very left publication; there's really nothing more to say about that."
In the story, current and former aides say Fetterman is no longer the politician he was before his May 2022 stroke.
The outlet confirmed a letter by Adam Jentleson, Fetterman's former chief of staff, written last May to a physician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center who had treated the senator.
"I'm worried that if John stays on his current trajectory, he won't be with us for much longer," Jentleson wrote. "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."
Fetterman declined to address questions over whether he was taking his medication.
"It's a hit piece from anonymous sources," Fetterman said.
Some current staffers, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the outlet that they've been scared to be in Fetterman's presence and have been told never to get in a car that he is operating. Last August, the senator and his wife were involved in an early morning crash on a freeway in Maryland, with police noting that Fetterman was at fault.
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