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MAGA’s Favorite Dem’s Trumpy Texts Exposed in Bombshell Leak (www.thedailybeast.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47216658

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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[–] 74 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Fetterman's brain is fried. That's why he behaves like a MAGAt.

His democrat card should have been revoked a long time ago. He's a disgrace.

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    • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    "How should it cost? Free?" he wrote. "I don't understand what affordability it is."

    Dang, he even texts like the average semiliterate MAGA chud.

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    • [–] 28 points 3 months ago

    “I don’t understand what affordability it is.”

    There's your campaign ad to remove him.

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    [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    He sounds even dumber through text some how.

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    [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Rittenhouse illegally traveled across state lines with his rifle to confront protesters, brandishing and then using that weapon.

    Pretti was in his own neighborhood, assisting a woman who was pushed to the ground, when he was gunned down. He never unholstered his weapon.

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Throw this asshole in prison along with Trump.

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    bombshell not the least bit surprising leak

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Transchemic events aside, I'm beginning to think this fuck was a MAGA ringer all along.

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    He's reserved his spot. That's for sure.

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