Fetterman Exposes Left’s Cruelty, Reveals Problems With Josh Shapiro – RedState

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) doesn’t seem to be shy about saying exactly what he thinks.

He showed it again with the government shutdown, which he blamed his party for causing. It started with a “yes” vote to open the government.

This earned him a lot of anger from the left. During a CNN interview with Dana Bash for his book “Unfettered,” Fetterman explained that the “most venomous and bitter” venom he had experienced came from the far left.

🚨NEW: John Fetterman *STUNS* CNN’s Dana Bash on how the left is crueler than the right🚨

FETTERMAN: “The right was saying really harsh things and names… but the left was like they wanted me to die or ‘We’re cheering for your next move’… they even have a gif… pic.twitter.com/iMRyVTssgs

– Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) November 12, 2025

Fetterman said the worst came from Bluesky, the left-wing social media haven.

And the difference is that, I mean, the right would say very crude things and names. You know, some names I won’t repeat, on television. But — but — but the — on the left, it was like they wanted me to die or want us to applaud your next move. Or maybe this depression is terrible. Why couldn’t depression have won? And I hope your children find you.

He said they even had a stroke gif and said the doctor “failed us…why did they have to save his life?” This shocked even Bash, who was shaking his head at the viciousness of the attacks. Fetterman said he didn’t know where such thinking came from, but he made it clear that it wouldn’t stop him from speaking his mind.

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Fetterman also revealed in his book that he had an altercation with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and their relationship “never recovered.” They were on the Board of Pardons together and they disagreed in a Zoom meeting about commuting sentences. Then Fetterman called him a “fucking a**hole” on a hot mic. He was so upset with him that he threatened to run against him for governor in 2022.

“I told him there were two tracks — that one and the one in which he ran for governor and me for Senate (which was the one I preferred),” Fetterman writes in his new book, “Unfettered,” from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“I wasn’t interested in friction, only in what I considered justice.”

He said he believed Shapiro was motivated by “political ambition.”

Although their relationship never recovered, he said he wished Shapiro well. But that didn’t stop him from expressing his concerns about Shapiro to Kamala Harris.

During the 2024 campaign, Fetterman privately confided his apprehensions about Shapiro to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ team as they considered potential vice presidential candidates, Politico reported at the time.

That might be one of the reasons she didn’t pick him, and it gives more credence to the questions about Shapiro if Fetterman says it too.

This may have helped defeat her. She instead chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. And then, as we all know, she lost Pennsylvania – and the presidential race.

Editor’s note: Schumer’s closure is here. Rather than putting the American people first, Chuck Schumer and radical Democrats forced a government shutdown on health care for illegal immigrants. They own that.

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