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Fetterman Accepts Trump’s Invitation to Meet
The New York Times ^
| Jan. 9, 2025, 5:45 p.m. ET
| Annie Karni
Posted on 01/09/2025 7:06:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Pennsylvania Democrat is the first senator in his party to announce a meeting with President-elect Donald J. Trump, a sign of the political times as the Republican trifecta is about to begin.
Senator John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat who used to court progressives and now routinely takes aim at the left, said Thursday that he had accepted an invitation to meet with President-elect Donald J. Trump ahead of his swearing-in, becoming the first Democratic senator to do so.
“President Trump invited me to meet, and I accepted,” Mr. Fetterman said in a statement. “I’m the senator for all Pennsylvanians — not just Democrats in Pennsylvania.”
He added: “I’ve been clear that no one is my gatekeeper. I will meet with and have a conversation with anyone if it helps me deliver for Pennsylvania and the nation.”
The meeting, which is expected to take place at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s estate in Florida, and was reported earlier by CBS News, offers Mr. Trump a chance to press Mr. Fetterman to support some of his nominees who will be up for Senate confirmation in the coming days. And it offers Mr. Fetterman an open channel of communication with a president-elect who has proved to be malleable on policies, and highly attentive to whomever he last spoke with.
His impending visit, which has yet to be scheduled, is likely to generate more outrage from the left. But that’s just the way Mr. Fetterman likes it. On Thursday, he joked to reporters that...
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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: johnfetterman; maralago; maralogo; pennsylvania
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Fetterman will get a good dinner at a minimum.
A fun trip will be had.
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:09:37 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: E. Pluribus Unum
…right-wing media outlets that once dismissed him as a vegetable…Best line of the whole excerpt. I like that they didn’t even put “vegetable” in quotation marks…even the Slimes admits that Fetterman was a vegetable.
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:13:47 PM PST
by
TXBlair
(We will not forget Benghazi.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:19:22 PM PST
by
Candor7
(Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
To: TXBlair
Fetterman seems to have recovered well.
Good on him.
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:19:42 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: TXBlair
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:21:16 PM PST
by
nwrep
To: nwrep
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:24:24 PM PST
by
TXBlair
(We will not forget Benghazi.)
To: Paladin2
Yes, he does seem to have. It’s crazy to imagine, but he seems to have actually come out better in the long run. His thinking is better, at least.
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:28:28 PM PST
by
TXBlair
(We will not forget Benghazi.)
To: TXBlair
Something knocked some sense into him.
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:30:43 PM PST
by
maro
(MAGA!)
To: maro
They have something in common. Just don’t know what it is.
To: DIRTYSECRET
Authenticity. What you see and hear is what you get with either of them, like it or not.
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:36:04 PM PST
by
pburiak
(You really think we can vote our way out of this? That’s so cute...)
To: pburiak
Trump should make Fetterman a MAGA hoodie with “Pope of Greenland” on the front.
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:47:36 PM PST
by
Orosius
(“Wake America Up Again )
To: maro
Something knocked some sense into him.I hope he can knock some sense into other rats. 🐀
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:52:20 PM PST
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’m wondering what his constituency is thinking of him?
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posted on
01/09/2025 7:55:46 PM PST
by
hoagy62
(Don't let evil win again!)
To: pburiak
Authenticity. What you see and hear is what you get with either of them, like it or not.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Exactly right, and because such authenticity has been so rare in Washington for so long, I think most sane people are looking forward to these two men doing a face-to-face.
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posted on
01/09/2025 8:08:01 PM PST
by
fortes fortuna juvat
(Never forget, the Marxist-Democrats & RINOs who would destroy our country ARE STILL HERE!)
To: hoagy62
Fetterman will be a senator for life in Pennsylvania.
A somewhat, situational conservative Democrat.
I’m a hardcore conservative lifelong PA ready, but Fetterman is gonna play big within this state!
This guy Seems to have come out of his ailment far better than he was before🤷♂️
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posted on
01/09/2025 8:40:55 PM PST
by
bantam
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
“I’m the senator for all Pennsylvanians — not just Democrats in Pennsylvania.”
As the late Tip O'Neill said, "all politics is local". Also see the even older oldie, "that's showbiz".
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posted on
01/10/2025 1:39:57 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
01/10/2025 4:07:11 AM PST
by
quilterdebbie
(We will endeavor to persevere!)
To: Paladin2
“Fetterman will get a good dinner at a minimum.”
He is more conservative than half the Republicans in congress and the senate.
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posted on
01/10/2025 4:27:58 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Drill Baby Drill!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
01/10/2025 4:44:02 AM PST
by
weezel
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