The former Fetterman Adjutant expressed the doctor of the mental health of Senator concerned

The former chief of staff of the Senator John Fetterman, the Democrat of Pennsylvania, was so alerted last year about the unpredictable behavior of his ex-boss that he wrote a long letter to his doctor who warned that the senator was out of control and that his mental health could result in his life.

“I am worried that John, when John stays on his current trajectory, will not be with us for long,” Adam Jentleson, the former chief of staff, wrote to a doctor on May 20 who had treated Mr. Fetterman in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

According to former helpers who are still connected to his decreasing circle, the behavior of Mr. Fetterman is sometimes worried. Other former employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity report that their colleagues were sometimes afraid of being in the presence of the senator when he was in a mood.

They have also been warned for a long time not to get into a car if Mr. Fetterman is at the wheel because of his dangerous driving habits. His volatile and worrying behavior that the helpers noticed last year has only increased since the election, said people who spent the time with him. This broke up with a time when his politics became more conservative when he observed his home state of Pennsylvania for Mr. Trump.

“He doesn’t see his doctors,” Jentleson wrote to the medical director last year, who supervised his hospital stay from 2023 to mental health problems. “I am not sure when he last saw a cardiologist, but I don’t think he has seen one since his release.

The letter from the New York Times was first reported by the New York Magazine.

In a statement, Mr. Fetterman said that “my actual doctors and my family have confirmed that I am very well.” He named the article of the New York magazine article as “HIT piece” and suggested that Mr. Jentleson and the author of the article Ben Terris were “Best Friends” with a common ax and that they “related anonymous, angry employees with lies or distorted half-truths”.

(Mr. Terris revealed in his article that Mr. Jentleson is a personal friend.)

On Friday, a spokesman for Mr. Fetterman also threw questions about the motives of Mr. Jentleson, who publicly make a deeply personal letter in view of the stigms that are already available in men with regard to mental health.

Mr. Jentleson refused to answer.

Mr. Fetterman, the first Senator from Pennsylvania, who had an almost fatal stroke during his campaign, spent six weeks in Walter Reed, which was treated for clinical depression in 2023. When he was released, Mr. Fetterman seemed to have shot a corner. He began to adapt to his life in the Senate, mixed it with reporters and colleagues in the corridors and regarded it as a unique responsibility to comment on mental health problems.

“It is a burden, but also a privilege to talk about it,” he told the New York Times in an interview in 2023.

The auditorial processing problems associated with his stroke also seemed to be reduced, and Mr. Fetterman started to talk to people without having to rely on audio transcription.

When he got used to life as a senator, Mr. Fetterman also became more conservative, mainly in Israel, but also in a number of other topics. The senator was the first democrat to met Mr. Trump on his estate Mar-A-Lago after the election with Mr. Trump, and seemed to believe that the search for similarities was politically well-versed in a moment when his state was further swung.

Mr. Fetterman, an enthusiastic Fox News observer, considered whether the Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, a former weekend host for “Fox & Friends”, was predominantly. The vote would have signaled a green light to a cabinet officer that was exposed to the allegations of excessive drinking and abuse of women who made it difficult for Republican senators to stand behind them.

It is not everyone who has worked closely with him that Mr. Fetterman’s political transformation or his current challenges are directly related to the crisis to mental health that sent him to the hospital for the first time ago. But in his letter, Mr. Jentleson describes an unstable behavior, which he says that he is failed by the Senator to follow the medical plan, including taking prescription medication that was presented by his doctors.

“John pushed out everyone who should keep him in his recovery plan,” wrote Mr. Jentleson in the letter to Dr. David Williamson, the medical director of the Unity of Neuropsychiatry/Traumatic brain injury in Walter Reed. “We don’t know if he takes his medication and his behavior often indicates that he is not.”

In the letter he said that people near Mr. Fetterman often warned the “warning signs”, including “conspiratorial thinking, megalomania (for example, he claims to deal with the most knowledgeable source for Israel and Gaza for Israel and Gaza, but his sources are only what he reads in the news. is obvious. “

He said Mr. Fetterman spent most of the time to scroll on his phone and formulate tweets, and that things were “tense” with his wife Gisele.

“He is involved with risky behavior. He ruthlessly drives. He recently bought a weapon,” Jentleson wrote and noticed that buying a firearm was a warning sign that he had been instructed to report to a doctor.

In a statement by New York magazine, Gisele Fetterman denied the claims in Mr. Jentleson’s letter and accused him of lying about the condition of her husband.

In the past few months, Ms. Fetterman has presented a uniform front with her husband. After the election, she accompanied him during his visit to Mar-A-Lago and for a meeting in Israel last month with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Nevertheless, many employees remain concerned about working for Mr. Fetterman, whose mood can change dramatically from one day to the next. His driving remains a special concern.

The senator has long been known as a ruthless driver and sometimes goes more than 70 miles per hour in a zone of 30 miles per hour. Last year he and his wife and a 62-year-old woman were taken to the hospital after ending the woman’s car at the Eisenhower Memorial Highway in West Maryland.

According to the police report, Mr. Fetterman drove far beyond the speed limit of 70 miles per hour. Pennsylvania records stated that Mr. Fetterman had at least two previous driving violations in the state in which he ran over the speed limit more than 20 miles per hour.