John Fetterman's office is slammed for doctoring transcript

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Fetterman has only recently returned to Congress after he was diagnosed with depression earlier this year

It came to light after a Washington Post reporter deleted a tweet featuring quotes from the senator's office regarding the grilling of a banking exec

Sen. John Fetterman's office is accused of doctoring his speeches in official transcripts in order to make him sound more coherent

Fetterman has only recently returned to Congress after he was diagnosed with depression earlier this year

It came to light after a Washington Post reporter deleted a tweet featuring quotes from the senator's office regarding the grilling of a banking exec

Sen. John Fetterman's office is accused of doctoring his speeches in official transcripts in order to make him sound more coherent

Democratic Senator John Fetterman's office has been accused of smoothing over transcripts of his congressional appearances to hide the stroke victim's struggles to articulate himself.

During a session about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank Tuesday, Fetterman was filmed saying: 'The Republicans want to give a work requirement for SNAP. You know, for a uh, uh, uh, a hungry family has to have these, this kind of penalties, or these some kinds of word — working uh, require — Shouldn't you have a working requirement, after we sail your bank, billions of your bank?,' the liberal senator said during the session.

'Because you seem we were preoccupied, uh when, then SNAP requirements for works, for hungry people, but not about protecting the tax, the tax papers, you know, that will bail them out of whatever does about a bank to crash it,' he continued in the verbatim transcript.

But a release of Fetterman's remarks shared by his office with Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein later was markedly different.

'Shouldn't you have a working requirement after we bail out your bank? Republicans seem to be more occupied with SNAP requirements for hungry people than protecting taxpayers that have to bail out these banks,' the 'official' version, issued by Fetterman's office, read.

A Fox News Digital review showed Tuesday's incident wasn't the only time that the transcripts released did not match recordings of him actually speaking. Transcripts later released by his office revealed a clean, coherent version of his remarks.

Fetterman, who suffered a stroke a year ago, only recently returned to Congress after being hospitalized with depression. But his health has been called into question as he continues to struggle with cognitive issues during Senate hearings.

The most-recent ordeal was brought to light this week when Washington Post economics reporter Jeff Stein tweeted what Fetterman had asked Silicon Valley Bank ex-CEO Greg Becker.

'Shouldn't you have a working requirement after we bail out your bank? Republicans seem to be more preoccupied with SNAP requirements for hungry people than protecting taxpayers that have to bail out these banks.'

He later deleted the tweet and admitted that he had been provided the cleaned up quote from Fetterman's office.

'That was my fault,' Stein wrote. 'Though it captured his meaning, I deleted the tweet since some of the words in the quote were inaccurate.'

The video of the hearing revealed that the lawmaker's words were more jumbled as  he stumbled over himself, muttering several ums and other filler words.... (Read more)












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