TPM/Josh Marshall Podcast - I Beg Your Pardon (Fetterman trying to get war criminal Netanyahu a pardon from Herzog)

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the-josh-marshall-podcast/i-beg-your-pardon/

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) accepted a silver-plated pager from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a gift commemorating Israel's September 2024 attack on Hezbollah operatives that killed over 30 people and injured over a thousand. @TrackAIPAC via X

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1. If he can't...

Understand that -45 can't do that then he needs to resign.

[Celerity]

2. I mistyped, sorry, it is Israel's president Herzog he is asking to pardon Netanyahu

Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel’s President to Pardon Netanyahu

In a previously unreported letter, the Pennsylvania senator pushed to save Netanyahu’s political career.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fetterman-letter-netanyahu-pardon

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) prepared a letter in recent days asking Israel’s president for a favor. In a previously unreported letter obtained by TPM, Fetterman asked Israel’s President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“In a world this dangerous, I question whether any democracy can afford to have its head of government spending valuable hours, day after day, in a courtroom rather than the situation room,” Fetterman wrote in a copy of the letter, dated Dec. 2, obtained by TPM.

Netanyahu formally asked Herzog for a pardon late last month. Fetterman, expressing surprise that TPM had a copy of the letter, stood by it in a brief Thursday interview.

“I support it and it’s a pointless distraction,” he said, seemingly referring to the charges against Netanyahu. “I fully support it and I stand on the letter.”

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3. Thanks...

In that case, he needs to stay in his lane.

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4. What a stupid asshole. Why is this his business FFS???