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Peter Savodnik: I Was Wrong About John Fetterman
Peter Savodnik: I Was Wrong About John Fetterman
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania at a luncheon yesterday in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
I thought the Pennsylvania senator was a trust fund kid pretending to have tough guy morals. But after October 7, he proved to be the real deal.
By Peter Savodnik
12.12.23 — U.S. Politics
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Peter Savodnik: I Was Wrong About John Fetterman

In September 2022, I staked out John Fetterman’s home, just east of Pittsburgh. 

Fetterman was running for Senate, and I thought I might find him in the industrial-style loft he shares with his wife, Gisele, and their three kids, in a renovated car dealership across the street from the husk of a steel works.

I thought I knew exactly who Fetterman was: a l…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair, as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other venues—reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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