{"id":102515,"date":"2026-02-01T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102515\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:04:10","slug":"sen-john-fetterman-tells-da-larry-krasner-to-lighten-up-after-cnn-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102515\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. John Fetterman tells DA Larry Krasner to ‘lighten up’ after CNN attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sen. John Fetterman<\/a>, D-Pa., told District Attorney of Philadelphia Larry Krasner to “lighten up” on Sunday after Krasner came after him during a CNN interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He really ought to lighten up, Francis,” Fetterman told Fox News host Jacqui Heinrich, in an apparent reference to the 1981 comedy “Stripes.”<\/p>\n

“A lot of the tough talk coming out of his office, that’s just pandering to people,” he continued.<\/p>\n

Last week, Krasner compared ICE agents to Nazis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sen. John Fetterman told Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner to “lighten up” after Krasner came after the senator for criticizing his comparison of ICE agents to Nazis. (Kevin Dietsch; Gilbert Carrasquillo\/GC Images)<\/p>\n

“This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis, that’s what they are, in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them,” Krasner said Tuesday in Philadelphia<\/a>. “If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities, we will find you, we will achieve justice.”<\/p>\n

Krasner then appeared on CNN and called Fetterman “the favorite Democratic senator of Donald Trump<\/a>,” claiming he “has completely sold out the principles on which he ran for office.”<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia DA Lawrence Krasner (Matthew Hatcher\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

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“What [Fetterman] has been doing for quite some time, for whatever reason, and we all know there may be a few reasons, is completely unacceptable for anyone who actually believes in democracy and who actually believes in the rule of law,” Krasner said.<\/p>\n

Fetterman expressed support for deporting criminal migrants<\/a> and securing the U.S. border, acknowledging that he and Krasner do not agree on every issue.<\/p>\n

“But I’m not going to criticize or attack him,” the senator said, adding, “Regardless, that’s a hard rule for anyone \u2014 don’t compare anyone to Nazis.”<\/p>\n

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who has been calling out antisemitism on both sides of the political aisle, similarly condemned Krasner’s remarks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“That kind of rhetoric is unacceptable, it is abhorrent, and it is wrong \u2014 period, hard stop, end of sentence,” the governor told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Nora Moriarty contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

Max Bacall is an Associate Editor for the Flash\/Media\/Culture team at Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., told District Attorney of Philadelphia Larry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12330,49703,4283,69,71,70,49704],"class_list":["post-102515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-anti-semitism","tag-fn-flash","tag-john-fetterman","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-the-sunday-briefing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}