{"id":284474,"date":"2026-09-12T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T12:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284474\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T12:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T12:40:27","slug":"sen-fetterman-makes-surprise-video-appearance-at-gop-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284474\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Fetterman Makes Surprise Video Appearance At GOP Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video appearance comes on the heels of a recent scathing report in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/policy\/john-fetterman-little-interest-senator-be74e7a3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that detailed how Fetterman &#8220;churns through staff, alienates fellow Democrats and courts Israel.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The story asserted that Fetterman shows little interest in Senate committee meetings or meetings with constituents, preferring instead to making himself available for network TV appearances. <\/p>\n<p> Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/06\/politics\/john-fetterman-staffers-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">denounced the report<\/a> as \u201clies, half-truths, innuendos, [and] smears\u201d peddled by \u201cdisgruntled staffers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report inspired criticism from fellow Democrats, including U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio of Fox Chapel near Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Between the laziness, disrespect, and willingness to carry water for a foreign government, it shows us something we already know: this man has no sense of duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The video appearance comes on the heels of a recent scathing report in the The Wall Street Journal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-284474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284474","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=284474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}