Video by John Fetterman, who argues about the aircraft's seat belt

A video that was shot at the beginning of this year, in which Senator John Fetterman, a democrat from Pennsylvania, who argued Pennsylvania's Democrat with a flight crew member over his seat belt on a flight to Pittsburgh Intelligencer of New York magazine Report called up questions about his health.

Newsweek has contacted Fetterman's press team to make a comment on Saturday by e -mail.

Why is it important

The video of the oral back and forth between the senator and a crew member comes shortly after current and former employees are concerned about his health in one Intelligencer Article published on Friday. The article reports that Adam Jentleson, his former chief of staff, a medical director of Walter Reed, announced last May that he feared that the Fetterman was “on a bad trajectory” and feared that the senator “will no longer be with us”.

In the article, Fetterman dismissed the concerns and allegations and called it “angry employees who say things that either untrue or, that is, the business in which we are in ourselves”.

Fetterman's health has been a focus since he suffered a stroke in the 2022 interludes just a few days before winning the area code for Pennsylvania. The former governor of Pennsylvania Leutnant defeated the Republican Mehmet Oz despite the concerns about his health in an important victory of the Senate for Democrats.

What to know?

The aircraft argument, which took place in February Intelligencer The article as a moment when Fetterman's behavior “went public” and “moments like this to explain more and more difficult for the employees,” the play says.

Fetterman was recorded on a flight to Pittsburgh, who turned out with a member of the flight crew in a back and forth Intelligencer identified as a pilot.

The air member asked the senator whether he has his seat belt and Fetterman replies: “Yes, it is,” said later: “I created my seat belt.” Parts of the video are inaudible, especially with regard to the answers from Fetterman.

The crew member noticed several times that the seat belt of a passenger “must be visible at all times for the crew – it is a federal regulation”. The member noticed: “And at the moment it is not visible.” The passengers must have their seat belts attached their seat belts during the taxi, start and country as well as the lighting sign of the “fastening belt”.

“We have one [seat belt] Extender, if you want that, “said the flight team member and added:” It would make it bigger so that it could work outside your sweatshirts, would that work? “

The beginning of Fetterman's answer is inaudible, but then it can be heard: “The conversation doesn't really have to continue. My seat belt is switched on.”

“Sir, if you want to go to Pittsburgh, it is simple: you have to follow our instructions, otherwise you will be asked to get out of the plane. We don't ask much,” said the airline employee.

It is unclear what happens after the end of the video, whether Fetterman receives a seat belt to show that he is wearing it.

Some of the social media posts that the video of Fetterman share have drawn more than a million views, including one of the conservative journalist Nick Sortor, who had 1.2 million views on Saturday afternoon, and another from Brendan Hartnett, a research assistant at Longwell Partners, with more than 1.5 million views.

The combination of Fetterman's failure to keep his treatment after the stroke, to which employees included mandatory blood streets, and, according to the employees, his depression led to regular episodes either inwardly directed or outburst. Some told Intelligencer That they believed that some of his controversial opinions could be the result of his mental health when the senator claimed that he was the “best version” of himself in an interview in April.

What people say

The former democratic and independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona published on X on Friday at X Intelligencer Article: “Despicable Hit Piece about @Johnfetterman- I wish I would be surprised that someone would publish an obvious Vendenda Re: a man's medical journey. What a strange medical stalker. For the former employee: my advice on her is what your parents did. Get a job, sir.”

Richard Hanania, President of the Center for Studying Party and ideology (CSPI), wrote about X: “Fetterman's former chief of staff is concerned about his mental health. The signs he sees [President Donald] Trump and Elon [Musk]! It is astonishing how normal behavior is seen differently everywhere in the two conservative main ladders. “

The conservative journalist Nick Sortor released the video on X on May 2nd and wrote: “WTF?! Senator John Fetterman was caught on video by lifting his flight to Pittsburgh because he wanted to argue with the pilot about having to wear a seat belt. Is he drunk? Or just a legitimate slob?” Rules for you, but not for me.

Derrick Evans, the former delegate of the state of West Virginia and an excessive participant on January 6, 2021, wrote in a Friday X Post: “The Democrat Senator John Fetterman (PA) just kept his flight to Pittsburgh from the start because he wanted to argue with the pilot about having to wear a seat belt. Even more funnier because this is a federal regulation. If you don't like it, you suggest a bill, Mr. Senator.”

Claude Taylor, photographer and political employee, who previously worked in President Bill Clinton's White House, wrote on X: “I'm sorry. With @johnfetterman, something is very wrong and we have to face it.”

What happens next?

Fetterman is next to re -election in 2028.