Fetterman Writes Letter Asking Israel's President to Pardon Netanyahu [View all]

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.

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