Fetterman Scolds Democrats: I Stood Up For Erika Kirk, “Can’t We Just Be More Kind To A Widow?”
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) chastised his Democratic colleagues for not standing up for Erika Kirk at the State of the Union in an interview on FOX News Channel’s “America Reports.”
BILL HEMMER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: So the New York Times wrote up the following moment as a ploy that was the way they described it, and this was probably the moment that people will remember. When asked to stand for Americans or illegal immigrants, the president phrased it last evening. This is how that went TRUMP: So tonight, I’m inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support. The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens not illegal aliens… Isn’t it a shame? You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up. HEMMER: So, Senator, to you, do you consider that a ploy as you look back on that 12 hours later? And if I may did you sit or did you stand for that moment? FETTERMAN: Well for me, you know, I never checked to see what what the rest of people in my party It would stand up and clap. I clapped with a lot of those things that it seemed like others. Like I stood up and I clapped to recognize the family that lost their daughter the Ukrainian girl that was stabbed to death, you know in North Carolina. And I stood up and I clapped. That political prisoner from Venezuela, I mean, how can you not celebrate those kinds of things? And now I also celebrated all the veterans that were in the audience as well, too. And even more the political things like like Erika Kirk. I stood up and I clapped for her as well, too though. You know, can’t we just be more kind to a widow? I mean, I we just shouldn’t be — it wasn’t that long ago that a widow, you know with young children has her husband murdered. You know, how we can’t just acknowledge that is as well too, whether why people would attack her. You know whether the left or the right either. So I’m always going to stand up and clap for things that I agreed with like striking in the Iranian sites now. For me, I see I never worry about who’s standing up or clapping. If I see it I’m going to. If I don’t agree with it or whatever, I’m certainly not going to yell and scream and disrupt the whole thing.
