18 months ago, while John Fetterman was recovering from a near fatal stroke, the Pennslyvania Democrat often gave interviews alongside his wife, nonprofit executive Gisele Fetterman.
Lately, Gisele Fetterman has become absent from her husband’s interviews. She even deleted her Twitter account late last year… and she’s raised eyebrows by largely vanishing from the public eye.
In November, Gisele said that she was “on a social media break that may last a month or forever.”
She has barely returned since then. She’s posted on Facebook three times, and she was spotted on television earlier this month. However, she has yet to reactivate her Twitter account and is no longer appearing next to her husband in interviews.
Some observers have guessed that she’s simply become too famous to handle all her own press. Others have pointed out that other celebrities have also stopped posting lately, perhaps as part of a trend.
However, one writer at the conservative blog Red State had a different theory.
The blogger speculated that Gisele Fetterman wants to recede from the public eye amid the border crisis.
After all, Gisele Fetterman came to the U.S. illegally at the age of seven, and she received a green card only after “15 years of living in the shadows,” according to her husband’s website.
Sen. Fetterman has recently distanced himself from the far-Left’s positions on illegal immigration and from President Joe Biden’s mismanagement of the border.
“I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have a secured border,” the senator told The New York Times last month in a Zoom interview. “I would never put Dreamers in harm’s way, or support any kind of cruelty or mass expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people. But it’s a reasonable conversation to talk about the border.”
Gisele Fetterman could be considered a “Dreamer. After her childhood arrival, she likely could have cited the DREAM Act to apply for citizenship, if the DREAM Act were ever passed.
Take a look at what’s changed —
I attempted to ask Lt. Gov. John Fetterman if he was satisfied on the construction progress of the Fern Hollow Bridge prior to @POTUS Biden's speech on October 20, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fetterman's wife tells me that they are there to celebrate and not do interviews. pic.twitter.com/LfLaXMZTpB
— Kyle Mazza (@KyleMazzaWUNF) October 20, 2022
Senator John Fetterman says America is “not sending their best and brightest” to Congress, in a recent interview. pic.twitter.com/XwJ3zDR8hi
— PocketCast News (@PocketCastNews) October 12, 2023
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