Fox News star Sean Hannity shocked audiences yesterday after issuing an on-air apology to Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman during the start of a Tuesday interview.
Fetterman, who has come under fire from far-left Democrats for opposing efforts to block funding bills, supporting Operation Epic Fury, defending the Trump administration’s strikes against suspected drug smugglers and support for Israel, appeared on yesterday’s episode of “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” to discuss his more centrist leanings.
However, Hannity abruptly started the show by making a shocking confession to the Democrat.
“The untold story is, I walked up to you and I said, ‘Senator, very nice to meet you.’ I said, ‘You should hate me, I’m an asshole,’ and I don’t know if you remember that part,” Hannity told Fetterman. “I said it because, by that time, I’d begun to realize I had you all wrong. Everything I believe, thought about you, and I really believed it, was wrong.”
“That that’s a truth about today now,” Fetterman responded.
“And when you actually have a chance to sit down and have conversations, that’s why I’m always committed to doing that and sit down and I don’t, I don’t have grudges or I just, have these conversations.”
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Shortly after the apology from Hannity, Fetterman opened up about his relationship with the Trump administration.
In a stunning reveal, Fetterman confessed that he gets along with Dr. Mehmet Oz, the director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Fetterman defeated Oz for the United States Senate seat that was vacated by former Republican Sen. Pat Toomey in the November 2022 midterm election.
Fetterman said during the episode of “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” that even though the campaign was “nasty,” he respected Oz for his “brilliance.”
“You know that that campaign got nasty, but you know he’s undeniably, he’s a brilliant guy and I’ve had heart issues,” Fetterman told Hannity.
“I would have no problem to have him operate on me, either.”
“I’ve had a near death experience,” Fetterman added, referencing his May 2022 stroke.
“I don’t, I don’t carry any of that stuff and you know, we’re in the business that there is, part of it is just professional wrestling and then the more it gets more and more personal, like, that’s really in the wrong direction and things get really, really kind of bitter… and when you are openly telling people to you know, fuck off, or call these kinds of names that’s become the new normal and that’s just the wrong direction.”
Here’s Fetterman’s entire breakdown of his relationship with Oz —
Fetterman suffered a stroke in May 2022, and his campaign was accused of misleading voters about his condition in a letter released in the last weeks of the 2022 campaign.
Fetterman was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in February 2023 to undergo inpatient treatment for depression.
Recently, Fetterman has criticized his fellow Democrats for blocking a spending bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security and has broken with his party to support Operation Epic Fury, a combined American-Israeli military operation targeting the military capabilities of the theocratic regime running Iran.
Fetterman has also defended the Trump administration’s strikes against suspected drug smugglers and has criticized his party’s opposition to voter ID laws.
“For me as a Democrat, just fundamentally at the end of the day showing basic, basic, ID to vote is a very reasonable idea,” Fetterman told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo during a Feb. 17 appearance on “Mornings with Maria.”
Progressive Democrats have floated the idea of challenging Fetterman in the 2028 primary, when he will be up for reelection.