WaPo Reporter Under Fire for Response to Gisele Fetterman Fleeing Country While Husband Suffers

A Washington Post reporter has been blasted on social media for her comment regarding Gisele Fetterman’s response to her husband’s recent hospitalization.

Gisele Fetterman is the wife of Sen. John Fetterman (D – Pa.), who earlier this month checked himself into the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be treated for clinical depression.

Instead of standing by her husband and helping him to get through this, Gisele Fetterman’s response to this unfortunate turn of affairs was to pack up the children and drive to Canada for a vacation.

“I did the first thing I could think of,” she wrote on Twitter, “Pack up and drive.” In a reply to her tweet, she stated that they had gone to Canada.

We drove straight into … Canada (and lovely Buffalo NY) (Pro Tip: always have passports ready just in case you have to run away ) We talked about lots of hard things and how we will all have to face hard things. About the need to be gentle … with all and with ourselves. pic.twitter.com/0PWQXHrbqT

— Gisele Barreto Fetterman (@giselefetterman) February 24, 2023

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In response, Colby Itkowitz of the Washington Post praised Gisele Fetterman for her actions, writing on Twitter, “May we all handle the inevitable hard times with this much grace and clarity.”

“Washington Post reporter deleted this tweet for some reason,” one Twitter user wrote.

Washington Post reporter deleted this tweet for some reason. 🤔 https://t.co/IifrcRYANx pic.twitter.com/Z41SfYYedN

— Sister Toldjah (@sistertoldjah) February 27, 2023

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Naturally, this provoked outrage from people who felt that abandoning her husband when he needed her and his children the most was not the wisest or most “graceful” course of action, and the tweet was promptly deleted.

Remember…. just like they’ve redefined the word woman, they now define “grace and clarity” as abandoning your family members during times of medical need. @colbyitkowitz

— LtBob (@ltbob77) February 28, 2023

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