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Two days after NBC News reporter Dasha Burns made headlines with her first-hand account detailing just how extensive Democratic Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman’s deterioration post-stroke was, the cackling coven of ABC’s The View had their knives out for her. They suggested Burns broke journalistic ethics, it was no big deal that Fetterman couldn’t comprehend speech and mocked Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) for supposedly having an impairment too.
After playing a portion of Burns’ report on MSNBC, co-host Whoopi Goldberg appeared to scoff at the public’s need to know a candidate’s medical history and suggested they needed to wait to see Fetterman’s records until after the election and the swearing-in:
See, because once you release your medical records, we want all your medical records. So, people are saying, why hasn't he done that? Should he put that issue to rest or do people have to wait for him to get better in – for January? Because when would he take over? He would take over in January, right?
Co-host Sara Haines agreed and argued that all he really needed to do was get a doctor’s note like he’s a kid in school too embarrassed to take gym class. “I think it would suffice,” she said, despite The View’s previous demands for all of Donald Trump’s medical records. She then seemed to suggest people, including Burns, were too dumb to understand what Fetterman’s condition was.
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