Ryan Grim

So I'm going to go ahead and throw up this write-up here from New York Mag, isn't it, right?

Their headline is, The man who explains Israel to John Fetterman, how a little-known writer became one of the senator's closest friends.

So this is genuinely one of the most insane stories that I've read.

Basically, it outlines how like and obviously John Fetterman had the stroke and we all saw like this drastic political change after that.

But it's gotten to the point where Israel is basically all that he talks about.

It's all that he cares about.

And apparently this guy, David Safir, is.

is his closest confidant has set up calls with Benjamin Netanyahu, went with him on his trip to Israel, and is sort of guiding his immorality on this topic in a deeply thorough way to the point where the rest of the staffers on John Fetterman's staff are just like confused and blown away and disturbed by the relationship.

He also has sort of an...

unidentified background, this guy, Safir, I'll just read a little bit from the article.

He describes himself publicly only as a, quote, business professional, and his employers and occupations on political donation forms have been ambiguous, including N slash A, consultant, self-employed.

David has never really been forthcoming about what he does, a person close to Fetterman says.

It's always like, I'm in wealth management or something.

So what is going on here, guys?

He also apparently texted a different staffer that Epstein was a nothing burger.

The worst pics that I've seen were from Clinton, LOL.

It doesn't.

Listen, the media was so complicit in pretending that Fetterman was fine until I think it was like an NBC interview towards the end of the race.

That's how bad of a candidate Mehmet Oz was for Pennsylvania Senate.

Just to be clear that John Fetterman, after his stroke, still beat Dr. Oz.