Adam Jentleson spent the better part of the Trump years going to interviews and insisting that Trump was mentally unfit for office and he even warned against normalizing mental illness. Jentleson was the Deputy Chief of Staff for Harry Reid, one of the most crooked Senators in history.
Pres. Trump on Puerto Rico relief efforts: "This is an island. Surrounded by water. Big water, ocean water." https://t.co/HarcUS5aO0 pic.twitter.com/WtPFpl4udl
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 29, 2017
Discussing Trump's mental health should not be taboo. It's a matter of national security and the questions are real.https://t.co/vaGngg3DCD
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) March 4, 2017
Trump gives a shout out to Pavarotti, calls him "a good friend of mine".
Pavarotti died 10 years ago in 2007. —via @MSNBC pic.twitter.com/MHMT065mh3
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 20, 2017
Great piece by @MarkLeibovich. And/but the danger of mood stories is that they normalize Trump’s apparent mental illness by laundering abnormal levels of instability and irrationality through more accessible frames like anger and frustration. https://t.co/7tFc0hYlBQ
— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) November 30, 2018
So, what do you suppose Jentleson does for a living now? With all of his experience on mental health, he is doing exactly what any good Democrat would be doing. His job is to both defend his boss and his cognitive ability and do his level best to normalize mental health. That’s right. He is the Chief of Staff for John Fetterman. It would be hilarious if not for the fact that he is helping to take advantage of an incredibly sick man. I call it elderly abuse. He is trying to prop up his boss in order to keep him in office past the date for a special election.
Excerpt from Jentleson’s Wikipedia page:
Jentleson began his career as a policy researcher and speechwriter for the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign.[5] He then served as Manager of Congressional Affairs at the Center for American Progress, speechwriter for the 2008 presidential campaign of John Edwards.
Jentleson served as communications director and later, deputy chief of staff, for United States Senator Harry Reid from 2010 to 2016.[6][7] The New York Times published his essay, “The Side of Harry Reid Most People Never Saw” the day after Senator Reid’s passing on December 28, 2021.[8]
Jentleson is a columnist for GQ, Jentleson has also contributed commentary to The New York Times, Politico magazine, and The Washington Post. His book, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, provides an extensive critique of the United States Senate, particularly the rise of the filibuster during the 19th century and 20th century to slow the advancement of civil rights legislation for American minorities, particularly African Americans.[9][10]
In mid-November 2022, Pennsylvania’s newly elected U.S. Senator John Fetterman announced the appointment of Jettleson as transition committee co-chair[11] and, a few weeks later, in early December, named Jentleson as his chief of staff.[12][13]
Fortunately for Jentleson, once Fetterman is gone from office, he can move on from there. Unfortunately, Dianne Feinstein is retiring, but there is always Bernie Sanders, where his expertise in mental health could be a major advantage. He just missed an opportunity recently when Joe Biden needed to replace his chief of staff.
