Clickbait in DC: Democrat John Fetterman spotted chatting with MAGA kingmaker Steve Bannon — Internet goes wild
Senator John Fetterman was seen talking to MAGA supporter Steve Bannon at a D.C. restaurant. People were surprised because Fetterman is a Democrat. He says it was not planned. He has also recently disagreed with his party on some issues.
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Senator John Fetterman , who is a Democrat from Pennsylvania, was seen talking to Steve Bannon on Monday night. They were at a restaurant called Butterworth's in Washington D.C. This place is popular with people who support MAGA , reports said.Fetterman and Bannon talked for about 20 minutes, but they did not have dinner together. Fetterman had dinner with Matt Boyle, who works for the right-wing news site Breitbart. When reporters asked Fetterman about the meeting, he said, 'Oh my gosh, I don't have anything,' but he didn't say it was false, said Politico.Fetterman's team later told The Hill that meeting Bannon was 'inadvertent and impromptu', meaning it just happened by chance. Bannon goes to Butterworth's often. Other big Trump supporters also go there, like Kash Patel, Elon Musk, and blogger Curtis Yarvin, as stated by The Hill report.The restaurant is popular and even got called one of the best in D.C. by The Washington Post food critic. The place serves fancy food like lamb tartare, rabbit, and French fries in beef fat. This is not the first time Fetterman was with Trump-linked people. In January, he had dinner with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as per the reports.Some Democrats were not happy about that Mar-a-Lago dinner. Fetterman has been going against his own party a lot lately, especially on immigration issues. He was the only Democrat to support the Laken Riley Act, which says undocumented people who steal should be automatically detained, according to the report by The Hill.On Monday, he also blamed his party for not saying anything about the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles. He called those protests 'anarchy and true chaos.'They met by chance at a D.C. restaurant, and it wasn't a planned meeting.Not fully, but he has taken some stands that go against his party, especially on immigration.
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