John Fetterman’s communications director trashes senator’s ‘less nuanced’ Israel views: ‘Don’t agree with him’
She’d better hope her boss doesn’t see this.
Sen. John Fetterman’s communications director, Carrie Adams publicly badmouthed her boss’s views on Israel and admitted she differs with him over the Mideast conflict.
“I don’t agree with him,” Adams bluntly told The Free Press about Fetterman’s views on Israel.
“I have a sense that his international views are a lot less nuanced than my generation, because when he was growing up, it was might makes right, and for my generation and younger who, of course, are the ones protesting this, they have a much more nuanced view of the region,” she added.
Fetterman (D-Pa.), 55, has emerged as one of the most pro-Israel voices among Democrats in both chambers of Congress.
At times, he has clashed with anti-Israel protesters and even butted heads with his own staff on the hot-button issue that has divided the Democratic Party.
Adams joined his comms shop back in April after Joe Calvello, Fetterman’s prior director of communications, resigned in protest over his unabashed support for Israel.
He later joined Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office as a chief strategy officer.
“What’s happening right now is not only egregious, it is genocidal,” in reference to Israel, Johnson recently told Mother Jones.
Around the same time as Calvello’s exit, Fetterman’s prior deputy communication director Nicholas Gavio also left his office.
Adams previously worked at Meta, where she served on the policy team and helped conduct outreach to the White House and Democrats in Congress.
The Post contacted her for comment.
Fetterman is planning to skip the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week — something that he insisted to The Free Press had nothing to do with the party infighting over the Israel-Hamas war.
“I’ve got three young kids, and they’re out of school,” the Keystone State Democrat told the outlet. “That’s four days I can spend with my children.”
The Pennsylvania senator also admitted that he has been dismayed at how some members of his party have navigated the Israel-Hamas war.
“I’ve been frustrated by some of my members and how they’ve chosen to handle that situation,” Fetterman told the outlet. “I don’t agree with a lot of their views, but whatever kinds of political choices or any kind of political costs that I’ve incurred throughout all that, I don’t care.”
When he ran for the Senate in 2022, Republicans roundly bashed him as a far-left Democrat. But amid his willingness to break from his party, some Republicans have had praise for him.
“He’s made more sense than a lot of people in the past few months, in all fairness. He actually has; I commend him on that,” former President Donald Trump mused during a rally in Pennsylvania where he was stumping with Republican Senate hopeful Dave McCormick.
