Oz Campaign Mocks Fetterman’s Stroke: If He’d Ever Eaten A Vegetable, Maybe It Wouldn’t Have Happened

The Insider reports:

Last Monday John Fetterman, Oz’s Democratic opponent, resurfaced a video Oz recorded in what he called a “Wegners” — a mishmash of the Redner’s and Wegmans grocery store chains — shopping for “crudité” and complaining about inflation. Fetterman’s comment: “in PA, we call this a veggie tray.”

In an exclusive statement to Insider, the doctor’s campaign jabbed back. “If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly,” Rachel Tripp, Oz’s senior communications advisor, said.

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An ? a day… https://t.co/0PPpM6V9Gq

— Rachel Tripp (@retripp) August 23, 2022

As someone who grew up in Hanover, PA aka “The Snack Food Capital of the World,” I’m not sure Oz’s is a winning message: Oz campaign on Fetterman: If he had ‘ever eaten a vegetable in his life,’ he wouldn’t have ‘had a stroke’ https://t.co/1CyIUBY7Xa

— Sarah Ellison (@sarahellison) August 23, 2022

What kind of doctor would mock John Fetterman for having had a stroke?

A carpetbagging quack like Mehmet Oz, that’s who. What an utter disgrace.

— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) August 23, 2022