Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has found himself to be an outlier among his Democratic colleagues once again, this time as part of his direct appeal for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .

Fetterman told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that his pardon request, made in a recent letter to Herzog that was first reported by Talking Points Memo , for Netanyahu to be cleared of his yearslong public corruption trial would be in the wartime nation’s best interest.

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