Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R, WI) who yelled "lies" during the #StateOfTheUnion2024 has a history of crazy outbursts

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@MarkPocan
Ok, I’ll admit I tweet a lot about ⁦@derrickvanorden
⁩, Wisconsin’s embarrassingly unbalanced US Representative from WI-3.

The following article does a very good job explaining the many unhinged parts of Derrick. Don’t know him? Try this quick read.

https://twiitter.com/MarkPocan/status/1766590489640182124?s=20

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.)


The congressman, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) who yelled "lies" during the #StateOfTheUnion2024 has a history of crazy outbursts

https://motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/derrick-van-orden-state-of-the-union-lies/ via @MotherJones


March 8, 2024
The Congressman Who Yelled “Lies” During the State of the Union Has a History of Crazy Outbursts
Usually directed at teens.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/derrick-van-orden-state-of-the-union-lies/

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) has an obvious problem with anger management. The latest example came on Thursday when the freshman Republican from Wisconsin shouted “lies” at President Joe Biden during the State of the Union.

The interruption came after Biden criticized Donald Trump for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Fellow Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan has demanded that Van Orden apologize for his conduct, saying that Van Orden “continues to embarrass Wisconsin and the United States Congress with his constant unbecoming behavior.”

Van Orden defended his conduct in a radio interview on Friday in which he claimed that Biden’s speech “could have been delivered by Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong or President Xi.” In some respects, Thursday’s outburst was a sign of progress. Unlike two previous incidents, Van Orden was shouting at an adult this time.


Van Orden got in trouble last year for yelling at a group of 16- and 17-year-old Senate pages for lying on the floor of the Capitol Rotunda to take photos. According to a transcript written by one of the pages immediately after the incident, Van Orden said some of the following things to the teenagers:

“Wake the fuck up you little shits.”.........................
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Van Orden never apologized. Instead, he defended taking the teenagers to task for “defiling” the Capitol and treating the building like a “frat house common room.” (After losing his first congressional race in November 2020, Van Orden went to the Capitol on January 6 but did not enter the building.)............................

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