GOP Rep Defends Tirade Against Teen Capitol Pages

July 27, 2023 Republicans, Trump cultists

“The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead. If anyone had been laying a series of graves in Arlington National Cemetery, what do you think people would say?” – GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden, defending his obscene tirade lobbed at teenage Capitol pages who were lying on their backs to take photos of the Capitol dome.

According to one page, Van Orden shouted, “Wake the fuck up you little shits. What the fuck are you all doing? Get the fuck out of here. You are defiling the space you pieces of shit. Who the fuck are you? You jackasses, get out!”

As I noted earlier today, Van Orden attended the riot at the US Capitol, was once arrested for attempting to bring a loaded gun onto a plane, and last year checked out all the LGBTQ books in his hometown library’s Pride Month display after launching an obscene tirade at a teenage volunteer.



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