Derrick Van Orden: “I wrote an email to Ron Kind, who had been in office at that…”

“What made you change your mind and enter into the very, very tough game of politics? I wrote an email to the sitting congressman and he didn't respond. It was that simple. I wrote an email to Ron Kind, who had been in office at that point for 22 years, and asked him what his stance on the impeachment of Donald Trump was for the Russian collusion hoax. And he failed to respond to me. So I did human intelligence for quite a period of time in the SEAL teams and I started looking into Rankhand and it's exceptionally difficult to find terrorists in caves in Pakistan.” (04:50–05:02)

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