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Derrick Van Orden: “Out of my 21 years as a seal, I spent about 16 years away…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden

Published August 15, 2022 | Video Starts at 50:49

I'm not an actor. And she said, well, if you did that movie, maybe your kids would know why you spent so much time away from home. Out of my 21 years as a seal, I spent about 16 years away from home. Because a seal's natural environment is combat. Right. So you're either training or you're deploying or you're recovering, and then you're training. (50:49–50:53)

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Asserts that Derrick Van Orden spent 16 out of 21 years away from home during his service as a SEAL.

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“He started with $3.1 million in the bank, 100% name recognition and a political MA.”
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“We had 158,000 ish people enter the country illegally last year, month.”
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“The last month that President Trump was in office, 15,000 people came into the country.”
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“Freedom of religion. They locked our churches and synagogues.”
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“Freedom of speech, that's what we're talking about. So they censored the ability to say something.”
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“The freedom of the press. They've limited the press's ability to print things that they saw as truthful.”
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“The freedom of assembly. You can't get together more than six people or two people. You gotta be masked. You have to have a vaccine.”
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“The ability to speak to governmental officials and say that you don't agree with a particular policy has also been interrupted.”
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“Look at what happened in the Loudoun county school boards in Virginia. The parents just said, I've had enough of this.”
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“The chances of shutting down the Department of Energy, Education and the EPA are zero.”
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“I got accepted to law school when I turned 50.”
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