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Derrick Van Orden: “The freedom of assembly. You can't get together more than…”

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

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Published August 15, 2022 | Video Starts at 21:05

So they censored the ability to say something. We're deplatforming or censoring these folks. The freedom of the press. They've limited the press's ability to print things that they saw as truthful. Right. 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. All this stuff, that's freedom, assembly. And if you go to a school committee meeting, you're a terrorist. Right. (21:05–21:13)

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“11,200 pounds of fentanyl was seized coming across the border. That's enough to kill 2.8 billion people.”
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“The leading cause of death for Americans from The age of 18 to 45 is fentanyl overdose.”
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“90% of the fentanyl that is brought into the United States comes across the southern border.”
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“The House of Representatives just passed a law where you can abort a child up to birth for any reason, including sex selection.”
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“In Virginia, they passed a law. If a human child survives an abortion attempt, you're not obligated to render medical aid to that child.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 25:59-26:10
“I think it was more like 85 [billion dollars of weaponry left behind in Afghanistan].”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 43:02-43:05
“57 Americans were repatriated last December. Are you aware of this? This is after the State Department said everybody's back from…”
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“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…”
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“I ran against [Ron Kind] in 2020. I lost by 2 points.”
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“Did 9 months of a campaign, all of which, other than the first 72 hours, was under Covid.”
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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 came within two points, decided to run again in 2022 because I knew that things were not going to get better in the country.”
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“The House of Representatives with a two year term was the tripwire that was built in by our founding fathers to be able to stop madness like…”
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“If you look objectively at capitalism as a governmental system, it has raised more people out of poverty than any other system.”
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“We have to stop this radical out of control spending.”
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“We have to secure our borders. A nation without borders is not a nation.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 13:20-13:25
“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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“We just had 150,000 last month.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 15:42-15:45
“Freedom of religion. They locked our churches and synagogues.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 20:26-20:48
“Freedom of speech, that's what we're talking about. So they censored the ability to say something.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 20:48-20:55
“The freedom of the press. They've limited the press's ability to print things that they saw as truthful.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 20:58-21:05
“The ability to speak to governmental officials and say that you don't agree with a particular policy has also been interrupted.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 21:17-21:27
“The first thing that the Founding Fathers wrote in the Bill of Rights in the First Amendment was the freedom of religion, the establishment…”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 21:42-21:52
“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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“Once a federal government, once that is established, the ability to get rid of that department is [impossible for me].”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 29:08-29:17
“I have five combat tours. I have about 50 of my friends have been killed fighting our enemies.”
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“In 2005, during the elections in Iraq, the top six Iraqi officials were protected by Navy SEAL platoons.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 35:25-35:33
“I protected a guy named Ibrahim El Jafri, who was a deputy vice president who became the first democratically elected prime minister in the…”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 36:03-36:14
“Giving 15 million people the ability for self-determination and they screwed it up 100%.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 37:56-38:05
“We should have maintained the levels that were presented. So if you look at the 2,500 American troops to 3,500 be rotating back and forth…”
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“The over the horizon counterterrorism capability that Joe Biden was bragging about clearly does not exist.”
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“Joe Biden abandoned [thousands of American citizens] in Afghanistan.”
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“It was an incredibly foolish, botched mission by a group of people that didn't have a plan until it was too late.”
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“The one sacred duty that a commander in Chief, the President of the United States has is to protect American civilians. And he abjectly…”
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“What President Trump said is it was a conditions-based withdrawal schedule.”
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“Biden put a, a date on a calendar. That was it. With no conditions attached.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 41:00-41:12
“The State Department gave away Bagram Airfield.”
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“The State Department did not want the optics of leaving the embassy and HKA Hamed Karzai International Airport leaving the capital of Kabul…”
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“Secretary Blinken should be relieved, Secretary Austin should be relieved. General Milley should be relieved.”
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“They're still manifest for hundreds of American citizens that are held in Afghanistan.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 43:51-43:56
“The Biden administration, by leaving these American citizens to be hostages, the Taliban could not destroy the equipment.”
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“The planning process was so far behind the eight ball that when they developed that plan, General Miller developed that plan, they knew that…”
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“We've asked Russia to negotiate for us [with Iran].”
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“Vladimir Putin would have invaded the Ukraine when President Trump was in office. I'm like, hey, dude hasn't been in office for 13 months…”
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“Navy SEALs are the most elegant practitioners of the art of war.”
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“Donald Rumsfeld wanted an additional 500 Navy SEALs because they were so effective.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 47:14-47:19
“The net gain of SEALs after combat losses, retirements... was one.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 47:24-47:32
“It was in order to boost recruitment for Navy SEALs, and it's been very effective.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 48:05-48:11
“Out of my 21 years as a seal, I spent about 16 years away from home.”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 50:49-50:53
“Everybody in that movie who was wearing an American military uniform was an active duty service man or woman while that movie was being…”
EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden | Uploaded August 15, 2022 | 51:23-51:33
“All that movie took, like, three years to film because every person except for the officer in that movie deployed to combat during the…”
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“All of those assets were lined up by the Navy. So they do these planning things. It's a Palm cycle. So they lay out training for like, three…”
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“All these platforms that were used were pre scheduled training events that were taking place. So the movie company didn't have to pay for…”
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“I dropped out of high school when I was 16 years old.”
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“I wound up getting my undergraduate degree when I was 44 years old.”
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“I got accepted to law school when I turned 50.”
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“Next year I'm going to be in Congress.”
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“This is the only nation in the world where my story can happen again and again.”
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“Look at Winsome Sears in Virginia, Lieutenant Governor, moved here from Haiti, joined the Marine Corps. She's the Lieutenant Governor of…”
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