WASHINGTON – Why won’t western Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden just tell the truth about the night of July 26 jn the U.S. Capitol rotunda. That was the question – indeed, an an accusation — by fellow Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan of Madison. Pocan, a Democrat, was among a choir responding to Van Orden\’s profane rant on a group of teen-age Senate pages after hours in the rotunda. Said Pocan: “For someone to perhaps drunkenly, and definitely belligerently, yell at these kids for enjoying our nation’s Capitol is just stupid. He would be best to say it was stupid and just move on.” Pocan said that Van Orden has a record of bad judgment. He noted that Van Orden, a Trump supporter, had traveled to Washington on January 6, 2021, for the Trump rally that led to the insurrectionist attack on the Capitol. Pocan connected the rotunda tirade against the Senate aides to Van Orden joining the mob January 6 and marching to the Capitol – and then lying, despite photos, that he was even there. About Van Orden ordering the teen pages out of yhe rotunda, Pocan said: “Wonder if he told that to his fellow insurrectionists, who were beating police officers on the same ground?”

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