GOP congressman says he's being 'threatened' with 'bad press' after screaming and cursing at teenagers in the Capitol late at night

Thu, 07/27/2023 - 16:54

Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin at the Capitol on November 17, 2022.
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Rep. Derrick Van Orden screamed and cursed at young Senate pages in the Rotunda on Wednesday night.
He now says he's being "threatened with bad press" for doing so.
Van Orden was notably among the thousands of Trump supporters who descended on DC on January 6.

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin screamed at a group of Senate pages — high school-aged teenagers who work in the Senate as assistants — after coming across a group of them laying in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday evening.