Why Is This Republican *Announcing* Death Threats Against Him?
On Thursday, Rep Drunken Van Orden told WSAW-TV that the FBI told him that they were investigating "credible death threats" against him and his family. DVO also received a "credible death threat" last month, just as he was about to do a townhall meeting with his constituents, who are pretty damned pissed off at him. Naturally, he had to cancel the meeting. Talk about rotten luck.
This month's credible death threat came just as he was receiving a lot of backlash over obnoxious tweets he made about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and fellow Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan, even as people were in shock and mourning over the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker. Another amazing coinkydink!
To his credit, DVO did condemn the death threats made against Pocan and Senator Tammy Baldwin.
But then DVO made a odd comment:
NewsChannel 7 asked Van Orden, who has posted “brassy” comments on his non-congressional social media accounts, about certain tones used when posting on social media.