September 28, 2025

Rep Drunken Van Orden has tweeted more than 1,000 times since Charlie Kirk's death. By far, the majority of his tweets involve doxxing and threatening American citizens who don't like Charlie Kirk and didn't praise him after he died. DVO has gone as far as blaming reporters and threatening funding to an entire city if two council members don't resign.

And now he is threatening federal funding for the Mayo Clinic because of the posts from one person:

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Heartland Signal reports that when one of DVO's constituents called into a show where DVO was a guest, DVO got belligerent and insulting to the caller:

When asked if this funding should be removed because somebody at Mayo Clinic said something that he didn’t agree with, Van Orden got defensive and doubled down on his pledge to remove all federal funding from the Mayo Clinic and falsely claimed that the organization is “inciting violence.”

When the constituent said he hasn’t seen the organization say anything disparaging about the Kirk assassination, Van Orden condescendingly told the caller to “open his aperture” and that “not all speech is protected.”

Van Orden went on to tell the caller to Google his own examples of Mayo Clinic inciting violence, and that he is “not a research assistant buddy. I’m your congressman.”

“So saying that we’re threatening federal funding that I am and I am saying we’re going to remove federal funding from anybody who hires these people who celebrate the assassination of American citizens, because it’s actually against the law. By saying that I’m going to hurt them in the short term, it’s going to help us in the long term,” Van Orden continued.

DVO even went as far as equating criticizing Kirk to terrorism. That is how far gone DVO really is.

If DVO keeps up with this McCarthyism, not only is he going to lose in next year's election, he'll receive the same posthumous honors that Joe McCarthy gets.

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