{"id":3047,"date":"2023-05-25T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2023-05-25T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T18:01:08","slug":"wisconsin-congressman-derrick-van-orden-says-hes-proud-of-russian-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden Says He\u2019s Proud of Russian Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/western-wisconsin-congressman-says-hes-proud-of-russian-ban\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/western-wisconsin-congressman-says-hes-proud-of-russian-ban\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/derrick-van-orden.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Fentanyl Overdose Link derrick van orden\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Biden&#039;s Student Loan Cancellation\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Congressman Derrick Van Orden says he may get a T-shirt made to celebrate his being banned from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Van Orden, the Republican congressman from western Wisconsin, is among 500 Americans on the latest list of people banned from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s great that Vladimir Putin and his gang of thugs have identified the fact that I don\u2019t believe this naked, international aggression should go unchecked,\u201d Van Orden told The Center Square on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Van Orden has been a vocal opponent of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I said about Putin is correct. That he has cable television,\u201d Van Orden explained. \u201cOne of the reasons that he invaded Ukraine is that he saw President Biden abandon thousands of American citizens and our allies to terrorists in Afghanistan. I believe that emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia released a new list last Friday of 500 Americans who have been banned from the country for life.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Van Orden, the list includes former President Obama, former U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman, several U.S. senators, and entertainers Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Seth Meyers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is interesting that President Obama and I wound up on the same list,\u201d Van Orden explained. \u201cWe didn\u2019t really agree with a lot of stuff, politically. But it\u2019s nice to see that this really, truly is a bipartisan issue. That Russia must be stopped from what they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that \u201cIt is high time for Washington to learn that not a single hostile attack against Russia will go without a strong reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van Orden said he\u2019s not worried about the ban, because he wasn\u2019t planning on going to Russia anytime soon anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/western-wisconsin-congressman-says-hes-proud-of-russian-ban\/ Congressman Derrick Van Orden says he may get a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}