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Painted with the word traitor ( traitor) appeared at the home of one of the lawyers of the impeachment of the former president Donald Trump , according to the police of the Philadelphia suburb in which the house is located.
Someone vandalized Mike van der Veen’s home in suburban Philly – spray painted “TRAITOR” on his driveway.
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February 13, 2021
The events occurred around eight o’clock on friday at the residence of attorney Michael van der Veen in West Whiteland Township, Pennsylvania. The address is about 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia, reported the police and echoed abc News .
No arrests have been made , Detective Scott Pezick of the West Whiteland Township Police Department told the aforementioned media. According to this same source, the owner has hired private security to protect the residence and the presence of the police has been reinforced in the neighborhood of van der Veen.
The graffiti was the only act of vandalism that the police found in the lawyer’s house.
Van der Veen spent the week in Washington DC defending Trump in the second Senate impeachment , of which the former president was arrested.
“They attacked my house. I’d rather not go into that ”, said Van der Veen visibly upset. “My whole family, my business, my law firm are under siege right now,” he said.