Madison Cawthorn Is Trying to Commit Every Possible Scandal The Republican congressman’s inspiring quest to shoot the moon. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...e-driving-lying-cocaine-orgies-gun-knife.html No lawmaker in recent memory has inspired such fervent, bipartisan speculation as Madison Cawthorn. The young, right-wing first-term member of Congress has generated so many horrible news stories, ranging from the personal to the ideological, that observers have grown obsessed with locating the unifying thread that explains it all. Is he a secret Nazi? Some kind of sex weirdo? A compulsive liar? These are all plausible theories. But I am increasingly drawn to a novel explanation of Cawthorn’s frenetic generation of terrible news stories: He has made a list of every major political scandal and is attempting to commit all of them. The newest revelation, via the conservative Washington Examiner, is that Cawthorn may have violated federal insider-trading laws. On December 29, Cawthorn posted a photo on social media with the main investor in Let’s Go Brandon coin, a cryptocurrency, writing, “LGB legends. … Tomorrow we go to the moon!” The next day, the coin announced a deal that made its value soar 75 percent. Its value has since dropped to 0, but Cawthorn’s promotion may indicate he participated in a pump-and-dump scheme. A financial-engineering crime would round out the impressively broad portfolio of scandals Cawthorn has amassed in a short period of time. Cawthorn first attracted attention during his campaign for falsifying key elements of his biography. He claimed the automobile accident that left him paralyzed had robbed him of his dream of attending the Naval Academy, which in fact had already rejected his application prior to the accident. He also claimed to have been accepted to Princeton and an online program at Harvard before later admitting neither of those things happened. In one speech, he told an audience that after his fateful car accident, his companion abandoned him, when in fact he pulled him from the wreckage, and that doctors pronounced him dead, which they did not. Also during his campaign, 150 former students at Patrick Henry College, the conservative Christian university Cawthorn attended for one semester before dropping out with horrendous grades, signed a letter stating his brief time on campus “was marked by gross misconduct towards our female peers, public misrepresentation of his past, disorderly conduct that was against the school’s student honor code.” (The above list can be found in this now sadly outdated 2021 compendium of Cawthorn misdeeds.) All this happened before he even won his only race, after which point the pace of Cawthorn scandals somehow accelerated. Cawthorn played a side role in the events of January 6, during which there’s a chance he may have committed some light insurrection. Last summer, Cawthorn was caught bringing a gun through airport security. A couple of months later, he was caught bringing a hunting knife into a school-board meeting and then admitted to Olivia Nuzzi that he had (illegally) brought the same weapon into Congress. In March, Cawthorn was stopped while driving with a revoked license (for the second time). A few weeks later, he alleged that multiple members of Congress had invited him to cocaine orgies, a claim that, because it implicated fellow Republicans, finally seemed to exhaust the patience of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Last Friday, Politico published photos of Cawthorn wearing women’s lingerie in public. This is obviously not a crime, but it’s also somewhat inconsistent with his reactionary public posture on matters of gender, which has included statements like “I think that we have bred a generation of soft men and that generation has created a lot of problems in our society and our culture” and “There’s only one God and two genders.” Oh, and today Cawthorn was caught bringing a loaded gun through airport security. Yes, again. Taken as a whole, the list runs from the self-interested to the self-destructive, from culturally Neanderthal to libertine, and from ideological to pure frat boy. Possibly, Cawthorn decided that, having started his career in a deep hole of scandal, his best hope for success lay in somehow shooting the moon. Or perhaps he is in the middle of someBrewster’s Millions–style gonzo scandal jag that stands to win him a huge fortune if he can round out the portfolio with, say, a dead stripper in his car and a charge of hunting an endangered species. Whatever the explanation, bear in mind: Cawthorn has accomplished all this at the age of a mere 26 years old. He hasdecadesof misconduct ahead of him.
Let's see what is the latest is with Madison Cawthorn. Since every day brings a new scandal. If you had a bet in Vegas that Madison is a closet homosexual despite bashing gays regularly... your bet may be paying off. Article has many photos, video, and the ethics complaint. 'I would like to see a naked body beneath my hands.' GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn is caught on video with male scheduler's hand on his crotch as new ethics complaint claims the congressman gave him thousands of dollars in loans and gifts, Footage obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com shows Rep. Madison Cawthorn, 26, in a car with his close aide and staffer Stephen Smith, 23 Cawthorn sits in the driver's seat and says, 'I feel the passion and desire and would like to see a naked body beneath my hands' The camera then pans back to Smith who says, 'Me too' and then films himself reaching his hand over and into Cawthorn's crotch The video is one of several exhibits filed in support of the ethics complaint drafted by political group Fire Madison Cawthorn The complaint calls for an investigation into a slew of behavior that, the group alleges, has put Cawthorn firmly on the wrong side of a host of House Rules Among the many allegations is the claim that Cawthorn provided thousands of dollars in loans and gifts to Smith https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ght-video-male-staff-members-hand-crotch.html New video of scandal-ridden GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn having his crotch felt by a close male friend and staff member is at the center of a complaint calling for an investigation into him and filed with the Office of Congressional Ethics today, DailyMail.com can reveal. The extraordinary footage, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com and seen here for the first time today, shows Cawthorn, 26, in a car with his close aide and his scheduler Stephen Smith, 23. Cawthorn sits in the driver's seat apparently filmed by Smith as he adopts an exaggerated accent and says, 'I feel the passion and desire and would like to see a naked body beneath my hands.' The camera then pans back to Smith who says, 'Me too' as Cawthorn can be heard laughing. Smith then films himself reaching his hand over and into Cawthorn's crotch. The video is one of several exhibits filed in support of the ethics complaint drafted by political group Fire Madison Cawthorn. Cawthorn appeared to allude to the scandal on Thursday in a tweet which said: 'Many of my colleagues would be nowhere near politics if they had grown up with a cell phone in their hands.' The complaint calls for an investigation into a slew of behaviors that, the group alleges, has put Cawthorn firmly on the wrong side of a host of House Rules. Among the many allegations is the claim that representative for North Carolina's 11th district provided thousands of dollars in loans and gifts to Smith, a staff member, with whom, the complaint states, he is engaged in an improper relationship characterized by steamy postings on social media and so close that the staffer joined Cawthorn on his honeymoon to Dubai in April 2021. According to the filing Cawthorn has provided free housing, travel and loans to Smith, none of which have been declared or repaid. The complaint also requests an investigation into the nature of Cawthorn's relationship with Smith stating that the junior member of staff lives with Cawthorn. A campaign payment to Smith submitted in Cawthorn's FEC filing and attached to the complaint gives Cawthorn's Hendersonville North Carolina house as Smith's home address and DailyMail.com has separately verified that Smith is indeed registered as living there. In addition to this living arrangement the filing claims that, 'various social media postings by them indicate a personal relationship between them, separate and apart from the professional relationship of employer and employee.' In fact, according to the ethics complaint, Smith's relationship with Cawthorn is so close that the younger man joined Cawthorn on his honeymoon to Dubai in April 2021. Approached for comment Cawthorn’s spokesman Luke Ball said he could not give any response until he had seen the video. He said Smith and Cawthorn are cousins. A picture included in the exhibits filed in support of the call for an ethics investigation appears to show Cawthorn and Smith, poolside. Cawthorn lounges covered with only a towel, his arm draped over Smith who rests his head on his boss's shoulder and places his hand on Cawthorn's hip. Another picture shows the men enjoying a 'snow day' together with Smith sitting next to Cawthorn on an ATV, his arm placed around Cawthorn's shoulder. Cawthorn, who is confined to a wheelchair following a 2014 car accident, married Cristina Bayardelle, 27, in April 2021, just weeks after he had been accused of sexual harassment by a number of former students at Patrick Henry College, the northern Virginia college he attended in 2016 for just one semester. At the time Cawthorn described marrying the 27-year-old anesthesiologist assistant and CrossFit athlete as, 'the greatest honor, privilege and adventure of my life.' The pair were married in a private ceremony in front of a large wooden cross, garlanded with flowers. Cawthorn stood with the aid of a walker and exoskeleton to make his vows and kiss his bride. Bayardelle, originally from Florida, claimed she knew 'he was the one' after just four months of dating. But eight months later, in December 2021, the couple announced they were divorcing with Cawthorn placing the blame for the split on his elevation to political office. 'When my wife Cristina and I were engaged I was not a member of Congress. I felt called to serve and we both agreed that I should run,' he said in a press statement released at the time. He claimed they had sought counseling to deal with the 'enormity' of the change his election brought to his life but that ultimately, they had agreed to split when they realized that 'balance was not attainable,' and 'that we had irreconcilable differences between us.' Records reviewed by DailyMail.com show that Smith was living at Cawthorn's Hendersonville, North Carolina, home throughout the representative's brief marriage. A Venmo payment history between Smith and Cawthorn, attached to the ethics filing and dating from June 2018 is littered with suggestive messages in the form of notes attached to the payments. One payment made by Cawthorn to Smith and dated June 17, 2018, reads, 'Getting naked for me in Sweden.' Another made by the representative to his staff member four days later reads, 'The stuff we did in Amsterdam.' The following day on June 21 Cawthorn made a payment to Smith for, 'The quickie at the airport.' Four days later Smith makes a payment to Cawthorn 'For loving me daily and nightly.' One note on a payment made by Smith to Cawthorn on December 13, 2018, reads simply, 'Nudes.' It is not clear if the two twenty-somethings added those tags as a joke. Cawthorn, who represents a wide swath of western North Carolina in Congress, is the youngest member of Congress in more than half a century. He has become an increasingly embattled figure in recent weeks during which there has been what Fire Madison Cawthorn co-founder David Wheeler calls a 'deluge' of scandal. Leaked pictures emerged in which he was seen, possibly intoxicated, wearing women's lingerie at a party. Two recent speeding violations – one for 'extreme speeding' another for driving on a revoked license – have brought his tally of citations to more than a dozen with court dates looming. On Tuesday he was stopped at Charlotte's Douglas International Airport attempting to take a loaded Staccato C2 handgun through TSA in his carry-on. Last year he was stopped trying to board a flight at Asheville Airport with a Glock 9mm handgun that was not only loaded but had a round chambered and ready to fire. On Wednesday North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis called for him to be investigated for insider trading over his relationship with meme cryptocurrency Let's Go Brandon. Last December Cawthorn posted an Instagram picture of himself with LGB leader James Koutolas and the caption, 'LGB legends…Tomorrow we go to the moon!' The following day NASCAR driver Brandon Brown announced that the cryptocurrency would be his primary sponsor for the 2022 season and its value spiked by 75 percent. Tillis has asserted that this suggests that Cawthorn who owned the cryptocurrency was aware of the development in advance and called for an investigation. It is all just part of what Tillis, 61, has called Cawthorn's, 'consistent pattern of juvenile behavior, outlandish statements and untruthfulness.' This apparent 'untruthfulness' reached a new level when he told a right-wing YouTube channel host that unnamed Republicans in Washington, 'in their 60s and 70s' had invited him to 'orgies' and that he had witnessed them snorting cocaine. A red-faced Cawthorn was forced to admit that this was an 'exaggeration' after a 30-minute tongue-lashing from the Republican minority leader, Kevin McCarthy. For his part McCarthy called the stories, 'untrue' and said that the once-rising star had lost his trust and needed to 'turn his life around.' (Much more at above url)
Should we list all the Dems caught with their hands in the cookie jar who had to resign or step down so that Cawthorn can shut the fuck up and leave already...
Let's see the latest with Madison Cawthorn. Oh, this thing just keeps sliding downhill. Video Shows Madison Cawthorn Naked on Top a Man https://gayety.co/madison-cawthorn-naked-in-gay-video Cawthorn responds to leaked video showing him simulating sex act https://www.wral.com/cawthorn-responds-to-leaked-video-showing-him-simulating-sex-act/20265688/