Madison Cawthorn

"I've really never seen the swamp launch such a coordinated attack against any individual politics except for [former President] Donald Trump," Cawthorn ...

In a tweet posted Wednesday evening, Cawthorn again acknowledged the video, saying he "was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny." The youngest person ever elected to Congress, Cawthorn pointed out he is one of the first politicians to have access to a cell phone growing up. "I've really never seen the swamp launch such a coordinated attack against any individual politics except for [former President] Donald Trump," Cawthorn said in the video, against the backdrop of an American flag.

A political group whose primary focus is unseating U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn released a graphic video showing him naked and simulating a sex act.

The media thinks that playing a goofy game on a cruise ship with my friends and family means that I can't serve in Congress. That is garbage.” In the video Cawthorn released Wednesday, he took issue with “hit piece mailers” from opponents that he described as factually incorrect. “... I carry a weapon almost all the time. “Have you ever taken a dumb photo on vacation? He faces a crowded field of GOP challengers in the May 17 primary. “A new hit against me just dropped,” Cawthorn said in a statement. “Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. “Ask yourself this,” Cawthorn said. “I love and defend the Second Amendment as a man in a wheelchair who faces death threats,” he said. He also took accountability for recent brushes with law enforcement officials. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. Obviously, though, I made a mistake.

Particularly, Mr Cawthorn criticised Politico, which published photos of him wearing lingerie during what the congressman described as a scavenger hunt game on ...

Similarly, Mr Cawthorn hit out against a story published in The Daily Mail showing Mr Cawthorn’s staffer Stephen L Smith putting his hand on the congressman’s crotch. “This article is pushing some kind of ludicrous narrative that I’m some sort of drag queen on the side, aside from being a congressman,” he said. “Now, this video is just stupid locker room talk between two cousins, that grew up like brothers taken long before I served in Congress,” he said.

North Carolina congressman Madison Cawthorn blamed a drip campaign by Republicans for his scandals. He confirmed a leaked nude video of him in bed is real.

“Cawthorn supporters continue to move to Michelle V. Woodhouse fearing what will be revealed May 18.” He supported Michele Woodhouse as his replacement, before state lawmakers redrew districts and he returned to run in the 11th district. ”I really don’t even like dignifying his behavior with answers, really give him too much attention and honestly, it’s probably what he does a lot of this for, to be honest, is to get the attention.” Cawthorn recently posted on Twitter that most members of Congress could not remain in office if they had grown up with cellphones like he did. “I’m NOT backing down,” Cawthorn said on Twitter. “I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. “A new hit against me just dropped,” Cawthorn tweeted in response.

The GOP congressman said the NSFW clip of unknown provenance simply showed him "being crass with a friend."

A male voice can also be heard laughing and saying, “stick it in his face.” A male voice can be heard saying, “Oh ma yah yah oh” repeatedly. “A new hit against me just dropped,” the GOP lawmaker tweeted on Wednesday. “Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny.

Video published by American Muckrakers PAC showed Rep. Madison Cawthorn naked and thrusting his pelvis at another man's head, which Cawthorn claims was a ...

A picture included in the exhibits filed in support of the call for an ethics investigation appears to show Cawthorn and Smith, poolside. 'Obviously, though, I made a mistake,' Cawthorn continued. He said Smith and Cawthorn are cousins. It's the Quest game show, the adults-only scavenger hunt that ranks as a cruise can't-miss,' CruiseCritic.com says of the game. That's my bad, and I have to own that one.' A second former confidante of Cawthorn verified the photos. They're running out of things to throw at me...' he wrote on Twitter. Cawthorn sought to address the controversies he is embroiled in in a seven-minute video posted to Instagram on Wednesday It shows Cawthorn, 26, screaming and chanting as he started thrusting against an unknown man's face. In the video 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' Cawthorn wrote in a tweet after the video was published that he was 'being crass with a friend, trying to be funny' - Cawthorn has now said that the video - which has gone viral on Twitter - was a 'joke' from when he was 'being crass with a friend, trying to be funny'

American politician Madison Cawthorn has responded after an opposition group released a suggestive video of the congressman.

Don’t lose hope, don’t listen to the fake news,” he wrote alongside the seven-minute-long clip. Then, he went on to slam a story that claimed to have “exclusive photos,” saying: “This is a ludicrous narrative that I am some kind of drag queen on the side.” He went on to call it a “coordinated attack” before saying he wants to “fight back” and eradicate some of their “lies”.

The video, which was released by a PAC against Rep. Madison Cawthorn, appears to show him naked and thrusting against another person while laughing.

The roughly 30-second-long clip appears to show a naked Cawthorn thrusting his pelvis against someone while the person laughs. We will." In a statement on the FireMadison website, Muckrakers PAC said the video was "passed to us by a former supporter" of Cawthorn who wanted to remain anonymous. "We were acting foolish, and joking. "I'm NOT backing down. Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina appeared to confirm the authenticity of a leaked nude video and slammed it as part of a "drip drip" campaign to destroy his career.

Overpaying a staff member hardly seems like Rep. Madison Cawthorn's biggest scandal these days, but a Daily Beast investigation into Cawthorn's compensation for ...

Libowitz argued that because the rules are pegged to the full calendar year, the previous campaign payments would be retroactively included when Harp tripped the senior staff scale. And because he appears to have qualified as senior staff at the last minute, Harp’s 2021 salary would also require him to file a disclosure report this year accounting for his 2021 finances. Not that this particularly helps him: Cawthorn’s campaign paid Harp’s LLC over $22,865 in the final quarter of 2021.” “After looking over Cawthorn’s filings, it appears they were trying to keep Harp just under the senior staff level to pay him well above what he’s allowed to make from the campaign, but may not have been able to successfully pull off the scheme,” Libowitz said. For one, it confirms that staff believed Harp wasn’t subject to the outside income limitations. That company has also received tens of thousands of dollars from a PAC belonging to Harp’s mom. Subscribe to the Pay Dirt newsletter here for exclusive reporting every Thursday. And that’s where they slipped up, paying Harp at a senior rate in the last quarter of 2021. “Mr. Harp’s congressional salary is below the House’s threshold for the outside limitations to be applied,” Ball said. The office’s congressional expense reports show that Harp made about $1,500 less than the annual threshold that would qualify him as senior staff. House ethics rules stipulate that senior congressional staff can only earn $29,595 in outside income each year. Congressional pay data shows that North Carolina Republican paid his chief of staff, Blake Harp, $131,278 in 2021.

North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn acknowledged the video was real, saying he was "being crass" with a friend and trying to be funny.

North Carolina congressman Madison Cawthorn has said he was “trying to be funny” in a leaked video which appears to show him naked in bed with another man.

The media thinks that playing a goofy game on a cruise ship with my friends and family means that I can’t serve in Congress. That is garbage. They always go further,” Cawthorn said on the Charlie Kirk Show in 2020. My mother was literally in that crowd, and if you think I’d do something inappropriate in front of my mom, you clearly don’t know what a southern mom is like.” Cawthorn has twice been accused of sexual misconduct and harassment. He said the pictures of him wearing lingerie were taken before he was in Congress, adding: “Ask yourself this, have you ever taken a dumb photo on vacation? In recent weeks, Politico has released images which appear to show Cawthorn wearing lingerie in what looks to be a party setting.

Yet another video that apparently depicts embattled Western North Carolina Republican congressman Madison Cawthorn in a compromising situation has sur...

“Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. We do know Rep. Cawthorn shouldn't be in Congress regardless of when this video was taken. This video was passed to us by a former supporter and big donor of Rep. Cawthorn that wishes to remain anonymous. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. “A new hit against me just dropped.” Cawthorn wrote. The other person is only seen for a moment, and has not yet been identified.

While Cawthorn has certainly become a lightning rod for controversy, he is far from the only lawmaker to come under scrutiny for questionable acts and ...

Instead of focusing on the issues that a candidate may stand for, it is increasingly about finding the worst thing he or she has done and sharing that to the masses. Yet, this is the age we live in, and I don't know if there is an answer to curb this." Social media is so instantaneous that it can make it challenging for us to maintain our freedom when disinformation can spread so quickly." "We should be concerned that anyone can so easily manipulate the message," warned Haynes. "Once a story is out there, it is impossible to contain. They live and die by the social media sword." On Wednesday, an opposition group that is now actively campaigning against freshman Congressman Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina released a video that showed the Republican lawmaker naked in bed and thrusting his groin at another person's head.