Madison Cawthorn

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.

An opposition group that is actively campaigning against Rep. Madison Cawthorn has released a video clip appearing to show the North Carolina Republican ...

"He's got to turn himself around," McCarthy told reporters at the time. that people in Washington have invited him to participate in orgies and used cocaine in front of him. through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Charlotte airport. with a string of antics. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) said he was just "acting foolish, and joking" with "a friend" in response to a video he characterized as the latest hit piece ...

I told you there would be a drip drip campaign," he said in a tweet. A little more than a month ago, Cawthorn drew headlines for claiming that colleagues in Congress were doing cocaine and inviting him to orgies. Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. Cawthorn has also faced scrutiny for his use of taxpayer money at a luxury resort and questions about whether he violated insider trading laws. The congressman is no stranger to making provocative statements himself. 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'

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.

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.

Cawthorn in a tweet called the video "blackmail" and said it showed him "being crass with a friend" years ago.

Cawthorn also lashed out Politico last month after the outlet published photos of him posing in lingerie at a party. It marked the second time Cawthorn was caught bringing a gun to an airport. But Cawthorn's distractions have spurred criticism from within his own party — especially after he claimed in a March podcast interview to have knowledge of lawmakers doing drugs and inviting him to orgies. The video, details of which have not been independently verified by CNBC, was released less than two weeks before the Republican primary election in Cawthorn's district. "I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. "I'm NOT backing down," Cawthorn's tweet said.

The North Carolina representative responded to a lewd video posted by an opposition group that appears to show Cawthorn naked and thrusting near another ...

In March, he said he had been invited to an “orgy” by fellow representatives, a claim that was widely disputed by his colleagues. “A new hit against me just dropped,” Cawthorn tweeted in response, seeming to confirm that the video does indeed show him. Wednesday night, a video of Madison Cawthorn began circulating on social media that appeared to show the North Carolina representative naked and making a thrusting motion in a man’s face.

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.