Madison Cawthorn Lied About Crash That Partially Paralyzed Him, Pal Says

[G_j]

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_603c5e83c5b6d7794ae01026?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

The right-wing star claimed his friend left him to die in a “fiery tomb.” The friend told The Washington Post he pulled Cawthorn from the wreck.

By Mary Papenfuss
03/01/2021 08:38 AM ET

A former close friend of right-wing Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) told The Washington Post the lawmaker lied about a car wreck that partially paralyzed him.

Cawthorn’s account of the 2014 wreck — which he presented publicly in the chapel of his Christian college in Virginia three years later — was that a close friend had crashed the car in which he was a passenger, leaving him to die “in a fiery tomb,” the Post reported over the weekend.

But the friend, Bradley Ledford, told the newspaper in his first public comments about the crash that he pulled Cawthorn from the wreckage.

“It hurt very badly that he would say something as false as that,” Ledford told the paper. “That is not at all what happened. I pulled him out of the car the second that I was able to get out of the car.”

..more..

[Archae]

1. Cawthorn is the perfect Trumpbot.

Including just dumping an old friend, to lie about his past.

[Blue Owl]

2. Just step on whoever you need to further your political career, Cawthorn

That's the Republican way...

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. In his case it would be "roll over", but yeah, you got the gist.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[RockRaven]

5. He's repeatedly told two other huge lies about his accident/disability.

He claims the accident disrupted his enrollment in/attendance of the US Naval Academy. In reality, his application was rejected, THEN he was in the accident. Attending the Naval Academy was never possible for him because he did not get in, period.

He claimed he was training for the Paralympics, specifically the marathon. He never once interacted with US Paralympics, registered, had his classification confirmed, or competed in a sanctioned event. If someone told you they were training for the Olympic marathon but they had never interacted with USATF or run in an official event, you would laugh in their fucking face.

He is, unsurprisingly, a Donald Trump-level brazen obvious liar. Easily disprovable lies.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Cawthorn knows how to NAZI Big Lie

His trip to Berchtesgaden, vacation home of the "Fuehrer,” for instance.



https://www.timesofisrael.com/madison-cawthorns-visit-to-hitlers-vacation-home-alarms-his-nc-districts-jews/

[oldsoftie]

8. At least he does call hitler "supreme evil"

[Kid Berwyn]

11. He did. But he sure smiles a lot from the same place Hitler enjoyed.

Knows how to dog whistle for Blondie, too. Regarding then-Senate Raphael Warnock:

“If we cede control of our Senate and really all of Washington, D.C. to the Democrats, it’s not going to represent the values of my home, North Carolina, and certainly not the values of Georgia, and the values of most of the people in the United States of America,” Cawthorn said, adding: “You see this Warnock fella who’s coming down here and disguising himself as some moderate pastor from the South who doesn’t believe in these radical ideas, but if you look at him really, what he actually believes, he is a radical’s radical. He wants to defund our police. He says he’s a pastor, yet he’s all about abortion. This is somebody who does not represent what real Americans believe.”

Source: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/12/10229007/madison-cawthorn-raphael-warnock-coded-racism

[TheRickles]

9. At least he admitted that Hitler was evil....

[Kid Berwyn]

13. True. And does he know history. Take "SPQR," it's Roman.

From his candidate days:

NC House candidate is under fire for posts some call sympathetic to white nationalists

BY JIM MORRILL
Charlotte Observer, AUGUST 11, 2020

Excerpt...

But critics such as Davis say other symbols appear to suggest Cawthorn’s support for white nationalism.

They include the name of his real estate company, SPQR Holdings. SPQR, an abbreviation of a Latin phrase meaning the Senate and the Roman People, a phrase from the Roman Republic, is often used by white nationalists. His Twitter feed shows he follows 88 people. The number “88” is considered code for Heil Hitler, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

In a recent statement, Cawthorn said, “SPQR is a term for Rome.”

“We can’t let extremists on any side hijack or rewrite history because those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it . . . No one needs to study this history more closely than today’s far left politicians who favor authoritarian, centralized and top-down policies.”

A photo on his web site shows Cawthorn with a military-style rifle and pistol in a holster emblazoned with a Spartan-style helmet, a symbol often used by Oath Keepers, which the ADL describes as “an anti-government right-wing fringe organization.” And Cawthorn also has appeared with the so-called Betsy Ross flag, an early American banner also associated with white nationalism.

Continues...

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/rnc-2020/article244872697.html#storylink=cpy

Seems conservative in the eugenics for the Untermenschen kind of way.

[Politicub]

7. His career is going to be short. He's too stupid to sustain his con.

When you look beneath the surface, everything about him is based on a lie. And he's so young that lies are the only things that he has propping him up.

[oldsoftie]

10. Whoever runs against him needs to continually point out those lies too. nt

[moose65]

15. I hope that is true...

MadCaw is stupid, but look what happened to Trump!

I keep thinking that MadCaw has to have some secret backer who is funding him and telling him what to say. He is too young and inexperienced to have made it on his own. As far as I know, he's never really had a job, and he lives off the insurance payout from the accident.

It also seems to me that I read somewhere that Cawthorn isn't interested in passing laws to help the disabled. He likes to spread the story that HE has overcome his accident, so everyone should be able to, using those bootstraps.

[badboy67]

12. If his lips are moving ...

[Kid Berwyn]

14. Then there's the time Cawthorn claimed he got into the US Naval Academy...

The Ignominious Deceits of Congressman Cawthorn

Representative Madison Cawthorn has misled the public about training for the Paralympics, just as he misrepresented his education and business history.

By Sara Luterman
The Nation, Jan. 22, 2021

Before January 6, 25-year-old Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was known for being the youngest member of Congress, an ardent Trump supporter, and one of the few wheelchair users in elected office. Now he is in the headlines for giving a speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally prior to the insurrection at the Capitol that left five people dead. Throughout his short but meteoric political career, Cawthorn has used his disability to tell a story of overcoming: Despite great adversity, he claims to have achieved excellence through grit and physical strength. Many of his campaign ads featured images of Cawthorn intubated and hospitalized alongside videos of him lifting weights and hurtling forward in a racing wheelchair. But his claims of sporting success—like his accounts of education and business acumen—have often been misleading.

Cawthorn became disabled after a 2014 car crash left him paralyzed from the waist down. By Cawthorn’s own telling, he was a successful business owner headed to the Naval Academy before his injury tragically reordered his life. As it turns out, neither claim is true. The Asheville Watchdog reported that Cawthorn had already been rejected from the Naval Academy before his accident. And Cawthorn’s real-estate investment firm, SPQR Holdings LLC, which he only formed in August 2019, reported no income on its tax documents, and Cawthorn was the sole employee.

Continues...

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/madison-cawthorn-paralympics/

PS: Sorry to glom on your thread, G_j. This GOP star liar deserves the treatment.

[G_j]

16. no, thank you!

Unfortunately , I live in his district.
post away! There is a recent scathingly WP piece also.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/27/making-madison-cawthorn-how-falsehoods-helped-propel-career-new-pro-trump-star-far-right/?arc404=true

[demmiblue]

17. I swear I read about a family member of Cawthorn's stating the same recollection...

of the circumstances surrounding the wreck in an article months ago. His uncle?

[moondust]

18. Just covered on CNN.

The lies about the accident, the Naval Academy, and sexual advances.

Is unabashed lying as sanctioned by the Orange Jackass the future?

[Judi Lynn]

20. Thank you, G j. Have wondered about his version for a long time. Great article. ⭐️