Exclusive: Madison Cawthorn photos reveal him wearing women's lingerie in public setting

[Jose Garcia]

Source: Politico

Photographs obtained by POLITICO appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting.

Cawthorn, 26, was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on arch-traditional Christian principles and the insistence of the importance of a kind of hypermasculinity. His comments about “the sexual perversion” in Washington made on a podcast, which he later admitted were exaggerated, drew the public disapproval and disavowal of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as well as other Republican leaders including those in his North Carolina congressional caucus.

The revelation of the two photos is the latest in a series of unflattering headlines for the freshman member of Congress in the run-up to the primary in his first re-election bid. The primary in North Carolina is May 17. Cawthorn has seven Republican opponents who see him as vulnerable.

Cawthorn, who was paralyzed from the waist down as a passenger in a car accident in Florida in 2014, in recent months has called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug,” suggested teetotaling Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has a drinking problem, and racked up a collection of traffic transgressions including speeding, driving with expired tags and driving with a revoked license. He has court dates in May and June.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/madison-cawthorn-photos-00027286

[milestogo]

1. Whatever.

[OldBaldy1701E]

28. I know right?

PLEASE MSM, stop giving that rethug air time!

[Matthew28]

2. lol'ed

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Those sex and drug parties

Of republicans are probably true.
Most if them if not all of them are dark triads. The shit they claim Dems are guilty of these republicans ARE doing. They project. That's the giveaway. Also look at how many republicans have been charged with sex crimes,abuse etc.

Those republican sex parties do happen.
Cawthorn in lingerie just proves the case even more.

[MontanaMama]

4. It looks photoshopped to me.

At the end of the day, I don’t care what he wears or how he identifies himself. It’s his hypocrisy that needs calling out…IF these photos are real.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. He seems to have confirmed they are, but he's blaming "the left" instead of a Republican

The primary in North Carolina is May 17. Cawthorn has seven Republican opponents who see him as vulnerable.
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They were provided to POLITICO by a person formerly close to Cawthorn and his campaign. A second person formerly close to Cawthorn and his campaign confirmed the origin of the photos.
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After this story published, Cawthorn tweeted that the photos were taken of him during a game on a cruise before he was elected to Congress. “I guess the left thinks goofy vacation photos during a game on a cruise (taken waaay before I ran for Congress) is going to somehow hurt me? They’re running out of things to throw at me... Share your most embarrassing vacay pics in the replies.”

Some Republicans want to get rid of him, but he decided to pretend that "the left" would be the ones with access to the pictures, and the motive to do it before his primary. Either he's not very bright, or he thinks he has to blame the left for everything, and pretend all Republicans love him.

[LenaBaby61]

31. You might not care .....

But this hypocrite goes after gays, Lesbians and Trans on the regular, and look at what he's done. Those photos aren't photo shopped. He admitted to them on twitter then doubled down saying that marriage is between a man and woman and that there are ONLY two genders. He's still quoting verses from the Bible as well.

Link to tweet

Dems better stop turning the other cheek and start calling the GQP out on their lies and hypocrisy.

This is comment after his pics surfaced. People on twitter were destroying him on his lies and hypocrisy as they should have.

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

36. In my post, I said that I don't care how he dresses...

I also said his hypocrisy needs to be called out. I think we can all agree on that.

[COL Mustard]

54. In the link, he says he was raised on Proverbs and pushups

I guess he meant the bras, not the exercise!

I really don't care what he wears or what his personal life is like (and I bet it's a mess), but this little weasel needs to be an ex-Congressman real soon.

[davsand]

5. Whatever undies blow yer skirt up, Madison. Just don't LIE about it. N/T

[sop]

6. If real, we can start referring to Cawthorn as the one-term congressman from N. Carolina.

[oldsoftie]

15. I hope!! We ALL hope. nt

[Mawspam2]

7. You know who else wore a dress?

Jesus

[woodsprite]

13. I was going to say Rudy Giulianni. nt

[paleotn]

14. I have it on good authority....

that Brian never wore dresses. An occasional toga perhaps, but never dresses and certainly not brassieres.

[niyad]

39. and j. edgar.

[Hassler]

8. Looks like one of those groomers we're being warned about

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Whatever floats his boat

[Roy Rolling]

25. True

Those are my liberal standards. But holding him accountable to his own standards makes him fair game for criticism.

That’s how Republicans slither back under a rock during scandals until it is no longer news. In other words, the GOP playbook depends on that tolerant response from Democrats. I used to respond like that, but no more though. I am not tolerant of the intolerant weasels like Cawthorn.

And one more thing, hiding behind a wheelchair is cheap entertainment. And as can say that, I now use a wheelchair, too. Fuck him, he makes all disabled people look like stereotypical villains from the movies like Mr. Potter from “It’s a Wonderful Life”.

On edit: thanks for letting me rant, I needed it.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Any white powder on his nose and upper lip?

Any white powder on his nose and upper lip?

[truthisfreedom]

12. Hmm. No wonder they plied him with sex and cocaine.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. He's such an easy mark you have to ask why they would need to...

[SpankMe]

17. By itself, this shouldn't be an issue

He's right that few of us DON'T have embarrassing vacation and party pictures.

BUT...dressing that way - even as a joke, or possibly at the urging of some of those girls with him in the photos - runs counter to the descriptions of himself as subscribing to Judeo-Christian values and having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and taking on the role of a warrior to "...reclaim and restore masculinity in a society that is ever more dismissive of what it means to be a man."

The most manly men I know defend LGBTQ rights and wouldn't demean others by dressing as a woman as if to mock gender fluidity.

Fuck the pretty boy. Let him twist in the wind.

[pnwmom]

19. Lots of us DON'T have embarrassing vacation and party pictures

unless you count bad hair or weight gain.

And I know how the R's would react if a Democrat looked like Cawthorne did, especially after his recent remarks about drugs and orgies.

[LenaBaby61]

34. tRaitor Green ....

Goes after Dems calling them a moral and pedophiles. Yet, look at her personal track record of being a serial adulterer. Look at the guy she goes around the country with who was in the courtroom with her, supporting her yesterday: Matt Gaetz, and we know what he's been accused of where under-aged girls is concerned.

[hay rick]

18. Is it just me or...

is it almost impossible to keep up with the level of hypocrisy and dysfunction of these Republicans?

[yardwork]

26. Every accusation is a confession with Republicans.

[NullTuples]

50. Getting away with hypocrisy is a show of power to their base

Disregarding social rules, traditions, laws and so on is seen by their base as proof that a Republican is so powerful they don't have to follow the rules. It's the fantasy of their voters & supporters. So maybe if they're loyal, they won't have to be constrained by anyone else, either.

Note: This only works if there are no consequences for Republican leaders. And so far there have been extremely few consequences.

[Captain Zero]

52. I always cross dress and do fetish play when I go on a cruise

I mean, who doesn't ?

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

20. It bears mentioning, that Maddie's mother paid a handyman...

...to embed an entire bible above each light switch in their home...I have counted 17 light switches in my home.

This cross dressing thing goes a long way in explaining why his marriage only lasted 9 months...

[KS Toronado]

23. Welcome to DU!

Is that cross dressing thing the first step towards a sex change?

[Ziggysmom]

30. NO! I have male friends who "Dress".

Many more men than you realize enjoy dressing up in women's clothing. This does not mean they are gay. Cross dressing men can be straight, gay or non-binary just like everyone else. Some do it for fun, some relate an erotic sensation.

We should not condemn Caw for the photos, but for his hypocrisy. There are a ton of reasons why I despise Madison, but partying and dressing on a cruise are the least objectionable things he has done!

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

32. Thank you

[Random Boomer]

37. No, it's not

Some straight, CIS-gendered men enjoy wearing women's clothes. Some gay, CIS-gendered men enjoy wearing women's clothes. And some transgendered women (born male) may dress in women's clothes as part of their transition, but they don't tend to fetishize women's clothing.

[LudwigPastorius]

22. I don't care about the lingerie, but...

what kind of uber-Aryan he-man drinks WHITE WINE!!?

[LittleGirl]

24. Yet, Al Franken

Was removed from the Senate with a silly photo but dressed appropriately. Whatever.

[whistler162]

27. Politico must be getting desperate

[LenaBaby61]

33. Desperate how?

I'll admit, I'm not the biggest Politico fan, but this hypocrite is fair game, especially since he stays going after Lesbians, Trans and gay people with Bible verses on the regular.

If a Dem did this, the GQP would be all over it DAILY, just like they did Al Franken.

He's doubling down on his hypocrisy after this photo came out.

Link to tweet

[Emile]

29. Cocaine sex orgies make you do some crazy shit.

[True Blue American]

35. I have to confess I do not know any man who wears

Dresses, except Scotsmen, a few English, including Prince Charles.

[Random Boomer]

38. Because they're going to tell you?

You may indeed know a man, or several men, who cross-dress, but you're just not aware of it because those men aren't going to tell you what they're doing in the privacy of their own home or in quiet public outings to areas you don't visit.

That "I don't know any man who wears dresses" sounds just like the straight people who used to say "I don't know any homosexuals." Sure they did, but all those people were in the closet.

[True Blue American]

40. That may be why I do not know any!:)

BTW, my post was attempted humor, not to be taken seriously!

[Random Boomer]

41. It know you meant well

Yes, I can see the joke you meant, and that part was humorous enough, but.... But as a gay person who lived through the era when people all around me were saying "I don't know any gay people", the framing of your joke was almost painful.

Gay people, transgendered people, cross-dressers, we have all at one time been erased by the naively oblivious mainstream culture that looks right past us and denies we even exist.

[True Blue American]

44. That is not what I posted.

I said,” I did not know any men who wore women's clothes. I know many men who are gay.

[Random Boomer]

47. It's the same social dynamic at work

Of course you know gay people, and these days you are actually aware that they are gay. A few decades back, you would not have known.

That's where cross-dressing men (mostly men, women are allowed more freedom to cross-dress) are still stuck, in era when people around them say -- with complete innocence -- I don't know any cross-dressers.

[True Blue American]

53. To be honest I do not

Think about what people do. I base my friendships on actions, not sexual orientations. None of my business.

[Joinfortmill]

46. 👍

[Paladin]

42. A piece-of-shit fascist, wheelchair-bound and wearing lingerie...

...is still a piece-of-shit fascist.

Class dismissed.

[LiberatedUSA]

43. Did he tan his testicles first before putting on the lingerie? N/t

[Joinfortmill]

45. Why am I not surprised.

[VarryOn]

48. Freak! Nt

[keithbvadu2]

49. Another campaign ad coming from Thom Tillis about Cawthorn?

Another campaign ad coming from Thom Tillis about Cawthorn?

The video knocks Cawthorn as an “attention-seeking embarrassment” to the Republican Party.

https://democraticunderground.com/100216621707

[Torchlight]

51. Not my thing, but if he's into it, he should own it and be proud of it!

I'd suggest a different color to help his pretty eyes stand out more, but maybe that particular outfit holds a sentimental value for him.