Madison Cawthorne is seen with male staff member's hand on his crotch

[Jose Garcia]

Source: Daily Mail

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

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10764209/GOP-Rep-Madison-Cawthorn-caught-video-male-staff-members-hand-crotch.html

[canetoad]

1. I'm not sure this rises

To the level of Important news of national interest only.

[RandySF]

7. Not even the thousand of dollars Cawthorn gave him in prohibited personal loans?

[LenaBaby61]

39. It resonates with folks who have to look at his tweets on twitter ...

Because he constantly goes after the LGBTQ community, with statements like "marriage is between a real man and a real woman." "There are only two sexes: Male and Female," and also stating that he doesn't acknowledge 'gay marriage' because it's A moral. I'm so sick of these reich-winged, lying, ChristoFascists who accuse others of being what they are in the GQP US Taliban putin party. I hope they all get exposed, and you best believe that since he outed the GQP and their wild sex, cocaine parties they're gunning for him, and unless his deep red district in NC approves of his behavior he should be gone. But then again, maybe those ChristoFascists in his district approves of his behavior, driving with a suspended license and going around packing heat all over the place.

[msongs]

2. IMO gossip not news. another gay is bad dailymail story, really? nt

[Jose Garcia]

6. F***ing your staff is a violation of House ethics rules

Just ask Katie Hill.

[RandySF]

8. So is making personal loans to staff.

[LenaBaby61]

40. It's news .....

Because of the way this clown talks about and stays insulting the LGBTQIA community on the regular with his evangelical tweets. Hypocrites, & mostly racist clowns guilty of treason from sun up to sun down: That's the GQP US Taliban putin party way.

[Haggard Celine]

3. Stick a fork in Madison.

He’s done.

[Swamp Snob]

32. You Think?

Matt Gaetz. Or Trump himself.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. The GOP is great at purging problems

Link to tweet

[TheBlackAdder]

13. Kind of makes one wonder what other kompromat the GOP has on elected people to keep them in line.

.

Sounds like there is a Binder Full Of Sleaze somewhere in GOP's possession.

Who knows, perhaps Vlad sent it over.

.

[Jerry2144]

25. I was thinking almost the same thing

They are revealing tremendous scandals against him and not holding back. This has to be deflecting, diluting, or distracting a soon to me revealed controversy which is much more worser than this.

[LenaBaby61]

41. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[hunter]

45. You can't become a Republican leader without kompromat.

That's what holds the party together -- blackmail and threats of mutually assured destruction.

Minor shit like this story frequently leaks outs but the worst shit remains hidden.

Sure some Republican may be gay (snicker, snicker...) but the worst shit involves huge sums of money, collusion with foreign powers hostile to the United States, mayhem, manslaughter, and murder.

Maybe Mike Pence became anathema to the party because the kinks he's hiding in his closet are not extreme enough.

[not fooled]

27. The great Charlie Pierce called it

[link:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39841527/madison-cawthorn-insider-trading-airport-gun/|

On the surface, as far as his politics go, Cawthorn isn’t any different from Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, or any of the other Bedlamites in the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives. So why has he turned into Velcro for almost every kind of public scandal? The answer may lie in the fact that, unlike those two, Cawthorn has made some dangerous enemies back home, the kind who want the wingnut playground all to themselves, and who have the money to buy their way in.

To understand what’s happened to Cawthorn, you have to go back to last fall. Art Pope is North Carolina’s Koch Mini-Me, a wealthy conservative sugar daddy who is probably the person most responsible for the newly insane state of North Carolina becoming newly insane.

In short, cross Art Pope as a Republican politician in North Carolina, and you have the political half-life of a dead vice president. In 2020, Cawthorn won the seat in North Carolina’s 14th district. He then embarked on his new career as a star in the House of Representatives’ new Rodeo Clown Caucus. While he was performing, the state legislature redrew the electoral map and it created a district tailor-made for Tim Moore, the speaker of the North Carolina House. Cawthorn decided that the new 13th congressional district was a tasty dish, containing as it does a slice of the city of Charlotte, so he jumped into that race. Moore raised the white flag instantly. At which point, the North Carolina Republican establishment, which is pretty far to starboard its own self, reacted the way Ned Beatty did to Peter Finch in Network. Cawthorn meddled with the primal forces of nature, and he…will…atone...Cawthorn is not without the wherewithal to make this a bloody fight. He’s got the war chest to do it, plus he’s already scared the GOP establishment’s champion out of the fight. You’d have to be a sucker at this point to discount the appeal of even mock-populism to the Republican base. And, of course, I wouldn’t worry about how those old photos of Congressman Cawthorn in lingerie made it into the media mainstream. Naw, not worried about that at all.

[Mike Nelson]

5. Ha-ha!

... this guy still thinks he a college freshman... he really has no place in Congress.

[StocktonNative]

12. Yeah, this fool is very goofy.

At 26yo, really too old to play frat party fckoff though.

Must be the money!

[quakerboy]

19. If its good enough for the SCOTUS and POTUS

How is it unacceptable for congress?

[smb]

9. Anybody ELSE Want To Talk About The Cocaine Orgies? Didn't Think So! nt

[peppertree]

18. We can probably guess who brings the coke...

[usonian]

10. Democrats! Here's Willie Horton 2022, even if he "accidentally" falls out a window.

No, he's wasn't tucking his shirt in. Last post of this tip. I promise.

[StocktonNative]

11. Madison says "I'm not gay...my boyfriend is!"

Brokeback Mountain rocks!

[dalton99a]

21. +1.

[Warpy]

24. Now we know why that simple earthen vessel dumped his sorry ass

I guess even animated flowerpots have their limits.

[Qutzupalotl]

14. The party is done with Cawthorn.

They're releasing the kompromat, drip by drip.

Now do Gaetz and Jordan and Greene and Boebert…

[peppertree]

17. +1

He broke the Lindsey Graham commandment:

Thou shalt not let the gay become a matter of public knowledge.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. That's exactly what CNN said tonight. GOP wants him out

[IronLionZion]

26. He blabbed about their secret drug orgies

Maybe his youth and inexperience made him forget to keep his mouth shut

[KPN]

30. He blabbed, they blabbed. Oh boy, this could get interesting. Where's the popcorn?

[sop]

15. Like the way you worked in "male," "staff" and "member" in a title containing "hand" and "crotch."

Well done.

[IronLionZion]

16. Might explain why he hates women so much

"earthen vessels" and all

[AntiFascist]

20. LOL my gaydar still works, but sad there are so many amongst the Republicans n/t

[Blue Owl]

22. Who knew Mad Caw was an angry power bottom

[Bristlecone]

28. He is getting run out of town by his own. No doubt about it

They want him gone. And my “they,” I mean the GOP.

He broke the golden rule. Don’t talk about Sex and Blow Parties.

[sakabatou]

29. Not LBN

[TlalocW]

31. I think this is just "Gay Chicken"

Where you try to freak out heterosexuals, and they try not to react. It can be immature or funny if done right (story below), and honestly reveals Madison's anti-gay feelings considering how he was acting before and would be a nothingburger for voters, but...

It really shows that republicans are really coming after him. If he hadn't pissed them off, they would be defending him because they know it's "Gay Chicken."

Fun story - I, a heterosexual, was invited by another heterosexual, to go visit a gay friend of his (who I had met before) to see the friend's new house. Immediately upon entering, the gentleman linked his arm in mine and took me around the house. When we left, my first friend, who had way more gay friends than I did, said he was impressed as he honestly would have been freaked out with the whole arm linking thing. I told him there were four possibilities I considered.

1. The guy thought I was gay, and I didn't care.
2. Whether or not number 1 was true, he thought I was cute so I'm flattered.
3. He considered me an ally.
4. He was playing Gay Chicken, and I wasn't going to lose.

TlalocW

[NullTuples]

33. I think perhaps that Venmo history farther down in the story is far more incriminating.

[Emile]

34. The right wing Evangelicals will forgive him. The magic R

is so powerful even God will forgive.

[pressbox69]

35. This story reminds me of Bohemian Grove.

[bucolic_frolic]

36. I'm not sure their video viewing habits involve YouTube

[Omaha Steve]

37. Kick

[rambler_american]

38. Thou shalt not...

Thou shalt not confront thy staff with thy rod.

[IronLionZion]

42. What is it with Republicans and crotch grabbing?

Regardless of gender, this seems to be common in their party whether it's Trump or many others. Must be a power thing because it doesn't sound pleasurable.

[newdayneeded]

43. Welp...

that should do it for Cawthorn!

[ToxMarz]

44. I remember his "quicky" marriage shortly after he was elected to congress

with no publicity that he was even engaged and without a ceremony, the ceremony was held months later. That marriage ended in divorce 8 months later. Always seemed to be a marriage of convenience just for appearances. I think everything about him is for appearances. Convenient just after the photos of him dressed in drag come out, he coincidentally gets caught AGAIN trying to catch a plane with a gun. I am certain it was to flip the conversation to something more "butch", because he was never going to face any consequences for the gun, just accolades from his base.

[onetexan]

46. i felt nauseous reading those few lines of utter filth. The kid needs to be investigated & expelled

from Congress & never be allowed to run for office.