Homophobic North Carolina congressional candidate Madison Cawthorn is the latest rising star in the Republican party and it’s clear why. He ticks all the right boxes. He’s white. He’s male. And he’s an expert manipulator of the truth.
The 25-year-old Nazi enthusiast recently stopped by a private border wall in Texas and talk about sex slavery, specifically to peddle a debunked child sex trafficking conspiracy theory that’s been circulating among right-wing conspiracy theorists for a while now.
“Sure, there are children being human-trafficked across our border north into our country for sex slavery and many things that are unspeakable and terrible to think of,” he said.
“But what’s really going on is we are having a large group of cartels coming into our country, kidnapping our American children, and then taking them to sell them on a slave market, on the sex slave market.”
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Cawthorn then went on to falsely state that “tens of thousands” (that’s right, folx, tens of thousands) of American children go missing missing “every year” (yes, every year!!) because of Mexican drug cartels “coming into our country and doing harm.”
Cawthorn, who was homeschooled and only completed one semester at college before dropping out because of bad grades, didn’t mention where he got his information.
Nor did he explain why, as a candidate from North Carolina, he was campaigning at a border wall 1,500 miles away from his district.
But this isn’t the first time he’s been caught lying through his pearly white teeth.
In addition to falsely claiming James Madison signed the Declaration of Independence during his speech at the RNC this week, Cawthorn falsely stated that had been accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy before a serious car crash left him in a wheelchair. It was later revealed that he’d actually been rejected from the academy prior to his accident.
One thing he hasn’t lied about, however, is the time he was sexually aggressive towards a young woman in a secluded field.
Last week, Katrina Krulikas came forward to say she went on a date with Cawthorn in 2014, during which he took her to a secluded area and started interrogating her about her sexual history before pressuring her to sit in his lap and repeatedly kissing her against her wishes.
Cawthorn responded to the allegations by confirming they were true then saying he was just being “flirtatious” and said if felt unsafe she should have spoken up at the time and maybe he would’ve stopped.
“If she had any problem with this, I don’t see why it wouldn’t have been brought up right away,” he said. “I don’t really know what she was trying to insinuate that I was trying to do.”
Related: Madison Cawthorn says he intentionally lied about American history at RNC to troll fact checkers
Cam
So a Republican lies about American History to try to back up a false point, and lies to claim that scary not white people want to have sex with your children.
Yep, he’s ticking all of the Republican boxes.
Additionally, this is why the federal government needs to institute standards for homeschooling so more children don’t have to grow up ignorant like this guy. If we want to talk about real child abuse, his family not allowing him to develop critical thinking skills and getting a real education definitely qualifies.
Chrisk
Not finishing school and bad grades is a benefit since he’s proven he’s not one of those liberal elites.
His whole campaign is…I hate minorities as much as you do so vote for me. Of coarse being pretty and the sympathy thing gets the Republican women all worked up too.
Mister P
Please keep him out of Texas. We have enough right wing idiots for the whole country.
Hdtex
Aaron Schock redux. Review his browser history for gay pedohile snuff porn.
Creamsicle
He’s just a candidate so far, and there’s no indication that he’s obviously closeted. Just because he looks like he could be in a toothpaste commercial, doesn’t mean he’ll be a repeat of Schock. Aaron Schock was at least smart enough not to tweet out white supremacist dog whistles before even getting into office!
I really hope Cawthorn loses his race and that queerty doesn’t keep covering him just because he’s photogenic.
dhmonarch89
yes- Aaron was smart enough not to tweet out Nazi stuff- but he did post numerous nude pics and jerk off tapes to grindr while still in the closet….then get upset that people outed him. Entitled, arrogant idiot is the best phrase to sum up these two guys.
Chrisk
You mean that same Wall that Bannon and the other Trump cronies got caught siphoning out donations for yachts and other crap? Lol If you used that as an opportunity on how you’re going to work against corruption then that would make sense.
You can tell Cawthorn is your typical former high school air head jock with no ambition other then to himself.
Of coarse it’s Texas and they really hate minorities and immigrants so unfortunately this will probably work.
James
HE IS NAZI TRASH.
AxelDC
Why are you giving rapey Nazi so much press?
Creamsicle
Because queerty knows its audience like pretty young things. This guy is legitimately scary though. The way he’s tweeting nazi dog whistles, you’d think it was 2016 again.
AxelDC
Why are you giving RapeNazi so much press?
Hdtex
Graham likes to whine about hot white guys while secretly…well, you know what he’s doing.
Mister P
In Texas we do have a lot of right wing racists but honestly most people do not hate minorities or immigrants. We could turn this state blue if everyone who is eligible to vote actually votes.
Gay Thomas
This sleazy, fear porn swindler just can’t help but to keep stepping on his dick….oh wait, nevermind
bftlguy
You‘re terrible, Muriel! ? Thanks for the laugh!
CarterATL
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence! Reporters of this story must ask for names. To verify the number of children supposedly abducted by Mexican drug cartels for human trafficking, we need to hear from their families. Where is this supposedly occurring? Who are these children? A story like this requires faces other than Mr. Cawthron’s.
It’s not hard to get a family who has had a child abducted in front of a camera. They ALWAYS want to tell their story.
Where are the families?
barryaksarben
Well, homeschooling sucks. HE was close tho. He was very near where lots of kids are being sexually molested. The children that trump put in cages are being molested at a terrible rate by the border guards put there to protect them. Where is Qnon and all the save the children as*holes> Here is the child sex fring they so want to believe is out there. It is in TEXAS at those detention centers but we know they dont give a shit if the children arent white. Racist gop pigs
barryaksarben
If you know anything about this LIAR you know he lied about being hurt just before he was to start classes at the naval academy which is a giant lie. He knew weeks before his accident that he application was DENIED attendence.
dhmonarch89
how many of these sex slaves did Trump pay for via Epstein????
charlie_jackpot
Stop trying to make him a thing – you’re just amplifying his message
IndependentForever
A stinkin’ lying CONservative Republican. Nothing new there. So many of the Bible thumpers are hypocrites. There God must be so proud of the lives they lead. Homeschooled but only survived one semester in college. I will make the assumption Mommy was his teacher. Great job!!! Wonder how his day at school was divided. A little bit of math, maybe. A LOT of revisionist history. No science. At least half the day reading the Bible. Makes for a nice close-minded adult.
Norm
He’s gay.
garybw
I’ve lived in NC.
If it smells homophobic, if it speaks homophobic, it’s a homosexual.
North Carolina- a state of hate.
A church on every corner and hate in every house.
If his double wide looks like Downton Abbey- the tiara fits.
Topazme
The things we let handsome white men get away with….if it was any other man who wasnt good looking,he would have been cancelled a long time ago…in top of white privilege,this asshole has pretty privilege….and leftists like me have seen people like him and we see him as the douchebag and asshole he is because we believe in personal responsibility and personal ideological standards,and that every person should be judged by his own personal standards regardless of who he is,while rightwingers are shallow idiots who will stand by him because he is a shiny new object and because for them personal responsibility means nothing and tribalism is the utmost importance…no matter he is the worst person alive,if he is in your tribe,rightwingers will defend you…i am sure if Hilter or Stalin were alive and they said something nice about them,they would defend them also just like they do with Putin and Kim Jong Un
Prax07
Pretty doesn’t automatically mean good, or smart. He’s a turd in a wheelchair.
FridM
He’s a bottom….He has a hole made in his chair for quick entry. Sex on wheels.
HenryCameron
So, I haven’t read much on sex trafficking, but I just saw an article from AP about 40 kids that got rescued in Georgia. U.S. Marshals Director Donald Washington said the FBI has reports of more than 421,000 missing children and of those, around 90% are considered endangered runaways. One in 6 of the endangered runaways is likely to become the victim of sex trafficking, authorities said. (That’s over 70,000) According to Washington, roughly 300 young girls in the Atlanta area are lured into trafficking every month.