Madison Cawthorn appears to have been thoroughly humbled and humiliated by his embarrassing primary defeat last month. So much so that he’s begun distancing himself from his old buddy Donald Trump.
The disgraced, outgoing, single-term congressman now believes the ex-president created a “dangerous setting” outside of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In a recent interview on The Carlos Watson Show, Cawthorn was asked if there was anything he wishes he’d done differently when he spoke at Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally the morning of the insurrection.
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Replied Cawthorn, “Well, you know, one, I mean, you know, President Donald Trump said, ‘I want you to peaceably and patriotically protest,’ — that’s good on his part. But if I could go back, I probably and I had an opportunity to speak with the President, which I did not, I would have asked that he did not send or tell the crowd to go down to the Capitol.”
“You know, I think that that just put everything in a dangerous setting.”
Cawthorn went on to say that if he had a “crystal ball” and could change his own speech at the rally, he would have urged the MAGA militia to be more peaceful. Instead, of course, he told them to “fight”, saying, “We’re not doing this just for Donald Trump, we are doing this for the Constitution!”
Reflecting on January 6th, Madison Cawthorn said when Trump sent the crowd to the Capitol it “put everything in a dangerous setting.” pic.twitter.com/2OSkuxQ8Vw
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) June 20, 2022
This is a much different perspective than Cawthorn had back in February 2021, when he went on The Carlos Watson Show to say he had absolutely no regrets about what happened on January 6 or the violence that ensued at the Capitol, in which five people died.
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“I don’t regret it, actually, Carlos,” Cawthorn told Watson at the time. “When I did go speak at that rally, I was specifically trying to get across to the people that, ‘Hey, I am in Congress, I am going down to the Capitol right now to speak on your behalf.'”
Here’s how people on Twitter are responding to Cawthorn’s sudden change of heart…
BREAKING: Disgraced, defeated GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn finally turns on his cult leader Donald Trump, says that he shouldn't have sent his Jan. 6th mob to the Capitol because it "put everything in a dangerous setting." RT IF YOU THINK THAT TRUMP IS TO BLAME FOR THE INSURRECTION!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) June 20, 2022
Too little, too late @RepCawthorn . pic.twitter.com/NMj0lfTqDf
— DesertRoseInLV (@DesertRoseinLV) June 20, 2022
Cawthorn’s career is over, he might as well tell the truth.
— It’s Lose not Loose (@NoThankYou789) June 20, 2022
I thought they were just loving tourists with flowers and well-wishes for a safe democracy.
— Jeff Crowder (@JeffCrowder16) June 20, 2022
So like other appendages, his balls are purely ornamental
— IGotYourB*tch (@Dorothy1Parker) June 21, 2022
A little too late. Is he a RINO now?
— Gary (@gscucci) June 20, 2022
Sez the guy that helped create the monster he now rails against.
— TrumanDem (@TrumanDem) June 20, 2022
Does that mean he fears legal repercussions for his role?
— Michael Little (@Michael_Little_) June 21, 2022
Old style, new style pic.twitter.com/oyKMN1Uo8Y
— ℙ (@phillyzen) June 20, 2022
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ZzBomb
The concept of returning back to the real world must be setting in on him, where his antics would prevent him from ever achieving gainful employment. Sad that our members of Congress can’t be held to the same standard an average employee is in corporate America.
Ken A.
He’s set for life.
Den
He will easily get a position as a “pundit” or anchor at OAN, NewsMax, or FOX. He’s telegenic, disabled and “christian”, and possibly can read fast enough for the teleprompters. He’s a shoo-in.
ondaboat0069
He’ll end up (no pun) on K street where all republicans go as consultants and work for a think tank/lobbying organization making 6 figures
humble charlie
since when do you think corporate america has a better morality than any other criminal organization?
basils_Herald
Narcissism is a hard drug
Kangol2
Awww, the little fascist is now wheeling away from his master, Don the Con, to cover his own ass. Or as those videos shows, he isn’t really that concerned about that! I bet he really regrets blowing the whistle on those coke-snorting, orgy-participating GQP leaders. At this point do yourself a favor, Madison, and name names!
OhHellNo
Someone tell Madijoan Crawford she doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
dinard38
LMAO!!!!
OhHellNo
Do they have wheelchair ramps in prison? Conjugal visits with cousins?
thisisnotreal
dude, as a gay man in a wheelchair myself, please dont stoop to that level. i agree that madison is a first class scumbag and deserves everything he has coming to him, but you can call him out and trash him without dropping to the level of making derogatory statements about him being in a wheelchair. go wherever you want, just not there.
abfab
Don’t give Madzees a crystal ball. He would try to sniff it.
tjack47
Once an invertebrate, always an invertebrate.
rand503
This really pisses me off. If this idiot can admit that Trump was and is a danger to our democracy, then you know darn well that all republicans know and understand that. But they are either still under Trump’s thrall or too scared to say anything.
And this is how our democracy will die — because no one will speak the truth.
thisisnotreal
i think its also because no one wants to say anything as long as it benefits them to keep quiet. as long as the republican party and whoever leads it is advancing those individual peoples personal agendas, they wont say a damn thing. but the moment the party turns against them or stops benefitting them you bet they will have a lot to say. most of those people will step over whoever they need to and sell their own mothers if they stand to gain from it, sad but true.
gregg2010
This is all just so pathetic.
davegun2
Numb nuts. Both mentally and physically.
Ken A.
I always thought he was cute, crazy but cute.
Kevin Peter Tobiason
Nazi’s can be pretty… but they are never “cute.”
bachy
When there are no consequences, it becomes very easy for authoritarian personalities to veer into fascism.
David Myers
Hear hear!!!
Jim
I know I know It’s a little sick but I’m looking forward to his Porn career.
David Myers
LOL! I can just imagine. Hope he is a masochist who has to satisfy trump!
SDR94103
why is the photo filtered? Blotchy face from drugs?
Essie
Just when I thought I’d never have to see this idiot again . . . .
Funny how no other outlet has published this interview, only Queerty. No one else is interested in this has-been.
Rooter@402
True that.
Ronbo
Gremore wants to extend this creeps public career. He’s probably already made agreements to keep his name afloat.
Bad editor, corrupt twin.
justyouandi
The story doesn’t match the headline!
There really is no story here.
Rooter@402
Agree. Getting out of this comment now.
Mr-DJ
WAY too little – and WAY too late…!
Disgusting “Frat Boy Maddie” needs to go back home, grow up, and decided what he can legitimately be when he grows up.
whereshouldistart
I also wish I had a crystal ball so I could go back and put a condom on his dad’s dick.
johncp56
Ill say it again what a waste of a pretty face!
Henreid
There are several glaring problems with Madison Cawthorn’s statement that completely negate the myth that he “flipped on Trump”:
Cawthorn is still supporting Trump’s BIG LIE that the election was stolen.
Cawthorn doesn’t regret his vote AGAINST the certification of Biden’s electoral votes, AFTER the insurrectionists violently attacked the Capitol.
Cawthorn doesn’t regret his vote AGAINST impeaching Trump for inciting the mob to attack the Capitol.
The only reason Cawthorn now regrets the violence on January 6 is that it revealed the fascism of the Republican Party. In other words, Cawthorn just regrets that Republicans got CAUGHT trying to take over the U.S. government illegally.
David Myers
You’ve got him totally pegged! Excellent observations. Thank you.
CNY1983
sorry “dude” but you better decide what your “tags” will be in prison life.. top bottom oral anal….id give it much thought because you know, you’ll be in hog heaven.
BaltoSteve
Ever notice how many conservative ex-politicians seem to suddenly reverse on issues once they leave office and no longer need to kowtow to the party line? Funny about that, don’t you think?
t
Typical republican MO: pandering hypocrite.
msfrost
As The Worm Turns!
johncp56
His pretty mouth will do good in jail