It’s only Tuesday and Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is already having what is arguably the worst week of his career thus far.
First, Buzzfeed published a damning report about the homophobic lawmaker over the weekend in which more than 30 of his former friends, classmates, and acquaintances accused him of sexual harassment, misconduct, and other inappropriate behavior.
The accusations included things like calling the women derogatory names in public, interrogating them about their sex lives, forcing them to sit in his lap, grabbing and kissing them without their consent, and locking them in his car then driving them to remote areas.
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Then the Washington Post ran a story claiming Cawthorn lied about that 2014 car crash that left him partially paralyzed.
Bradley Ledford, who pulled Cawthorn from the wreckage, opened up for the first time about the accident and offered a drastically different version of the story than what the young politician told people on the campaign trail last year.
Cawthorn claimed he was left to die “in a fiery tomb,” but Ledford says that’s “false” and that he “pulled him out of the car the second that I was able to.” In addition to that, Cawthorn claimed he was “declared dead” after the crash, but the police report says he was “incapacitated.”
Now, Cawthorn and his team are struggling to deal with the fallout from the onslaught of negative press.
Not only has his communications director, Micah Bock, set his Twitter page to private, but he’s absolutely failing in the damage control department.
Instead of, say, crafting a statement in response to the scandals or holding a press conference to try and clear up any misconceptions, Bock has been dodging requests for comments and instead referring media outlets to two random quotes Cawthorn gave last September while on the campaign trail:
On September 4th, 2020 Rep. Cawthorn responded to the questions you are asking, saying: “I have never done anything sexually inappropriate in my life”
On September 4th, 2020 Rep. Cawthorn said: “If I have a daughter, I want her to grow up in a world where people know to explicitly ask before touching her. If I had a son, I want him to be able to grow up in a world where he would not be called a sexual predator for trying to kiss someone.”
As for Cawthorn, he hasn’t said anything about his PR nightmare on social media, nor has he given any interviews about it. Instead, he went on Fox News this morning to talk about… Dr. Seuss.
Seriously, folx, you can’t make this sh*t up.
Speaking to Fox & Friends, the 25-year-old railed against people trying to “cancel” the popular children’s book author. Evidently, that’s the most pressing matter on his agenda at the moment.
Madison Cawthorn was on Fox & Friends First for an interview this morning. He was never asked about the multiple sexual harassment allegations made against him, but he was given an opportunity to rail against the purported cancelation of Dr. Seuss. pic.twitter.com/fC0XpVj8Lg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 2, 2021
Cawthorn clearly does not want to talk about the multiple scandals he’s currently embroiled in. Unfortunately for him, his name has been trending all day on Twitter.
Here’s what folx are saying…
Maybe it's just me…..
But Madison Cawthorn gives off major American Psycho vibes.
— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) March 2, 2021
Just so I understand: Madison Cawthorn would take girls on "fun rides" to sexually harass and assault them and then later a "fun ride" with his best friend paralyzed him?
And then he lied and said his friend abandoned him when in reality he saved him?Can't make this up.
— Carly Norman (@carlymnorman) March 2, 2021
Raise your hand if you don’t want to hear another word about Andrew Cuomo until we start getting similar outrage and coverage of Madison Cawthorn. I’ll start.
????????????????????
— MaiaMae (@maiamimi) March 2, 2021
wow i see madison cawthorn was on fox this morning after all the stories about him i wonder if they asked him ab—
oh pic.twitter.com/oazJjHL79v— David Mack (@davidmackau) March 2, 2021
Where are the calls for lying sexual predator Madison Cawthorn to resign?
— Matt Murphy (@MattMurph24) March 2, 2021
Not only has GOP Rep Madison Cawthorn sexually harassed women on his "fun rides" he also degraded them on Campus. Unbelievably, he also lied about the accident that left him paralyzed. His own parents said he lied. But none of this matters to Repubs because he's one of theirs.
— Amy Lynn ???? (@AmyAThatcher) March 2, 2021
Found myself explaining to someone all the ways in which Madison Cawthorn is awful and throwing in "oh, and there's also some Hitler fetish stuff…" It was like the fifth thing on the list!
— Jody Avirgan (@jodyavirgan) March 2, 2021
Madison Cawthorn is a serial sexual predator, lied about his military service, lied about athletic prowess, celebrated Hitler, stocked his social media profile with call outs to white nationalists.
He is the perfect modern Republican. There is no other Republican party.
— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) February 27, 2021
Is there anything Madison Cawthorn HASN’T lied about?
— steph ??? (@adashelbys) March 2, 2021
it makes sense that madison cawthorn would be the one Fox interviews about Dr. Seuss being that he still reads them and all
— dr. mantis toboggan (@JamesJonathon3) March 2, 2021
It's never going to get better until there is the same ire and accountability for Madison Cawthorn from both parties, as there is for Cuomo. Crickets right now on Cawthorn.
— Amy Siskind ???? (@Amy_Siskind) March 2, 2021
I enjoy seeing Madison Cawthorn exposed as much as the next person but I have to wonder why this dime store Tom Brady doppelganger's skeletons are only really coming to light after he's in office. Can we stop the next guy before he's elected, please?
— JJ in NH (@JustJoshinNH) March 2, 2021
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Heywood Jablowme
Apparently his only actual WORK experience before Congress was…
several months working at Chik-Fil-A!
TomG
Did anyone expect anything different from a repukelican ? I didn’t.
Catholicslutbox
But he’s hot, so no one cares.
-Graham G.
Cam
And again, let’s also not forget, he lied about working full time for a Congressman on his resume. And lied about being accepted to the Naval Academy.
So the guy’s a sexual predator and a liar, and this is who FOX and the GOP are promoting as a future leader.
TomG
Sadly the republican party has fallen lower than low, and at this point are now the Trump fascist party. This won’t change until their leadership does something about that and SOON.
Ed Hawkins
“So the guy’s a sexual predator and a liar, and this is who FOX and the GOP are promoting as a future leader.” Quelle surprise!!! The boy is just imitating the golden idol, the one that practically had to be firebombed out of the WH. GOP = Gross old pissartists.
novadude
Of course he’s who the GOP wants. He’s just like Trump.
ShiningSex
He got paralyzed from having a blowout getting banged at all day gloryhole f**kfest
MHaumesser
Another lying, cheating, thieving Republican?!? Say it isn’t so!
darklight413
Has anyone noticed that whenever something is morally or legally wrong that Fox “News” is right there to support it? Anything un-American and you can bet fox will endorse, support and broadcast it because republicans are usually right in the middle of it.
TomG
That is because Fox has become (like Trump) the new face of fascism in the nation.
cuteguy
Faux news is nothing but a propaganda network for the Trump cult. Trump calls everything else fake news bc it deflects from the actuality that the network he favors is the actual fake news.
maicol
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LumpyPillows
I dislike this guy a lot. He is unqualified. He is a liar. He is like quite a few congress people in that respect, unfortunately. And still this woke piling on bugs me. Actual evidence of any crime is still missing from anything I’ve read. All we have is the picture of an aggressive young man who is too full of himself and bugged girls to go driving with him. Not saying more isn’t coming, but I do believe in innocent until proven guilty, even for dickheads.
Cam
You left out that he lied about his accident. He claimed he was left to die. A Lie according to witnesses. He claimed he died, another lie, the hospital simply said he was not responsive and unconscious.
He lied about getting into the Naval Academy.
He lied about having a full time job with a congressman from his district.
Mehki
What do you need, him shooting somebody in the middle of fifth avenue?
Got news for you, being locked in a car with some creep going on a “fun ride”, with some dude who looks like the profile of a serial killer or mass shooter… Wasn’t the least been “fun” for his victims.
I think the words kidnapping, abduction, being held against your will is in there somewhere
LumpyPillows
Did you miss the sentence where I declare him a liar? While I agree with your points, they have nothing to do with my post.
jayceecook
Since I’ve been Twitter free 6+ years I’ll just drop this here for “JJ in NH” and his ilk…
Cawthorn was exposed before he was elected. All of these allegations were made while he was running for office. His own parents said his story about how he was paralyzed was false. The university he briefly went to before dropping out had a letter published by it’s student newspaper condemning him and calling for voters to reject him at the polls. These same women who are accusing him now and some of the men who witnessed some of his predatory behavior ALL spoke out BEFORE he was elected. This is not a failure on the media’s part to cover these stories. They did. Yet the people of N.C. still voted for him, biggly as his living idol would say, anyways. Same with those Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann wannabes. At what point do we turn our attention and outrage at the people who willingly chose to elect these horrible people into office? They are the real problem. Because without them the Cawthorns, Boeberts, and the Greenes of the world would not even be on our national radar.
LumpyPillows
I agree that all of this was known in some form prior to the election. So, what is it about liberals that so many people hate enough to overlook this unqualified child? (Hint – the woke, white, whiners running the cancel Twitter war.)
trsxyz
Seems to be a combination of the decline in our public education system, and the decline in our standards of what constitutes moral behavior that is responsible for candidates like Madison Cawthorn getting elected. (Does anyone believe that in current America, Richard Nixon would need to resign office over something like Watergate?) And yes, it’s also because the opposing “woke” candidates are pretty unappealing to the sane.
Den
” (Hint – the woke, white, whiners running the cancel Twitter war.)”
Calling out someone for their hypocrisy, well documented lying, and alleged sexual predation is not whining.
Neither is an expectation for truthfulness from politicians whining or “woke”! It is more correctly called an intelligent expectation.
You have two posts here that actually support this creep! And are quite a bit more whiney than a listing of the well supported allegations against Cawthorn are.
Both of your posts foolishly denigrate the “wokefulness” of those who prefer ethics and honesty in their politicians.
What exactly do you prefer?
The same subtle hypocrisy you display?
Hopefully this is simple enough for you to understand.
Essie
Thanks for writing that because I thought I was crazy. I remembered hearing all of this BEFORE the election . . . all the sexual predator stuff, the lying, the fact that he is totally uneducated. . . but people are saying no one knew. That is totally not true. Everyone should have known. I was shocked that the people of NC still voted him into office. I suppose there are a lot of people in the area he represents and they just don’t care what a horrible person he is.
LumpyPillows
@den I suggest you read what I wrote again because your comments are off topic. I asked why 40% of America refuses to vote for democrats.
Kangol2
@LumpyPillows, one could easily flip that remark and ask why 50+% of America refuses to vote for Republicans. A Republican candidate has not won the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 elections. That has not happened since the GOP effectively became a presidential party in 1860. Democratic Presidential candidates have also won more votes than Republicans in every election since 1992, save 2004 and the margin and total vote numbers keep increasing. In this last Presidential election, Democrats received 7 million more votes than the GOP candidate, and a record-setting 81 million votes (and counting) over all. The 50 Democratic Senators represent 41 million more Americans than the 50 Republican Senators, on top of which several of the races the Republicans won this most recent cycle were quite close (in North Carolina, etc.), suggesting that even in “red” states, there are more Democratic voters than you seem to imagine. This is the reason the GOP goes to such lengths to gerrymander, restrict and suppress votes, disinform with crap like Don the Con’s “Big Lie,” and more. They are not winning a majority of American voters, and it’s because of who they are and what they are. You can’t blame that on “wokeness” or anything else.
Polaro
@Kangol2 you totally missed the point. You are not wrong, but you are talking to yourself.
AxelDC
Max claims Congress hasn’t done anything, but the House has already passed 61 bills in 60 days, including at $2 trillion COVID Relief package that is now in the Senate.
Kangol2
You got it. They said the same thing when Obama was president, then shrieked at the bills the Congress passed and which he signed. It’s pure nonsense.
cuteguy
Of course Faux News won’t ask him about this but they have 24 coverage of Gov Cuomo. Completely biased. As long as they cater to the lowest denominator aka GQP aka Q’anon. This guy will get a pass bc he’s a retrumplican. If only the Dems had the same loyalty to ppl of their own party.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Madison Cawthorn is as big a pile of garbage on the right as that AOC is on the left, interestingly enough though queerty never berates or reports on her for her ridiculous behavior
Cam
@TheAbsoluteTRUTH
This is one of the other screenames for Roy Ajax, Monkey1, Openminded, etc..
And troll, your sad attempt to deflect from sexual harassment allegations and documented lying to compare it to a politician you hate because she is a woman, not white and a democrat is obvious and tired.
Time for you to retire and send a smarter troll.
Den
Gosh, you dullard right wingers are amusing as hell when you display your inability to think properly.
Cawthorn is an habitual liar with very little understanding of government or ethics.
AOC, by contrast, has no past scandals.
She went, of her own accord, and raised a few million to benefit those suffering in Texas.
She has demonstrated an ability to compromise across the aisle, when possible given the childish intractability of the right these days.
When stripped of the hysterical right wing labels of “socialist”, or “communist”, a majority of American voters support many aspects of her progressive agenda.
Many right wingers, typically mendacious, accused the outages in Texas on her Green New Deal, clearly ignorant of the fact that there was no green new deal legislation in existence, and the outages were the result of unregulated power companies too cheap to upgrade equipment running natural gas generating plants, NOT the loss of the 12% of Texas power that comes from wind.
She is highly regarded by her constituents, and for good reason.
So, little boy, to avoid being laughed at, what EXACTLY is the “ridiculous” behavior of AOC’s that you refer to?
Be specific, or be seen as a fool.
LumpyPillows
Comparing AOC to MC is laughable. In what specific ways are they the same? I’ll wait, but I won’t hold my breath.
brian6767
How many stories have you run about Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment behavior again??
cuteguy
@brian6767
Andrew Cuomo has been a lgbt ally for years. Now even though that doesn’t excuse his alleged harassment, he’s not homophobic nor hypocritical like your new GQP poster boy. Now pls stop trolling on here and go back to faux news site.
Cam
The difference being that Democrats are calling out Cuomo, and as always Republicans are defending or ignoring the Cawthorn harassment.
Den
Cawthorn has already been caught in a few lies. HIS PARENTS HAVE EVEN SAID HE HAS LIED ABOUT THINGS. And as regards his sexual aggression, it has been corroborated by his buddies.
As for Cuomo’s behavior, it is being called out by the Democrats as well as the Republicans, though as yet it remains as allegations. By contrast Cawthorn is clearly a hypocrite on several levels, and it is hat hypocrisy Queerty is ridiculing, and that you are too dull to see. Why is the right always so pitifully dull and simple?
Den
A more important story is Cawthorn lying about his accident preventing him from entering the military academy, when the real reason was he failed to be granted entry BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT. He is not a man of intellect or ethics. But intellect and ethics are suspect qualities to far right wingers.
He was also accused of being a sexual predator BY MORE THAN 150 OF HIS CLASSMATES, who signed their names to a letter accusing him. So they were willing to face serious repercussions if proven wrong.
By contrast, 3 women have accused Cuomo of unwanted advances; a far cry from locking women in a car and driving them out to remote areas against their will. That is the action of rapists and serial killers in training. But, again, the right wing loves that kind of behavior, “putting the girls in their Bible ordained place.”
Not at all surprising that Brian6767 is coming out in support of this guy.
PrinceofPrussia
Reminds me of the paralyzed pig farmer on Criminal Minds that killed all those girls and fed them, bones and all, to the hogs. Madison + girls = icky.
[email protected]
Misguided, pathetic, (and gay) Jerk!
Marco
From Wapo: Cawthorn dropped out of the [conservative christianist] college after a single semester of mostly D’s.
‘Nuff said.
BoomerMyles
Cawthorn also attempted to make the public think his paraplegic state was from a military injury until he was called out on that.
Hdtex
Looking forward to his inevitable gay for pay OnlyFans site.
Den
He has the kind of looks that will fade quickly, and soon.
His depravity, anger and stupidity are becoming more and more apparent in his face.
Plus, if there is any justice in the world, his accident will have robbed him of the ability to get his willy up.
blackhook
Is that jerk painting his face the color of a baboon’s ass just like his buddy Trump? Sad!
frankcar1965
I love seeing him in that wheelchair, with someone having to wipe his butt, every single time he has to crap, if he doesn’t have an ostomy already. Can you say schaudenfreunde ten thousand times?!!!
The real Bruce
When I first saw that picture posted about the story, I thought OMG it’s a Cawthorn robot! And that face! With his adoration of Hitler, I think he would have a perfect leader of the Hitlerjugend (Hitler youth). His poor education level, his ability to expertly lie to anyone about anything would have made him ideal for the job. Poor North Carolina. Ain’t Mayberry no more!
Kangol2
Except that Hitler and his ilk despised physically disabled people, believing them to be defective and thus not part of the “Master Race.” They were among the first the Nazis attacked, beginning with forced sterilizations in 1933 and a euthanasia (killing) program, T-4, in 1939, gassing them to death, until the Roman Catholic Church Cardinal Clemens von Galen bravely spoke out about this (Hitler did not dare touch him for fear of enraging still observant Catholic Nazis), and then they took the killings underground. So Cawthorn wouldn’t have gotten very far with the Nazis or the HitlerJugend.
The real Bruce
Kangol2, I don’t think a car accident would count. Besides, he would lie his way out of it. And being so good at it would make him propaganda material just like he is now. He could have blamed their “enemies” for his mishap and go after them in the name of his leader. They would have loved him!
HenryHawke
Another Republicon caught in a lie. How yesterday’s news. S.S.D.D. Show me an honest Republicon and I might believe they’re relevant. But you can’t. The GOP is filled with nothing but liars and seditionists. That’s my opinion and I’m sticking with it.
pickles
Queerty, kudos for covering this story. His sleazyness needs to be revealed. So gross. Yeah Cuomo is embarassing but this is just as bad and needs more coverage. Well done.
Cam
Is he getting spray tans? Because if he isn’t, his skin is going to be in some rough shape in a few years. That is either bad makeup or a lot of potential sun damage.