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A major question about that Madison Cawthorn gay cousin-humping video is still unanswered

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Anti-LGBTQ Rep. Madison Cawthorn has been trending all day on Twitter after a leaked video showing him naked, in bed, with his male cousin began circulating online.

Cawthorn appears to be reenacting some sort of rape fantasy by thrusting his groin in the cousin’s face while another person films the encounter encouraging him to “Stick it in his face!”

The disturbing video was first shared by American Muckrakers PAC, a political group that runs the Fire Madison Cawthorn website.

Related: Madison Cawthorn groped by male staffer in leaked video and the Internet has a lot to say

Now, openly gay Democratic Party power player Jon Cooper, co-founder of the Democratic Coalition, has posed an interesting question about the whole thing to his nearly 1 million Twitter followers.

“Is anyone else wondering who released yesterday’s video of Madison Cawthorn humping his cousin?” Cooper tweeted. “If it wasn’t Maddy or his cousin, I guess that leaves the other friend who filmed it.”

Naturally, people have a lot of ideas about who the cameraperson was.

Here’s what they’re saying…

In March, Cawthorn claimed several leading GOP figures had invited him to orgies in Washington D.C. and that he had witnessed them snorting lines of coke.

Then last month, Politico released photos of Cawthorn wearing women’s lingerie at a party on cruise ship.

And just last week, video of Cawthorn being groped by one of his male staffers hit the internet.

Cawthron responded to the gay cousin-humping video in a tweet yesterday, suggesting he is the victim of blackmail and a smear campaign.

“A new hit against me just dropped. Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. We were acting foolish, and joking. That’s it,” he wrote. “I’m NOT backing down. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. Blackmail won’t win. We will.”