NC-11: Madison Cawthorn, disavows QAnon but repeats debunked sex slave theory
The July 30 event, billed as a “political seminar,” was held at the border wall built by the crowdfunding campaign whose organizers, most notably former Trump-adviser Stephen Bannon, were charged last week with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors.
In a campaign video posted on Instagram, Cawthorn invoked an unsubstantiated claim popular among fringe conspiracy theorists.
“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,” a somber Cawthorn 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.”
“Tens of thousands of our children are going missing every year,” he continued, “and it's because of cartels like MS-13 coming into our country and doing harm.”
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/08/26/madison-cawthorn-disavows-qanon-but-repeats-debunked-sex-slave-theory/5638402002/
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Ol’ Didn’t sign the Declaration is not the brightest bulb in the pack. Also is a Hitler tourist. Me no likee.
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