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Sun Feb 28, 2021, 12:33 PM Feb 2021

Madison Cawthorn: Big Time Liar.

The making of Madison Cawthorn: How falsehoods helped propel the career of a new pro-Trump star of the far right https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/27/making-madison-cawthorn-how-falsehoods-helped-propel-career-new-pro-trump-star-far-right/

Madison Cawthorn was a 21-year-old freshman at a conservative Christian college when he spoke at chapel, testifying about his relationship with God. He talked emotionally about the day a car accident left him partially paralyzed and reliant on a wheelchair.

Cawthorn said a close friend had crashed the car in which he was a passenger and fled the scene, leaving him to die “in a fiery tomb.” Cawthorn was “declared dead,” he said in the 2017 speech at Patrick Henry College. He said he told doctors that he expected to recover and that he would “be at the Naval Academy by Christmas.”

Key parts of Cawthorn’s talk, however, were not true. The friend, Bradley Ledford, who has not previously spoken publicly about the chapel speech, said in an interview that Cawthorn’s account was false and that he pulled Cawthorn from the wreckage. An accident report obtained by The Washington Post said Cawthorn was “incapacitated,” not that he was declared dead. Cawthorn himself said in a lawsuit deposition, first reported by the news outlet AVL Watchdog, that he had been rejected by the Naval Academy before the crash.

Shortly after the speech, Cawthorn dropped out of the college after a single semester of mostly D’s, he said in the deposition, which was taken as part of a court case regarding insurance. Later, more than 150 former students signed a letter accusing him of being a sexual predator, which Cawthorn has denied.
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[At 25, as the youngest member of the House] he used his newfound fame to push baseless allegations about voting fraud on Twitter in a video viewed 4 million times, which President Donald Trump retweeted, saying, “Thank you Madison!” Then Cawthorn spoke at the Jan. 6 rally where a mob was incited to storm the U.S. Capitol, again alleging fraud and extolling the crowd’s courage in comparison with the “cowards” in Congress. He returned to the Capitol, where he falsely claimed that insurrectionists had been “paid by the Democratic machine.”

(Cawthorn denied a retest for an interview)
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Madison Cawthorn: Big Time Liar. (Original Post) speak easy Feb 2021 OP
The one thing I know Trump can do... LakeArenal Feb 2021 #1
That dude seems like a DSM-5 type psychopath. marmar Feb 2021 #2
✔️ blm Feb 2021 #3
Ask him about Berchtesgaden, vacation home of the "Fuehrer." Kid Berwyn Feb 2021 #4

LakeArenal

(28,713 posts)
1. The one thing I know Trump can do...
Sun Feb 28, 2021, 12:40 PM
Feb 2021

Is bring down and destroy the reputation of every person he sucks into his circle.

As he will with the Cawthorn and the Hawley. It’s not like trump has had an epiphany of spirit. He’s on the same scorch and burn road as ever.

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