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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMadison 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 Cawthorns talk, however, were not true. The friend, Bradley Ledford, who has not previously spoken publicly about the chapel speech, said in an interview that Cawthorns 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 Ds, 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 crowds 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)
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Feb 2021
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LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)1. The one thing I know Trump can do...
Is bring down and destroy the reputation of every person he sucks into his circle.
As he will with the Cawthorn and the Hawley. Its not like trump has had an epiphany of spirit. Hes on the same scorch and burn road as ever.
marmar
(76,982 posts)2. That dude seems like a DSM-5 type psychopath.
Kid Berwyn
(14,649 posts)4. Ask him about Berchtesgaden, vacation home of the "Fuehrer."