GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn Cleans Gun During Veterans' Affairs Hearing

[JoeOtterbein]

Daily Beast

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) lived up to his claim to fame on Wednesday of being the youngest current member of Congress.

Jose Pagliery
Political Investigations Reporter
Updated Jan. 20, 2022 3:03PM ET / Published Jan. 20, 2022 3:00PM ET

The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee took Wednesday as an opportunity to hold a virtual hearing on how toxic chemicals are killing U.S. soldiers. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) took the hearing as an opportunity to clean his gun.

Cawthorn, the youngest current member of Congress, fiddled with his black pistol while one witness explained how university medical researchers could help the government examine how burn pits are harming military service members.

“It was immature. He’s a child. He lacks common sense. I think the congressman was overcompensating for something that he lacks and feeling inadequate among the heroes on that call,” said John Feal, a 9/11 first responder who was at the virtual meeting.

Feal was one of at least two people at the Veterans’ Affairs meeting who noticed what Cawthorn was doing. Both were infuriated. But the general public couldn’t see it, because the two-hour virtual hearing was held over Zoom—which meant that those tuning in could only see the person speaking.

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[Stinky The Clown]

1. Is that not against House rules?

What a little fuck.

[msongs]

2. it was on the internet not in a room together nt

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Ah . . . just a childish little man acting out

[msongs]

7. maybe his wheelchair is like a stagecoach and he is riding shotgun. hmm nt

[Paladin]

11. Or maybe he's just a piece of filth. (nt)

[Marcuse]

3. I thought Capitol terrorists were being searched after 1/6.

[Marcuse]

4. Ah...he was probably at home.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Making up for his non functioning penis

[pwb]

8. They jerk off with their guns?

Some people are saying.

[Poiuyt]

10. There's something terribly Freudian about this

[mahina]

9. He can't give anyone the dignity they deserve

Because he is an ignorant, foolish, selfish little shitweasel.

[Emile]

12. I wonder if he has covid dick and cleaning his gun makes him feel like a man again!

[gristy]

13. Yikes.

If someone was to do this in a zoom call where I work, I imagine they would not be working there for much longer.
Clearly an intimidation tactic.

[Jilly_in_VA]

14. Maybe

he'll shoot himself while doing that. He's just dumb enough not to check whether the damn thing is loaded before he cleans it. My great-grandfather supposedly did that, but I think he intentionally committed suicide. (He had reasons to.)

[Vinca]

15. Shame he didn't have an on camera "accident."