The House Committee on Ethics said in a statement on Monday that it has opened multiple investigations into outgoing Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC).
The press release from the Committee comes after Cawthorn was defeated in the Republican primary for the seat representing North Carolina’s 11th District by Chuck Edwards, a three-term state senator and business owner.
The investigations into Cawthorn will look into his involvement with a cryptocurrency and whether he had an inappropriate relationship with a staffer.
&#8220;The Committee unanimously voted on May 11, 2022, to establish an Investigative Subcommittee,&#8221; the Committee <a href="https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-chairman-and-ranking-member-committee-ethics-regarding-representative-64">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;Pursuant to the Committee’s action, the Investigative Subcommittee shall have jurisdiction to determine whether Representative Madison Cawthorn may have: improperly promoted a cryptocurrency in which he may have had an undisclosed financial interest, and engaged in an improper relationship with an individual employed on his congressional staff.&#8221;
Cawthorn appeared to respond to the investigations by claiming on Twitter that they were coming from him because he was &#8220;a problem for the swamp!&#8221;
&#8220;Wow- I must still be a problem for the swamp! 👀,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;They’re still coming after me!&#8221;
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Wow- I must still be a problem for the swamp! 👀
They’re still coming after me!
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Cawthorn had become a headache for House Republicans, especially the leadership, with his name constantly appearing in news stories that were unflattering for the party.
Just a few of the negative stories that he&#8217;s been involved in have included being detained multiple times at the airport for having a loaded gun on him, accusing his colleagues of having cocaine-fueled orgies without providing evidence, and having an embarrassing video and photographs emerge of him.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/madison-cawthorn-admits-his-claims-of-lawmaker-orgies-and-drug-use-were-exaggerated-gop-leader">addressed</a> the situation after Cawthorn accused his colleagues of having cocaine-fueled orgies, saying that he no longer trusted Cawthorn.
“I just told him he’s lost my trust, he’s gonna have to earn it back, and I laid out everything I find is unbecoming. And, you can’t just say, ‘You can’t do this again.’ I mean, he’s got a lot of members very upset,” McCarthy said. “In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Then when he comes in, he tells me, he says he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage from 100 yards away.”
“It’s just frustrating. There’s no evidence behind his statements,” McCarthy continued. “And when I sit down with him … I told him you can’t make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole.”

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Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) conceded his bid for reelection on Tuesday, losing the Republican primary to GOP state Sen. Chuck Edwards.
Cawthorn’s campaign was buffeted in recent weeks by a number of leaks about his personal behavior prior to holding office, including the leak of a nude video. Cawthorn called Edwards to concede defeat late Tuesday after results <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/17/us/elections/results-north-carolina.html">showed</a> him trailing by about two points with almost all precincts reporting.
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Madison Cawthorn has conceded his North Carolina Congressional primary to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, campaign spokesman Luke Ball tells my colleague <a href="https://twitter.com/DianneG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DianneG</a>. CNN has yet to project the outcome of the race.
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Cawthorn lost despite earning and keeping an endorsement from former President Donald Trump. Trump endorsed Cawthorn last year, and reupped his support for the incumbent on Monday after Cawthorn had weathered weeks of negative press about his personal character.
“When Madison was first elected to Congress, he did a great job,” Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3489925-trump-backing-cawthorn-despite-lawmakers-foolish-mistakes/">said</a> in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social. “Recently, he made some foolish mistakes, which I don’t believe he’ll make again…let’s give Madison a second chance!”
At the beginning of May less than two weeks before the primary, a nude video of a man believed to be Cawthorn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nude-video-surfaces-of-madison-cawthorn-with-a-friend-lawmaker-says-blackmail-wont-win">surfaced</a> online. The video purports to show a naked Cawthorn in bed drag his groin over another man’s head and begin thrusting. The 26-year-old lawmaker appeared to confirm the video’s veracity while dismissing it as “blackmail.”
“A new hit against me just dropped,” he said in a tweet. “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.”
“I’m NOT backing down. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. Blackmail won’t win. We will,” he added.

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Beleaguered North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn faces yet another controversy after video of the Republican cavorting nude on a bed with another person surfaced and went viral.
“A new hit against me just dropped,” the GOP lawmaker <a class="link " href="https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1521994807526281218" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ylk="slk:tweeted on Wednesday" data-rapid_p="16" data-v9y="1">tweeted</a> on Wednesday, apparently acknowledging the veracity of the video. “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.”
&#8220;I’m NOT backing down. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. Blackmail won&#8217;t win. We will,&#8221; Cawthorn wrote.
In the 30-second clip, what appears to be a nude Cawthorn is shown in a bed and then climbing up to put his groin in what appears to be a man&#8217;s face, at which time he begins thrusting. Then a voice can be heard saying “Oh ma yah yah oh” repeatedly, and another male voice says, “stick it in his face.”
The latest video comes after photos surfaced showing Cawthorn dressed in women’s lingerie. At that time, Cawthorn also said it was a joke, saying the photos came from a “goofy” game on a cruise. Then a short video emerged that showed one of Cawthorn&#8217;s male staff members from his congressional office grabbing the 26-year-old lawmaker&#8217;s crotch. The latter video has sparked an ethics complaint, The Washington Times <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/29/cawthorn-crotch-grabbing-video-becomes-centerpiece/">reported</a>.
&#8220;The video shows Mr. Cawthorn, 26, in the driver’s seat of a car with his scheduler Stephen Smith, 23, who is sitting in the passenger seat with his hand in his boss’s genital area,&#8221; the Times wrote. &#8220;&#8216;I feel the passion and desire and would like to see a naked body beneath my hands,&#8217; Mr. Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair because he is paraplegic, says in an embellished accent.&#8221;
The controversial Republican has been all over the headlines of late, with allegations of insider trading, reports that he tried to bring a loaded handgun onto a plane &#8212; for the second time &#8212; and driving with a revoked license. Cawthorn also recently claimed top officials in Washington, D.C., invited him to orgies and did cocaine as he watched.
Cawthorn later admitted that those allegations were &#8220;exaggerated.&#8221; After Meeting with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the House GOP leader <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/03/30/cawthorn-mccarthy-orgy-cocaine-exaggerated">told</a> Axios, &#8220;It&#8217;s just frustrating. There&#8217;s no evidence behind his statements. And when I sit down with him &#8230; I told him you can&#8217;t make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole.&#8221;
&#8220;I just told him he&#8217;s lost my trust, he&#8217;s gonna have to earn it back, and I laid out everything I find is unbecoming. And, you can&#8217;t just say, &#8216;You can&#8217;t do this again.&#8217; I mean, he&#8217;s, he&#8217;s got a lot of members very upset,&#8221; he said.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn was cited for carrying a loaded gun at a Charlotte airport, marking the second time the congressman has been found with a firearm while attempting to board a plane.
Cawthorn&#8217;s citation was <a href="https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/sources-rep-madison-cawthorn-cited-having-gun-charlotte-douglas/6TXLJM4MJZAB3NXHEA7UNKMJ5E/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> by WSOC-TV, which cited local sources noting the discovery of a loaded 9mm handgun. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reportedly declined to comment on the alleged incident.
&#8220;It’s unclear if Cawthorn will face any criminal charges. A spokesperson for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department couldn’t immediately comment,&#8221; the outlet <a href="https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/sources-rep-madison-cawthorn-cited-having-gun-charlotte-douglas/6TXLJM4MJZAB3NXHEA7UNKMJ5E/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;The TSA does not release passenger information in any incident,&#8221; the TSA <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article260774752.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an email to the Charlotte Observer.
Cawthorn could be fined up to $13,000 if found guilty of the gun violation.
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BREAKING: Rep. Madison Cawthorn was caught trying to board a plane this morning with this gun at the Charlotte Airport. This is the second time the congressman has been caught. He faces fines up to $13,000. <a href="https://t.co/e5O4O43N3L">pic.twitter.com/e5O4O43N3L</a>
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The reported violation marks the second time the North Carolina congressman has been cited with a firearm at an airport.
In July, a report by WCNC-TV Charlotte revealed that Cawthorn was attempting to board a plane in Asheville, North Carolina, when TSA officials found an unloaded Glock 9mm handgun along with a loaded magazine in his carry-on.
&#8220;Audio recordings of law enforcement at the airport confirm that Cawthorn attempted to bring the gun through security with only minutes remaining before the flight (“…seven minutes until his flight…”) but that TSA staff detected the gun and detained him,&#8221; the <a href="https://firemadison.com/congressman-david-madison-cawthorn-caught-trying-to-take-a-glock-firearm-on-commercial-flight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> revealed.
The incident led police to question Cawthorn. Law enforcement reportedly secured the gun and wrote a report, though the congressman was not charged or fined.
Cawthorn was also reportedly found <a href="https://wlos.com/news/local/no-charges-after-cawhtorn-accused-of-taking-knife-to-school-board-meeting">carrying</a> a large knife when appearing to address the Henderson County Public Schools Administrative Offices in Hendersonville, North Carolina, in September, a <a href="https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/regional/madison-cawthorn-north-carolina-gun-asheville/275-9ea8366b-7e38-4708-823f-bebfcab0b542" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Class 1 misdemeanor</a>.
The concerns regarding weapons are the latest among a series of growing problems for the young political leader. Last week, a newly-released police dashcam video revealed that Cawthorn had been pulled over with an invalid driver&#8217;s license.
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Madison Cawthorn pulled over by police AGAIN. Cop has to confiscate his driver’s license because, get this, it’s invalid. Officer then has Cawthorn switch places with his passenger, so she can drive instead. <a href="https://t.co/fv94BQRvOT">pic.twitter.com/fv94BQRvOT</a>
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The traffic stop reportedly occurred on March 3, and Cawthorn was reportedly pulled over for slightly veering out of his lane. He was asked to switch seats with the passenger of the vehicle after his expired license was discovered. The congressman was also reportedly driving with an expired license plate tag.
The GOP House member was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10737653/Madison-Cawthorn-pulled-cops-asked-hand-revoked-license-new-dashcam-video.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also charged</a> for driving with a revoked license in 2017.

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Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) responded Friday to a report that showed him wearing lingerie by explaining the alleged context surrounding the photos.
&#8220;The revelation of the two photos is the latest in a series of unflattering headlines for the freshman member of Congress in the run-up to the primary in his first re-election bid,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/madison-cawthorn-photos-00027286">reported</a>. &#8220;Cawthorn has seven Republican opponents who see him as vulnerable.&#8221;
The photos were provided to Politico by &#8220;a person formerly close to Cawthorn and his campaign&#8221; and were confirmed by a second source who was also formerly close to the first-term congressman.
Cawthorn responded to the report by claiming that the photos were taken during a vacation cruise.
&#8220;I guess the left thinks goofy vacation photos during a game on a cruise (taken waaay before I ran for Congress) is going to somehow hurt me?&#8221; Cawthorn wrote on Twitter. &#8220;They&#8217;re running out of things to throw at me.”
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Madison Cawthorn explains: “I guess the left thinks goofy vacation photos during a game on a cruise (taken waaay before I ran for Congress) is going to somehow hurt me?”
He posted a link to the the cruise ship party. <a href="https://t.co/EE6MOidnQt">https://t.co/EE6MOidnQt</a> <a href="https://t.co/XDSmlMiojT">pic.twitter.com/XDSmlMiojT</a>
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Cawthorn posted a link to a blog post that appears to show the event, an adults-only scavenger hunt, on a Royal Caribbean cruise where Cawthorn wore the lingerie.
&#8220;What Royal Caribbean event has you sharing your underwear, putting lipstick on strangers and screaming at the top of your lungs? It&#8217;s the Quest game show, the adults-only scavenger hunt that ranks as a cruise can&#8217;t-miss,&#8221; the post <a href="https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=2299">stated</a>. &#8220;Quest is uproariously fun, supremely competitive, and it&#8217;s definitely for adults only, which is why it&#8217;s often scheduled after 11 p.m.&#8221;
Cawthorn caused uproar last month after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/madison-cawthorn-admits-his-claims-of-lawmaker-orgies-and-drug-use-were-exaggerated-gop-leader">claimed</a> that members of Congress had invited him to orgies and had consumed cocaine in front of him.
“Then all of a sudden you get invited. ‘We’re going to have a sexual get-together at one of our homes, you should come.’ ‘What did you just ask me to come to?’ And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy,” Cawthorn claimed without evidence during a podcast. “You watch them do a bump of cocaine right in front of you. And it’s like, this is wild.”
Cawthorn’s unsubstantiated claims set off a firestorm among House Republicans, which resulted in House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) having a meeting with Cawthorn.
Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/cawthorn-mccarthy-orgy-cocaine-exaggerated-e801218d-aa88-4f15-8925-204348711ba0.html">reported</a> on the meeting:
<blockquote>McCarthy said Cawthorn conceded some of his remarks were untrue and “exaggerated.”</blockquote>
“I just told him he’s lost my trust, he’s gonna have to earn it back, and I laid out everything I find is unbecoming. And, you can’t just say, ‘You can’t do this again.’ I mean, he’s got a lot of members very upset,” McCarthy said. “In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Then when he comes in, he tells me, he says he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage from 100 yards away.”
“It’s just frustrating. There’s no evidence behind his statements,” McCarthy continued. “And when I sit down with him … I told him you can’t make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole.”

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Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) allegedly admitted to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) during a meeting on Wednesday that his claims that senior lawmakers have used cocaine in front of him and that they have invited him to their homes for orgies are not true.
“Then all of a sudden you get invited. ‘We’re going to have a sexual get-together at one of our homes, you should come.’ ‘What did you just ask me to come to?’ And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy,” Cawthorn <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/30/mccarthy-slams-cawthorn-says-rep-walked-back-coke-and-orgy-claims/">claimed</a> without any evidence during a podcast last week. “You watch them do a bump of cocaine right in front of you. And it’s like, this is wild.”
Cawthorn&#8217;s unsubstantiated claims set off a firestorm among House Republicans this week, which resulted in McCarthy having a meeting with Cawthorn.
Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/cawthorn-mccarthy-orgy-cocaine-exaggerated-e801218d-aa88-4f15-8925-204348711ba0.html">reported</a> on the meeting:
<blockquote>McCarthy said Cawthorn conceded some of his remarks were untrue and &#8220;exaggerated.&#8221;</blockquote>
&#8220;I just told him he&#8217;s lost my trust, he&#8217;s gonna have to earn it back, and I laid out everything I find is unbecoming. And, you can&#8217;t just say, &#8216;You can&#8217;t do this again.&#8217; I mean, he&#8217;s got a lot of members very upset,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Then when he comes in, he tells me, he says he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage from 100 yards away.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s just frustrating. There&#8217;s no evidence behind his statements,&#8221; McCarthy continued. &#8220;And when I sit down with him &#8230; I told him you can&#8217;t make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole.&#8221;
Some Republican members said they intended to call out Cawthorn’s claims by pushing him to name the lawmakers.
“I think it is important, if you’re going to say something like that, to name some names,” Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/29/cawthorn-orgies-freedom-caucus-00021548">said</a>.
“Madison’s stuff irritates me because it’s not true,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said. “He’ll have to either name names or retract it.”

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The House Freedom Caucus, considered to be the most conservative bloc within the House Republican Conference, is calling on Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) to name names after he claimed some of his fellow members of Congress have invited him to orgies in Washington and snorted cocaine right in front of him.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) said he plans to talk to Cawthorn, a member of the caucus, about his allegations.
“I think it is important, if you’re going to say something like that, to name names,” Perry said in an interview with <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/29/cawthorn-orgies-freedom-caucus-00021548" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Politico</a>.
&#8220;Perry wouldn’t say whether the caucus would consider booting Cawthorn if he didn’t name names or share evidence to back up his salacious claims,&#8221; the political website said, adding that members of the caucus met Monday.
“And I haven’t talked to him at all, so I don’t want to predispose the conversation,&#8221; Perry added.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) also said he planned to speak to Cawthorn about the allegations, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/600181-mccarthy-to-speak-to-cawthorn-after-orgy-comment-sparks-gop-frustration">reported</a>.
Cawthorn&#8217;s claims have exploded around Washington, D.C.
&#8220;The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington. I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70 — [you] look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life, I’ve always paid attention to politics,” Cawthorn said in an interview on Thursday, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/madison-cawthorn-says-dc-is-orgy-filled-cocaine-fueled/">reported</a>.
“Then all of a sudden you get invited: ‘We’re going to have a sexual get-together at one of our homes, you should come.’ ‘What did you just ask me to come to?’ And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy,” he added.
Cawthorn, 26, also said he has seen leading national anti-addiction officials do cocaine. “Some of the people leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country, and then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you,” Cawthorn said. “And it’s like, this is wild.”
In an interview with John Lovell on the &#8220;Warrior Poet Society&#8221; podcast last week, Cawthorn was asked if Washington resembles the former Netflix series “House of Cards,” which featured rampant corruption.
“I heard a former president that we had in the ’90s was asked a question about this,” Cawthorn said. “And he gave an answer that I thought was so true. He said that the only thing not accurate in that show—that you could never get a piece of legislation about education passed that quickly.”
&#8220;Cawthorn appears to be <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/31/bill-clinton-said-house-of-cards-is-99-percent-realistic-here-are-eight-plot-twist-that-prove-hes-wrong/">quoting</a> from a 2015 Gotham magazine interview with Kevin Spacey in which Spacey, the star of House of Cards, said Bill Clinton told him &#8217;99 percent of what you do on that show is real.&#8217; The 1 percent that he got wrong? &#8216;[Y]ou could never get an education bill passed that fast,'&#8221; Mediaite <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/madison-cawthorn-claims-he-was-invited-to-a-washington-orgy-has-seen-leaders-doing-cocaine/">reported</a>.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Former President Donald Trump used to call Washington, D.C., &#8216;The Swamp,&#8221; but one Republican lawmaker says it&#8217;s more like a scene out of &#8220;Eyes Wide Shut.&#8221;
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) claims some of his fellow members of Congress have invited him to orgies in Washington — and snorted cocaine right in front of him, according to new reports.
&#8220;The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington. I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70 — [you] look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life, I’ve always paid attention to politics,” Cawthorn said in an interview on Thursday, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/madison-cawthorn-says-dc-is-orgy-filled-cocaine-fueled/">reported</a>.
“Then all of a sudden you get invited: ‘We’re going to have a sexual get-together at one of our homes, you should come.’ ‘What did you just ask me to come to?’ And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy,” he said.
Cawthorn, 26, also said he has seen leading national anti-addiction officials do cocaine. “Some of the people leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country, and then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you,” Cawthorn said. “And it’s like, this is wild.”
In an interview with John Lovell on the &#8220;Warrior Poet Society&#8221; podcast last week, Cawthorn was asked if Washington resembles the former Netflix series “House of Cards,” which showed rampant corruption.
“I heard a former president that we had in the ’90s was asked a question about this,” Cawthorn said. “And he gave an answer that I thought was so true. He said that the only thing not accurate in that show—that you could never get a piece of legislation about education passed that quickly.”
&#8220;Cawthorn appears to be <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/31/bill-clinton-said-house-of-cards-is-99-percent-realistic-here-are-eight-plot-twist-that-prove-hes-wrong/">quoting</a> from a 2015 Gotham magazine interview with Kevin Spacey in which Spacey, the star of House of Cards, said Bill Clinton told him &#8217;99 percent of what you do on that show is real.&#8217; The 1 percent that he got wrong? &#8216;[Y]ou could never get an education bill passed that fast,'&#8221; Mediaite <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/madison-cawthorn-claims-he-was-invited-to-a-washington-orgy-has-seen-leaders-doing-cocaine/">reported</a>.
Cawthorn was in the news earlier this month when he was charged with driving with a revoked license. The charge, a misdemeanor, carries up to 20 days in jail.
Police pulled him over in Cleveland County, North Carolina, on March 3, according to a <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2022/03/09/nc-rep-madison-cawthorn-charged-driving-revoked-license-court/9439056002/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot">report</a> from the Asheville Citizen Times.
“The driver was identified as David Madison Cawthorn, 26 years old of Hendersonville, N.C.,” said Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Marcus Bethea, adding, “During the course of the investigation it was determined that the driver’s license was in a state of revocation and he was subsequently charged with driving while license revoked.”
“Cawthorn uses a wheelchair after being seriously injured in a 2014 car accident in Florida,” Citizen Times <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2022/03/09/nc-rep-madison-cawthorn-charged-driving-revoked-license-court/9439056002/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot">noted</a>. “A friend who was driving fell asleep while Cawthorn slept in the passenger seat, according to his 2019 federal court filing against the insurance company.”
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) was charged this month with driving with a revoked license, a misdemeanor that carries up to 20 days in jail, though offenders are typically hit with a fine or probation.
According to a <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2022/03/09/nc-rep-madison-cawthorn-charged-driving-revoked-license-court/9439056002/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot">report</a> from the Ashville Citizen Times, the 26-year-old congressman was pulled over in Cleveland County, North Carolina, mid-morning on March 3, after his 2019 Toyota Truck crossed the center line.
Trooper Tyler Gantt cited the representative for driving with a revoked license. Cawthorn &#8220;was very polite and cooperative,&#8221; the trooper noted in his citation.
&#8220;The driver was identified as David Madison Cawthorn, 26 years old of Hendersonville, N.C.,&#8221; said Highway Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Marcus Bethea, adding, &#8220;During the course of the investigation it was determined that the driver’s license was in a state of revocation and he was subsequently charged with driving while license revoked.&#8221;
&#8220;Cawthorn uses a wheelchair after being seriously injured in a 2014 car accident in Florida,&#8221; Citizen Times <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2022/03/09/nc-rep-madison-cawthorn-charged-driving-revoked-license-court/9439056002/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot">noted</a>. &#8220;A friend who was driving fell asleep while Cawthorn slept in the passenger seat, according to his 2019 federal court filing against the insurance company.&#8221;

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A producer of MSNBC’s top-rated “Rachel Maddow Show” accidentally copied the office of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) on an email saying the show refused to contact Cawthorn because it “worried” the congerssman would want to appear on the show. The 26-year-old Republican has fired back that MSNBC’s “woke dystopian bubble” wants to “silence” conservative views.
“We are kinda interested in this AP story (below) that just dropped about Rep. Madison Cawthorn. A group of voters in NC is challenging his candidacy based on his ties to the insurrection,” an MSNBC senior producer wrote in an email to an NBC News staffer on Capitol Hill. The producer then asked:
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<li> Do you or any other NBC Hill folks plan to ask him for comment on this story? </li>
<li> If not, is that something you guys could do? We don’t have a relationship with his office and between you and me are a little worried that if we did inquire he might ask to come on and explain. I know that is HIGHLY doubtful, but don’t want to take that risk. </li>
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The MSNBC official apparently did not realize Cawthorn’s office had been copied on the email.
“Whoopsies @MSNBC!” Cawthorn mocked the network in a <a href="https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1480669544943595523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">tweet</a> after the story went public.
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Whoopsies ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>⁩! <a href="https://t.co/zKmJ0tHHIX">https://t.co/zKmJ0tHHIX</a>
&mdash; Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1480669544943595523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Fake news MSNBC doesn’t want to ‘take the risk’ that I’ll come on their show and trigger the left with my America First message and burst their woke dystopian bubble,&#8221; Cawthorn’s office said in a statement. &#8220;The left doesn’t want debate from conservatives, they want silence. And now we have it in writing. Sad!&#8221;
The email became the first public document to expose that Maddow, who has mentioned Cawthorn only a handful of times in the last year, typically in passing, fears a personal confrontation with the forthright Republican congressman.
The email also exposes one of the ways networks prevent those targeted by their hosts from personally holding their hosts accountable. Networks that belong to large news conglomerates, like MSNBC, secretly filter their requests for comment through other branches of the corporation, keeping the offending host at arm’s length from the individual whom the host intends to target.
The story that triggered the senior producer’s inquiry came when a left-wing nonprofit named Free Speech For People <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/group-of-nc-voters-file-complaint-attempting-to-block-madison-cawthorn-from-running">filed a lawsuit to prevent</a> the 26-year-old conservative, who displaced democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as the youngest member of Congress, from running for re-election this November.
The <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21176353-cawthorncomplaint">34-page</a> legal complaint notes that the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/">Fourteenth Amendment, section 3</a>, states that “no person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress” who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the U.S. government. The group then asserts that Cawthorn’s <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?507744-1/rally-electoral-college-vote-certification">two-and-a-half-minute speech</a> at the peaceful “Stop the Steal” rally last January 6 “led directly, intentionally, and foreseeably to the insurrectionists’ violent assault on the Capitol.” The North Carolina congressman, who has used a wheelchair since a car accident left him <a href="https://www.wxii12.com/article/north-carolina-24-year-old-partially-paralyzed-after-car-crash-could-be-youngest-member-of-congress/32991945">partially paralyzed</a> at age 18, told the crowd outside the Capitol to “hold your representatives accountable” and “make sure they stand up for election integrity.”
He concluded by leading the crowd in chanting, “USA!”
Cawthorn previously addressed the 2020 Republican National Convention from his wheelchair, where he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoQuSvRHisQ">hailed</a> “the dream of MLK and the American dream.”
Cawthorn’s spokesman <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/589011-north-carolina-voters-file-suit-to-disqualify-cawthorn-from-running-for?rl=1">dismissed</a> the group behind the complaint as “a dozen activists who are comically misinterpreting and twisting the 14th amendment for political gain.”
Cawthorn, who represents the 11th district of North Carolina, plans to seek re-election this fall in the state’s newly redrawn 13th district.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A group of voters in North Carolina have filed a complaint with the state Board of Elections seeking to prevent Republican Representative Madison Cawthorn from running for re-election in 2022, alleging that he took part in an &#8220;insurrection&#8221; during the January 6th Capitol riot.
The <a href="https://freespeechforpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/nc-14.3-complaint-cawthorn-final-2022-01-10.pdf">complaint</a>, filed by 11 voters in the newly-redrawn 13th Congressional District, argues that Cawthorn&#8217;s remarks at a rally held by former President Donald Trump shortly before the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot">Capitol riot</a> disqualify him from holding office under the <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/">14th Amendment&#8217;s</a> Disqualification Clause.
&#8220;The Challengers in this action, registered voters in the 13th Congressional District, have reasonable suspicion&#8230; that Representative Madison Cawthorn, a candidate for North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District, does not meet the federal constitutional requirements for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and is therefore ineligible to be a candidate for such office,&#8221; the complaint begins.
The complaint continues, &#8220;[u]nder Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Disqualification Clause, &#8216;No Person shall be a . . .Representative in Congress . . . who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress . . . to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same&#8230;&#8217;  Persons who trigger this constitutional provision are disqualified from congressional office, just as persons who fail to meet the age, citizenship, and residency requirements of Article I, section 2 of the Constitution are disqualified from congressional office.&#8221;
The complaint defines an &#8220;insurrection&#8221; as &#8220;actions against the United States with the intent to overthrow the 
government of the United States or obstruct an essential constitutional function.&#8221; Complainants then allege that &#8220;The events of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6">January 6, 2021</a> amounted to an insurrection or a rebellion under Section Three: a coordinated effort to prevent the Vice President of the United States and the United States Congress from fulfilling their constitutional roles by certifying President Biden’s victory, and to illegally extend then-President Trump’s tenure in office.&#8221;
Using a precedent from the North Carolina Supreme Court which says an individual engages in insurrection by “[v]oluntarily aiding the rebellion, by personal service, or by contributions, other than charitable, of any thing that was useful or necessary,” the complainants contend that &#8220;planning a demonstration or march upon a government building that the planner knows is substantially likely to (and does) result in insurrection or rebellion,&#8221; such as the planned march from President Trump&#8217;s speech on the National Mall to the Capitol, constitute engaging in insurrection.
The complainants argue that the Trump rally and subsequent march to the Capitol &#8220;led directly, intentionally, and foreseeably to the insurrectionists’ violent assault on the Capitol.&#8221; They then contend that they have &#8220;reasonable suspicion that Cawthorn was involved in either planning the attack on January 6, or alternatively the planning of the pre-attack demonstration and/or march on the Capitol with the advance knowledge that it was substantially likely to lead to the attack, and otherwise voluntarily aided the insurrection.&#8221;
A spokesman for Cawthorn dismissed the complaint.
“Over 245,000 patriots from Western North Carolina elected Congressman Cawthorn to serve them in Washington. A dozen activists who are comically misinterpreting and twisting the 14th amendment for political gain will not distract him from that service,” said spokesman Luke Ball, via <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/589011-north-carolina-voters-file-suit-to-disqualify-cawthorn-from-running-for?rl=1">The Hill</a>.

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Group Of NC Voters File Complaint Attempting To Block Madison Cawthorn From Running

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Retired Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, a failed Democrat congressional candidate, wrote an inflammatory tweet targeting Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), whom he lost to in November, saying that it was time to &#8220;start a domestic war&#8221; on &#8220;American terrorists.&#8221;
Davis&#8217; tweet comes after Cawthorn, who is confined to a wheelchair, participated in a January 6 rally for President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., for which Cawthorn received a fair amount of criticism.
&#8220;I was Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo for over 2 years and there’s far more evidence of Congressman Madison Cawthorn’s guilt than there was of guilt for 95+ percent of the detainees,&#8221; Davis wrote. &#8220;It’s time we start a domestic war on sedition by American terrorists.&#8221;
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I was Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo for over 2 years and there’s far more evidence of Congressman Madison Cawthorn’s guilt than there was of guilt for 95+ percent of the detainees. It’s time we start a domestic war on sedition by American terrorists.<a href="https://twitter.com/CawthornforNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CawthornforNC</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MadCaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MadCaw</a> <a href="https://t.co/ImbOB3yHVZ">pic.twitter.com/ImbOB3yHVZ</a>
&mdash; Moe — Quadruple Vaxxed Vet — Unaffiliated Voter (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1351164251830935558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson highlighted the tweet on his show on Monday night, saying, &#8220;Among those terrorists, the ones he says are literally more dangerous than al-Qaeda and therefore must be imprisoned and killed, is a 25-year-old wheelchair bound Madison Cawthorn, who was just elected by American voters to the United States Congress.&#8221;
&#8220;But according to Colonel Moe Davis, Congressman Cawthorn and the millions of Americans who agree with him, the ones who voted Republican in November, must be subdued by force,&#8221; Carlson continued. &#8220;They are the enemy our military exists to fight. Now, keep in mind that Colonel Davis, Colonel Moe Davis, spent his life under arms, so you can be certain he isn&#8217;t using the term &#8216;enemy&#8217; in some metaphorical sense.&#8221;
The tweet comes after Davis has written other inflammatory remarks on the platform that would likely be deemed problematic by the media if he were a Republican.
&#8220;Screw they go low, we go high bullsh*t,&#8221; he wrote in 2019. &#8220;When @NCGOP extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure. He needs to know who whupped his ass.&#8221;
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Screw they go low, we go high bullsh*t. When <a href="https://twitter.com/NCGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NCGOP</a> extremists go low, we stomp their scrawny pasty necks with our heels and once you hear the sound of a crisp snap you grind your heel hard and twist it slowly side to side for good measure. He needs to know who whupped his ass.
&mdash; Moe — Quadruple Vaxxed Vet — Unaffiliated Voter (@ColMorrisDavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1171977530741526528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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