Madison Cawthorn was once a rising GOP star. In the end, Cawthorns team was declared the winner., But Cawthorn in particular stood out. Turning a stirring story of conquering adversity into a shocking political victory, he achieved his most ambitious career goal at a staggeringly early age. Cawthorn suffered "incapacitating" and "life-threatening" injuries, as the vehicle erupted into flames almost immediately after impact. Listen to the author discuss this piece with our Editor in Chief on the Lawfare Podcast. He climbed out, landed on the concrete and immediately turned around to unbuckle Cawthorn, with whom he pleaded to wake up, he says. He was memorable because of the wheelchair. Hes endorsed a person running for the Miami-Dade County Commission. I cant climb anything. We were just focused on caring about the people I want to represent., He talked to the New York Times. In the fall of 2016, he enrolled at Patrick Henry College, a school in Loudoun County, Va., with fewer than 400 students that exists to glorify God and prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture. The Saturday of Thanksgiving, a few weeks after Trumps election, Cawthorn struck a pose in front of the U.S. Capitol. This week Cawthorn tweeted a prebuttal to this story. "So I took my shirt off and wrapped it around his leg and then just kind of stayed with him until the paramedics got there.". By ERIN BANCO, GARRETT M. GRAFF, LARA SELIGMAN, NAHAL TOOSI and ALEXANDER WARD. I cant wake up in the morning without forgetting Im paralyzed and also falling out of my bed. Madison Cawthorn, the American politician who has been the 11th congressional district of North Carolina's representative since 2021, says that disability is not a problem at all for him. But his stunt last night proves that he has no place in Congress. Hes got some deep issues that will probably never go away, said Chuck Archerd, a Republican who ran against him in 2020. He had wanted to maybe play college football. He had wanted to maybe be a Marine. Cawthorn, they say, is an immature college dropout with a thin work resume, a scofflaw and serial embellisher who was neither qualified nor prepared for the responsibility and the scrutiny that comes with the office he holds. Newly elected 25-year-old Congressman Madison Cawthorn has taken a different approach: he's trying to have it both ways. "I remember his leg was pretty badly cut from the accident and we were sitting on the side of the interstate," Ledford recalled. Unlike other members of the 4Chan Caucus, who weaponize cruelty and outrage toward specific ends (like overthrowing American democracy), Cawthorns bizarre stunts are more often than not completely purposeless, combining the usual far-right malice with an extraordinary sense of obliviousness. Should he be elected in November, at age 25 years old, he'll be the youngest member of . NORTH Carolina representative Madison Cawthorn was involved in a serious car crash in 2014. Madison is a proven fighter. A leaked video of a nude Cawthorn thrusting his pelvis into another man's face is the latest scandal to embroil the freshman congressman since he talked about cocaine use and orgies on a podcast . PUBLISHED 4:20 PM ET Dec. 13, 2022. History Made. Video: Madison Cawthorn calls Ukrainian president 'thug' 01:47 Now playing . He started what he called a real estate investment company through which he purchased for $20,000 a single 6-acre lot in rural Georgia. My friends, he said, I want you to chant with me so loud that the cowards I serve with in Washington, D.C., can hear you. During the storming of the Capitol, he called into the radio show of right-wing talker Charlie Kirk and said he believed some of the ransacking mob were antifa and people paid by the Democratic machine.. Terms of Service apply. The recovery is not complete, said David Rhode, a fellow Hendersonville native who knew Cawthorn pre-politics but now works for Wendy Nevarez, another one of Cawthorns current opponents. Amanda Greene for Politico Magazine, You dont just wake up being paralyzed and go through a really hard time and then all of a sudden youre better, a friend of Cawthorns told me. I feel like he thinks that he could have done so much more had the accident not happened, said Hunter Clark, a former intern in Cawthorns district office. Politics is like a vice amplifier And then when youre a young man who has a terrible accident like that, and your identity is kind of stripped from you, all of that is amplified even more.. Ever since, North Carolina Republicans have been waging a full-throated campaign toremove Cawthorn from Washington. I cant bail hay. When he first ran for Congress, Cawthorn spoke up for reporters who other Republican candidates wanted to kick out of a public forum. A string of embarrassing incidents has led many to question whether the young congressman from North Carolina was really ready for the job. Cawthorn has cast himself as a standard conservative Christian Republican, though his tone has evolved. "This is the guy who saved my life," Cawthorn said of Ledford. ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- We don't usually think of the gym as a place with nostalgic value.As Madison Cawthorn of Hendersonville goes through the motions at Reuter. Dec 22, 2021, 07:59 PM EST. I cant hike. That didnt mean he was recovered. And thats when I told him, Look, all due respect, Im going to have to pass on this position. (Cawthorn declined to comment. For other inquiries, Contact Us. I think I would say the election was not fraudulent, Cawthorn said on CNN. Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. He overcame injuries suffered in a 2014 vehicular . Cawthorn's victory was considered an upset. Women helped him change into lingerie and put makeup on., When we got there, the host announced from the very beginning that if you are easily offended, then this is not the show for you and gave people time to leave, said a man from North Carolina named Matt who declined to give his last name. Cawthorn posted the photo on social media shortly before his accident. Airport security stopped him for trying to bring a gun onto a plane (again). While his injury was a tragedy, others who have suffered such tragedies have endured without committing the crime of sedition, as . Because even power needs a day off. He has become one of the most vocal peddlers of the claim that the presidential election was fraudulently stolen from Donald Trump, another lie. His marriage amidst all this lasted less than a year. We dont want to be arrogant. He chided his opponent, Lynda Bennett, whom Meadows and Trump had endorsed, for refusing to commit to debate him. He has not done it for Cawthorn. I could get into all the reasons that Madison Cawthorn is not fit to serve in Congress. "I feel like battling against a spinal cord injury is a lot like battles in World War 1. In the March 2020 Republican primary for North Carolina's 11th congressional district, Cawthorn finished second behind Lynda Bennett, who had been endorsed both by former President Donald Trump and Meadows. WORKING BY APPOINTMENT ONLY, said a sign on the door. She is influencing an entire generation, he said. Cawthorn ended up dressed in womens lingerie. Want to read more stories like this? Months after he called them thugs, he said the insurrectionists in jail were political prisoners. Months after he said the election was not fraudulent, he said, If our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen, its going to lead to one place, and its bloodshed. In the midst of redistricting he tried to shift to a district that would have stretched east to the much larger Charlotte market before coming back when the maps were shot down. I cant wake up in the morning by myself. In 2014, a car accident shattered his ankles, pelvis, and back, leaving the 18-year-old Cawthorn paraplegic and suicidal. As a young adult I know I do., But his time on campus was a disaster. I cant go adventuring in places. Amanda Greene for Politico Magazine, Throughout 2018 and 2019, he continued to give motivational speeches at colleges and churches. LGB legends, the comment read. Neither he nor his spokesperson responded to The Washington Post. Rep. Tom Rice of South Carolina, who has not been shy about calling out his colleagues after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump last year, was even more pointed . Thats not my movement. Ledford veered from the interstate, crashing his father's SUV into a concrete barricade going about 65 miles per hour. Instead, Ledford said, he reached over Cawthorn and punched out the passenger window. David Madison Cawthorn (born August 1, 1995) is an American politician. She explained to me, he said of another, that she was basically going to teach me how to live in a wheelchair, and I remember saying, Well, thats pointless. Ledford told the Washington Post that Cawthorn was unconscious after the crash, a claim buttressed by a deposition in which the future congressman said he had no memory of the accident. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. As the youngest Congressman in modern history, Madison Cawthorn set out to prove his critics wrong and his supporters right, and he did just that! Afterward, he said, they ended up together at an Italian restaurant in Bryson City called Pasqualinos. The injuries from the accident left Cawthorn partially paralyzed from the waist down, and he now uses a wheelchair. This photo provided by the Transportation Security Administration shows the handgun that officials say was found in Cawthorn's carry-on bag at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport security checkpoint in April. Cawthorn, now 25, exploited his tale of his crash at age 18 for his successful 2020 House campaign. And while Cawthorn widely is seen as a favorite of Donald Trump he spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention and appeared at a recent Trump rally near Raleigh Trump in 2022 conspicuously has not issued an endorsement email for Cawthorn the way he has for scores of other candidates. He tried to kick out the windshield, but it wouldn't budge. I have to represent everybody now, so I shouldnt have done that, he said. I said, Listen, I think this young guy can get in a runoff. an extraordinary accomplishment at a young age by a man who suffered a horrific injury. Coursing through many of my conversations with people in Cawthorns district is a belief that the accident ravaged his body and messed with his psyche but that winning the election has harmed him too. I read somewhere, said one of the attorneys toward the end of the day-long deposition, that you wanted to be a congressman?, Cawthorn speaks with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and supporters after a "Get Out the Vote" rally with North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis in October 2020. Cawthorn has also claimed that he was accepted to Princeton and to an online program at Harvard, only to later confess that he hadnt been admitted to either. Cawthorn has said in mailers and text-message blasts that he has Trumps. He was one of the contestants, but he emerged as the winning star, said Melissa Burns, a woman from Tennessee who was on the cruise and at the show. David Madison Cawthorn (born August 1, 1995) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2021 to 2023. Its never going to fully go away., Based sort of on my background as a minister, largely I see him as a young man who has been through a very traumatic, life-changing event and who has been politically radicalized by the far right, in a way where he also gains access to significant power and resources, and whos now deploying that influence in very dangerous ways, said Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, whos running in the Democratic primary explicitly to try to defeat insurrectionist Madison Cawthorn., We know, she said, that young men in particular are susceptible to radicalization when they feel isolated and invisible., The guy, said Jim Blaine, a North Carolina-based Republican consultant whos done polling on this race, clearly needs to figure out who he is., In the middle of last week, in the middle of the day, in the middle of a campaign, his main district office was locked. Madison Cawthorn is wrong on every level. That same day, the conservative-leaning Washington Examineralleged that Cawthorn may have violated insider-trading laws. And within weeks if not days of being sworn in at 25 years old one of the youngest members in the history of the House he had put himself on a short list of the chambers most known figures. Writing for the conservative Washington Examiner, investigative reporter Andrew Kerr claimed that Rep. Madison Cawthorn dropped close to $3000 in taxpayer money at a lavish resort in his hometown . Cawthorn, who had been sitting with his feet on the dashboard suffered serious injury including a spinal fracture at his T11 vertebrae leading to partial paralysis. View our online Press Pack. He assumed office on January 3, 2021. The most charitable way to see Cawthorns first month in Congress is that it was the last gasp of his best self. Tomorrow we go to the moon!, The next day, Lets Go Brandon announced a sponsorship deal with NASCAR driver Brandon Brown, which raised its value by 75 percent. Below is everything you'll need to know Cawthorn, 26, is an American politician currently serving as the US Representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district. Theres an elephant in the room that we havent been talking about, and that is the empty seat, said Woodhouse, the former district GOP chair whos now running against him. Congressman Cawthorn, it said. He runs to safety deep in the woods and just leaves me in a burning car as the flames start to lick my legs and curl up and burn my left side.. We concede that he does often get applause.. He worked for us and answered the phone, and couldnt even do that, just to be honest, this person said. Together, the loaded gun and the crypto incidents shed light on what separates a Cawthornean scandal from the controlled chaos of other far-right figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz. Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn is facing allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct by several women who say he put them in uncomfortable situations when he was a college student, with the . To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. Cawthorn was living with his parents in a house that had been renovated for his wheelchair. Rep. Madison Cawthorn says his fellow lawmakers have invited him to take part in orgies in Washington and snorted lines of cocaine right in front of him. The year before, on his 19th birthday, in the last week he spent at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta that specializes in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, he had told his family he would be standing up for you the next time they sang him happy birthday. | "He needs to get his act together. He said it would be boring., Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Ledford explained how he moved toward Cawthorn and felt an intense heat on his right arm, then realized flames were engulfing the back half of the SUV. Cawthorn eventually attended Patrick Henry College, a conservative university in Virginia that typically enrolls between 300 and 400 students, where, by his own account, he mostly received Ds before dropping out. To conservatives, lets define what we support, and win the argument in areas like health care and the environment, he said from the stage at the Republican National Convention that August. Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at POLITICO and POLITICO Magazine. A former close friend of right-wing Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) told The Washington Post the lawmaker lied about a car wreck that partially paralyzed him. The nurse holding his hand. I have experienced more pain and more suffering than the overwhelming majority of people go through, he told the Washington Examiner. Mother Jones illustration; Brandon Bell/Getty. While testifying as part of a 2015 lawsuit connected to the accident, Cawthorn said it was his dream to become a congressman. He proposed marriage to his girlfriend the week after that. The longer, though, hes been in office, the less penitent hes been. Madison Cawthorn (@CawthornforNC) August 11, 2020. . A former close friend of right-wing Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) told The Washington Post the lawmaker lied about a car wreck that partially paralyzed him. | He is just 24 years old, his name is Madison Cawthorn, and he scored one of the big upsets in the primaries on Tuesday in North Carolina, said Whoopi Goldberg. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. Amanda Greene for Politico Magazine, I was truly impressed, George Erwin, the politically influential retired Henderson County sheriff, told me. On election night in November 2020, Cawthorn gathered his family and friends in anticipation of a victory, and joining him was Ledford. "Madison Cawthorn is a clear and present danger to our nation whose re-election must be fought every step of the way," wrote David Wheeler, president of the American Muckrakers Pac, which is . How do you know that?, Everyone is always hopeful, but, I mean, with my injury, its unlikely that Ill walk or procreate or, you know, recover.. People certainly do emerge as sort of the most outgoing or ambitious, she said, due to what theyre willing to do. And Cawthorn was so memorable to Melissa Burns and Matt not because of the lingerie. Amanda Greene for Politico Magazine, Think about it, what hes gone through, she continued, mentioning his accident, his candidacy in 2020 that took him in a little more than eight months from a no-name who had just gotten off a cruise to a primetime speaking slot at the RNC, the dizzying year and a half hes been in Congress, his quickly broken marriage. Cawthorn, a 26-year-old Republican from . Screenshot from Instagram, Clearer for Cawthorn were the first conversations he had with his therapists once he was in Atlanta. He had said during the deposition he was full-time he would tell the Asheville Citizen-Times the same thing during the campaign but he wasnt. He needs to grow up," said John Fredericks, a syndicated pro-Trump radio host . In their depositions, Cawthorn stated that he had "no memory from the accident," while Ledford said that he had helped rescue an unconscious Cawthorn. I cant get through the day without pain. When Cawthorn was a teenager, he and his friend Bradley Ledford were driving back to North Carolina after a spring break trip to Florida, when Ledford fell asleep at the wheel and crashed. More recently hes lost the backing of the top two Republicans in the state Legislature, House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger; the states GOP senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis; and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in Washington. David Corn, Noah Lanard, and Dan Friedman. It is pretty well documented that Testosterone levels are dropping . Two years later, he enrolled at Patrick Henry College, a conservative Christian school in Virginia . Madison Cawthorn, the youngest member of Congress whose two years in Washington were marred by a steady stream of embarrassments that exasperated GOP leaders, lost his seat in a Republican primary contest on Tuesday night. Cawthorn should be tested for a brain stem injury because he's f*cked in the head. Do you want me to continue?. In a speech he made to the student body in a chapel on campus, he falsely suggested he had gotten into the Naval Academy before the accident, and he said Ledford had left him to die in the car in a fiery tomb when Ledford in fact had helped pull him out. Cawthorn had been sleeping in the passenger seat, reclined back with his legs on the dashboard. He is a member of the Republican Party.Cawthorn was the U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 11th congressional district from 2021 to 2023.. During his time in Congress, he was the youngest member of Congress since Jed Johnson Jr. Four and a half years after Cawthorn contemplated suicide, he was running for Congress. Cawthorn described the moment to The North State Journal, saying that at a Meadows victory party, the congressman got on his knees, at Cawthorn's eye level, and asked him to come work for him . Haunted by ambition, he wrote. Three days after he sent the texts to Ledford, some 40 miles south of the site of the accident that broke his ankles, his pelvis and his back, Cawthorn sat in an office in Orlando for a deposition for his (first) auto negligence lawsuit filed against his friend and his friends fathers company. More than 150 former students at his college signed a letter late last year accusing him of sexually predatory behavior, which Cawthorn has denied. | Madison Cawthorn's accident was a car accident that happened after he was returning from a spring-break trip to Florida with his friend who has been identified as Bradley Ledford. Madison Cawthorn just paid $100,000 for a Tesla Model S. Madison Cawthorn also has a $120,000 Audi A6 in her garage. Queen City News published the dashcam video on Friday. But for Cawthorns older, more experienced advisers, the tweet was one of the first signs of a stark, disquieting change. Rod Honeycutt saw Cawthorn over the weekend at the Asheville Gun & Knife Show at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in Fletcher. That is not at all what happened. He shrugged off the lingerie snaps as " goofy vacation photos " and of Wednesday's humping video, he tweeted: "A new hit against me . He needs to grow up," said John Fredericks, a syndicated pro-Trump radio host . Madison Cawthorn was born in Asheville, North Carolina, on August 1, 1995. Yes, Cawthorn is in a wheelchair after becoming paralysed from the waist down. Here he was, though, three weeks past the date he turned 20, the handsome, charmed second son of an upper middle class financial adviser father and a homemaker mother who doubled as her boys teacher, a onetime football linebacker, avid weightlifter and duck-hunter, cheerful Chick-fil-A cashier. Im sure her and I will get along when I get to Congress., Black lives matter, Cawthorn said that month during a debate with his Democratic opponent Moe Davis, a retired Air Force colonel and former prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP, Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP, and Ting Shen/Getty Images, Interviewers keyed in on the comeback story he had leaned on throughout his bid. | In 2014, Cawthorn, who at the time was 18, was injured while returning from a spring-break trip from Florida. Madison Cawthorn at the Republican National Convention. McCarthy said he needs to turn himself around.. Madison Cawthorn! Then immediately after that Trump said of Bo Hines, a different congressional candidate in North Carolina, You know, Bo, you have my complete and total endorsement, OK? So far this month, Trump has endorsed in written statements from his Save America PAC four sitting congressmen from Pennsylvania, five sitting congressmen from Kentucky, one sitting congressman from Florida and one sitting congressman from Nebraska. Cawthorn announced the news in a statement and cited " irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the split. Days later he was on "The View.". You either need to give up or you need to move on. That night, he said, he stayed up for more than four hours making a list of pros and cons of staying alive.. Back home in North Carolina, he made a vision board, or goal board. If he does, and your person doesnt, will you support him? And they said, Well take your word for it., Were going to win in silence, Cawthorn told Kyle Perrotti from the Mountaineer newspaper in Waynesville one week into the campaign to the runoff. Most of the others running had been at an NAACP forum in Hendersonville, including the handful of Democrats, but OConnell and Cawthorn had opted to go to the meeting of the Republican club of Swain County. He tweeted it was time to fight. On Jan. 6, at the Save America rally at the Ellipse, he was one of the speakers who revved up the crowd. In interviews with outlets ranging from local newspapers to Jewish Insider to CNN, Cawthorn expressed regret. Soon-to-be-former Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) used his last speech on the House floor on Wednesday to rally his colleagues against the impending threat of "soft metrosexuals."In a fitting coda to a bizarre single term in office, Cawthorn wasted his final precious minutes on C-SPAN sounding the alarm on the death spiral of masculinity. Cawthorn in a tweet . In a 2017 speech, Cawthorn said that Ledford left him "to die in a fiery tomb," however, Ledford publicly disputed this in 2021 saying that he pulled Cawthorn from the wreck once he escaped the car. I decided I was going to live my life, he said. (Cawthorn stated in a February 2022 video that he owned at least some LGBCoin, though its unclear when exactly he acquired it. Amanda Greene for Politico Magazine, When it was over, I sought out Matthew Burril, who casts his candidacy in a decidedly faith-based light. Right-wing U.S. Republican lawmaker, Madison Cawthorn defended himself on Twitter after a sex tape was released showing him forcefully thrusting his groin inside a man's mouth. Im not going to be in a wheelchair. And then they explained to me that I was indeed going to be in a wheelchair.. His campaign has more debt than cash on hand. I cant work out. He made outlandish and unsubstantiated comments, He called the Ukrainian president a thug,, POLITICO was the first to publish photos of the event. Just one endorsement anyway matters the most. The video published by American Muckrakers PAC, according to UpdatesPlug, showed Rep. Madison Cawthorn naked in bed, with his wheelchair beside the bed, carrying out the sex act with [] And yet he spent parts of the following few weeks, as Congress moved swiftly toward impeachment of the outgoing president, saying he was sorry. God is good.. Madison Cawthorn posted a picture of him in the hospital surrounded by his medical team on July 19, 2016. Its impossible for me to be around you because seeing you just makes me remember who Madison Cawthorn was, and I really miss being him., Cawthorn poses with his parents Priscilla and Roger in 2018, on the front porch of their home in Flat Rock. He said that after he was elected to Congress in . Cawthorn claimed he was declared dead after the wreck. Youre not part of my party, he told Olivia Nuzzi of New York. who sent Biden a letter on Inauguration Day, He called on Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment, He cleaned a gun during a Veterans Affairs committee hearing, He went to a school board meeting in Hendersonville. He had a fundraiser at a restaurant in Hendersonville on Wednesday. "On April 3rd of 2021, my life has once again changed. Ill probably never be able to procreate. Stayed probably 20 minutes, he told me, and then rolled on out of there.. He told mothers to raise their sons to be monsters. He disparaged the Ukrainian president. 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