{"id":125300,"date":"2022-04-26T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=125300"},"modified":"2022-04-26T08:10:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T12:10:54","slug":"republican-congressman-madison-cawthorn-accused-of-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125300","title":{"rendered":"Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn Accused of Stolen Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congressman Madison Cawthorn (R)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been seeing quite a few articles on this so thought I would post it here.\u00a0 In a nutshell, a superPAC associated with North Carolina Republican senator Thom Tillis accused Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., of “lying” about his past in a new political ad released just last week.\u00a0 In the ad, seen here<\/a>, Tillis claims that Cawthorn claimed he got accepted into the US Naval Academy and that leverage swayed in favor of Cawthorn being elected.<\/p>\n

Madison Cawthorn called out for “lying” in new ad funded by Republican senator’s super PAC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New GOP-funded attack ad calls Rep. Madison Cawthorn a liar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Madison Cawthorn called out for ‘lying’ in new ad funded by Republican senator’s super PAC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Last week, Cawthorn, staunch religious conservative, took a beating over recently-surfaced photos of him wearing lingerie in what appeared to be a party setting. The photos were first\u00a0reported\u00a0by Politico.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter the pictures were released, Cawthorn suggested that they were part of a left-wing smear campaign.<\/p>\n

“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\u00a0tweeted. “They’re running out of things to throw at me \u2026 Share your most embarrassing vacay pics in the replies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This incident prompted various tweets.<\/p>\n

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Tillis, the senator behind the Super PAC ad, has endorsed Cawthorn’s primary opponent, state Sen. Chuck Edwards, who has also been backed by a number of other Republicans. Last month, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., firmly claimed that Cawthorn had “lost my trust.”<\/p>\n

Cawthorn is the youngest Republican to ever be elected to the United States Congress and is currently the youngest member of Congress.\u00a0 He is wheelchair-bound since age 18 as a result of injuries sustained in a 2014 car accident returning from a spring break trip to Florida.<\/p>\n

In regard to the claim about the US Naval Academy, Wikipedia states<\/a>:<\/p>\n

U.S. Representative Mark Meadows nominated Cawthorn to the United States Naval Academy in 2014, but his application was rejected before his 2014 car accident; Cawthorn had claimed during his congressional campaign in advertisements that the accident “derailed” his plans to attend the Academy.\u00a0 Cawthorn subsequently said that at the time of the injury, he knew only that he had been nominated to the Academy and that he had expected to be accepted, and added that he never said that he had been accepted before the accident took place, but could have applied again later.\u00a0 But in a lawsuit deposition, Cawthorn admitted that he had been rejected before the accident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not your normal Stolen Valor claim, but it is for you to form an opinion on.\u00a0 But, there’s a takeaway lesson here…<\/p>\n

Tip: If you’ve been accused of snorting cocaine off of a stripper’s butt, you may not want to counter that with “It wasn’t her butt.”<\/p>\n

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