![]() ![]() Paul Gosar has offered praise for the embattled North Carolina Republican, while the House and Senate GOP have remained silent. A review of congressional tweets by Rolling Stone shows that so far only Rep. GOP Senator Predicts Trump 'Cannot Win a General Election'Ĭawthorn’s extremely online friends in Congress - House Republicans such as the aforementioned Greene, Gaetz, and Boebert - have not stepped up to defend him since the videos and photos began to leak in late April. (Throughout the primaries so far, Trump’s decision-making has repeatedly been guided by whether or not he thinks a conservative is, for instance, “ fucking disgusting,” “fucking gross,” or “ fucking weird.”) While Cawthorn’s endorsement is safe for the moment, his political fate now lies in hands that have been notoriously fickle throughout Republican primaries and the buildup to the 2022 midterm elections. (Trump has demanded that his allies propagandize his anti-democratic lies about that election being “stolen,” and has largely made it a litmus test for who in his party he endorses and who he tries to destroy politically.) The source who heard Trump’s lewd question about Cawthorn’s cousin noted that the ex-president made a point of saying that though Cawthorn needs to “get his act together,” as the source paraphrased, he did have the “good” opinions and did say what Trump wanted about the 2020 presidential election, for instance. ![]() He has also called besieged Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky “ a thug,” threatened “ bloodshed” over future elections, and posed for some unnervingly enthusiastic selfies at Adolph Hitler’s former mountain retreat.īut his gaffes never hindered his rise as a star within the MAGA world until the attacks on him took aim at his sexuality. He spoke at the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington on the day of the insurrection and urged voters to “ lightly threaten” representatives who refused to help overthrow the election during an appearance at a Turning Points USA conference. “But he’s been disappointed with Madison, and thinks he has problems handling his ,” specifically with the video and photos that have surfaced.Ī Trump spokesperson did not provide comment on this story.Ĭawthorn has courted controversy on a number of occasions before the recent leaks. “Trump is not at the point of pulling his endorsement, but the president says he wants to sit back and see what happens,” one of the sources recalls. Cawthorn has pushed back by dismissing the videos as years-old attempts at humor, saying their release is part of a plot from “the left.” ![]() Over the past three weeks, someone (or some group) has shared personal videos of Cawthorn engaged goofing in sexually suggestive antics with the apparent aim of raising questions about his sexuality to North Carolina voters. The twice-impeached former president has described some of what he’s heard about Cawthorn’s latest woes - and the online sexual imagery associated with it - as “gross,” according to two sources who’ve heard Trump speak about the matter in the past couple weeks. Just a month after he invited Cawthorn to speak at a North Carolina rally, Trump has grown increasingly annoyed and disappointed with his MAGA apprentice. Madison Cawthorn a star of the MAGA movement, but now the lawmaker risks falling out of The Donald’s good graces. ![]()
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