Embattled Rep. Madison Cawthorn has actually implicated the North Carolina “political establishment” of trying to undermine his political career with “salacious lies” after he was cited for possessing a loaded gun at an airport for the second time.
Throughout a more than two-minute Instagram video published on his account Tuesday, the North Carolina Republican charged he was a victim of a “coordinated attack” versus conservative first-term members of Congress.
“It’s going on across the country, but [in] North Carolina, we have the North Carolina political establishment and one RINO senator who are really targeting me,” he said, using the acronym for “Republican in name only.”
“They’re coming hard,” Cawthorn ranted. “They’re putting hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars to be able to defeat me.”
Cawthorn, 26, is dealing with a handful of oppositions in the May 17 GOP main, consisting of state Sen. Chuck Edwards, who Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) has endorsed.
An Super PAC lined up with Tillis recently invested more than $300,000 to air an ad attacking Cawthorn, declaring the freshman congressman showed a pattern of dishonesty, according to reports.
In the Instagram video, Cawthorn identified criticism of him imposed in surveys and commercials “ridiculous, salacious lies.”
“We’re starting to see this coordinated drip campaign. … It’s where they’re going to drop an attack article every one or two days just to try to kill us with death by 1,000 cuts, and that is really their main strategy,” he fumed, as he scoffed at “political shenanigans” and added that he is “very confident” his reelection campaign will be successful.
The tirade was provided after Transportation Security Administration employees on April 26th early morning stated they discovered a packed Staccato 9mm pistol in Cawthorn’s bag throughout security screening at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
Cawthorn was last detained with a weapon in February 2021, when he attempted to board an aircraft in Asheville with a 9mm pistol and magazine in his carry-on travel luggage, according to WLOS.
A report in The Washington Examiner also suggested that Cawthorn may have broken the law by engaging in insider trading.
Recently, a dripped recording revealed that a previous Cawthorn staffer is filing a complaint against the scandal-scarred legislator for supposedly incorrectly declining to approve time off after 2 unforeseen household medical emergency situations, consisting of the death of her uncle and her other half suffering a cardiac arrest.
Cawthorn likewise just recently dealt with scrutiny after he compared Capitol Hill to its portrayal in the Netflix series “House of Cards” and discussed expected cocaine-fueled orgies.
“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 told the Warrior Poet Society podcast.
“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.”
