Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), career is built on lies
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), the young congressman who told Republicans to “lightly threaten” their representatives before the Capitol riot, has built his political career on a series of oafish lies. The slightest scrutiny has turned up a rejection from the Naval Academy and a fake real estate business. (Cawthorn claimed he was accepted to the Naval Academy and that he was a successful real estate investor.)
An investigation by The Nation which applied the same level of attention to his claims about training for the Paralympics appears to have turned up predictably similar results.
Cawthorn, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a 2014 car accident, has hyped his supposed Paralympic career in campaign ads and on Instagram. One of his posts claimed that he was aspiring to break one of the 100-meter world records for disabled athletes.
That alone should have raised several red flags. There are dozens of classifications for disabled athletes in elite competition depending on the disability, and Cawthorn wrote that he was “a couple seconds too slow.” In other words, nowhere near the record. A regular person off the street could come within “a couple seconds” of any 100-meter world record; it’s only 100 meters.
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/ny-madison-cawthorn-republican-paralympics-20210122-7s7rfpqgmzaznbpmzq7lhwajku-story.html
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