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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn Cleans Gun During Veterans' Affairs Hearing
Daily Beast
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) lived up to his claim to fame on Wednesday of being the youngest current member of Congress.
Jose Pagliery
Political Investigations Reporter
Updated Jan. 20, 2022 3:03PM ET / Published Jan. 20, 2022 3:00PM ET
The House Veterans Affairs Committee took Wednesday as an opportunity to hold a virtual hearing on how toxic chemicals are killing U.S. soldiers. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) took the hearing as an opportunity to clean his gun.
Cawthorn, the youngest current member of Congress, fiddled with his black pistol while one witness explained how university medical researchers could help the government examine how burn pits are harming military service members.
It was immature. Hes a child. He lacks common sense. I think the congressman was overcompensating for something that he lacks and feeling inadequate among the heroes on that call, said John Feal, a 9/11 first responder who was at the virtual meeting.
Feal was one of at least two people at the Veterans Affairs meeting who noticed what Cawthorn was doing. Both were infuriated. But the general public couldnt see it, because the two-hour virtual hearing was held over Zoomwhich meant that those tuning in could only see the person speaking.
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Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) lived up to his claim to fame on Wednesday of being the youngest current member of Congress.
Jose Pagliery
Political Investigations Reporter
Updated Jan. 20, 2022 3:03PM ET / Published Jan. 20, 2022 3:00PM ET
The House Veterans Affairs Committee took Wednesday as an opportunity to hold a virtual hearing on how toxic chemicals are killing U.S. soldiers. Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) took the hearing as an opportunity to clean his gun.
Cawthorn, the youngest current member of Congress, fiddled with his black pistol while one witness explained how university medical researchers could help the government examine how burn pits are harming military service members.
It was immature. Hes a child. He lacks common sense. I think the congressman was overcompensating for something that he lacks and feeling inadequate among the heroes on that call, said John Feal, a 9/11 first responder who was at the virtual meeting.
Feal was one of at least two people at the Veterans Affairs meeting who noticed what Cawthorn was doing. Both were infuriated. But the general public couldnt see it, because the two-hour virtual hearing was held over Zoomwhich meant that those tuning in could only see the person speaking.
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GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn Cleans Gun During Veterans' Affairs Hearing (Original Post)
JoeOtterbein
Jan 2022
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Stinky The Clown
(67,812 posts)1. Is that not against House rules?
What a little fuck.
msongs
(67,421 posts)2. it was on the internet not in a room together nt
Stinky The Clown
(67,812 posts)5. Ah . . . just a childish little man acting out
msongs
(67,421 posts)7. maybe his wheelchair is like a stagecoach and he is riding shotgun. hmm nt
Paladin
(28,267 posts)11. Or maybe he's just a piece of filth. (nt)
Marcuse
(7,495 posts)3. I thought Capitol terrorists were being searched after 1/6.
Marcuse
(7,495 posts)4. Ah...he was probably at home.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,099 posts)6. Making up for his non functioning penis
pwb
(11,280 posts)8. They jerk off with their guns?
Some people are saying.
Poiuyt
(18,129 posts)10. There's something terribly Freudian about this
mahina
(17,681 posts)9. He can't give anyone the dignity they deserve
Because he is an ignorant, foolish, selfish little shitweasel.
Emile
(22,827 posts)12. I wonder if he has covid dick and cleaning his gun makes him feel like a man again!
gristy
(10,667 posts)13. Yikes.
If someone was to do this in a zoom call where I work, I imagine they would not be working there for much longer.
Clearly an intimidation tactic.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,990 posts)14. Maybe
he'll shoot himself while doing that. He's just dumb enough not to check whether the damn thing is loaded before he cleans it. My great-grandfather supposedly did that, but I think he intentionally committed suicide. (He had reasons to.)
Vinca
(50,299 posts)15. Shame he didn't have an on camera "accident."