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Unearthed: Madison Cawthorn called into the Charlie Kirk show during the January 6th attack and said he used his wheelchair to transport multiple weapons ahead of the Capitol riot and armed those around him.
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7:25 AM · Mar 14, 2022
C_U_L8R
(44,990 posts)How did he know and who was he working with?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)onecaliberal
(32,780 posts)ancianita
(35,933 posts)Firestorm49
(4,030 posts)Celerity
(43,118 posts)WA-03 Democrat
(3,037 posts)Admitted to carrying weapons in Congress before an armed insurrection and issuing them out to everyone. Where was he when he made that call?
Its like a Scooby Doo show plot- young man Crawford brought all the guns in under his wheel chair and evaded screening due to his disability.
I just this makes the January 6th Committee the Magical Mystery Van. Go Scooby!
woodsprite
(11,905 posts)PatSeg
(47,280 posts)Plus he is actually stupid enough to admit it publicly!
Bucky
(53,947 posts)"... I wasn't such a chatty dumbass"
Mr. Evil
(2,825 posts)soon to be, "Those Meddling Kids!"
sop
(10,104 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,697 posts)Jetheels
(991 posts)Where in the world is democracy hiding?
groundloop
(11,514 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)We got to stop all ogliarches,take thier money and stuff away and use it to help people and close the income gap these piggy ogliarches made that threaten democracy everywhere including here.
We have to get rid of them and the dictator wannabe's the ogliarch pigs fund.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,422 posts)As are all the MF45 criminals.
But we must be patient. I's and T's.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Statute of limitations has been reached and is in the rearview mirror on some of his earliest Russian-interference-in-our-elections crimes, with no investigation or prosecution by the Department of Justice.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)LonePirate
(13,408 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Did the Russians put the Republicans up to this evil shit? Or did they cook up cock up on their own?
blm
(113,013 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Can't blame her.
Hekate
(90,561 posts)maxrandb
(15,297 posts)They were recalled. Somewhere there is a picture of Putin in a codpiece with a Mission Accomplished banner in the background.
spanone
(135,795 posts)goddamn these republicons
ancianita
(35,933 posts)are the timely enforcement mechanisms.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)dweller
(23,613 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 14, 2022, 06:45 PM - Edit history (1)
Its go time !
I saw this tweet last year, but its been scrubbed since
surely someone has a screenshot
Edit: I was wrong, its still there, and it was 7am
https://mobile.twitter.com/cawthornfornc/status/1346790288329740288
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Nevilledog
(51,022 posts)blogslug
(37,984 posts)I'd like proof he brought weapons and "armed those around him". Seems to me if he had done that, there would be congresspeople and/or staff thanking him for giving them pew-pew bang-bangs.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)He could do good for other disable people, but no, he had to do pretend tough guy instead.
Major cringe.
Nevilledog
(51,022 posts)leftieNanner
(15,067 posts)Except he would wear that as a badge of honor.
Mr. Evil
(2,825 posts)Nevilledog
(51,022 posts)zuul
(14,624 posts)Nevilledog
(51,022 posts)He hasn't blocked me yet. He probably lives it.
Mr. Evil
(2,825 posts)It sure works!
hadEnuf
(2,177 posts)AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)newdayneeded
(1,954 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,379 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,075 posts)Not that I wouldn't put it past him to do what he's claiming, but I also wouldn't put it past him to lie about doing something like that in order to burnish his manly-man cred among the Cult and/or attention-seeking "own the libs" political theater.
uponit7771
(90,304 posts)dchill
(38,447 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,675 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,059 posts)Bucky
(53,947 posts)KS Toronado
(17,155 posts)druidity33
(6,445 posts)dependent on age and word usage.
packman
(16,296 posts)Crippled more in his mind than his body
BonnieJW
(2,258 posts)that during Hitler's regime, he would have immediately been exterminated as a person with a disability.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Katie S. Phang @KatiePhang
Hmm...how did Madison Cawthorn know that there would be the need for weapons on January 6?
Link to tweet
bucolic_frolic
(43,059 posts)Don't know if the statues fit, but moving contraband into restricted areas seems close enough to me to warrant a reading of the criminal code.
llashram
(6,265 posts)if a Black Caucus member had admitted something like this traitor, he/she would have been in jail NOW!!! Yet here is a white, yes disabled(no sympathy here) traitor to his country openly, brazenly admitting to sedition and nothing so far.
Does Cawthorn want arrest believing he could be the sacrifice that causes the RW traitors to rise up throughout the land to FREE HIM?
IF he's arrested, we'll see, won't we? I understand that like Ukraine one small misstep could lead to a wider conflagration, yet I am beginning to wonder why the slo-mo. Yet I am still choosing to just trust my Party and leaders to have our American democracy and future in mind understanding the stakes.
wnylib
(21,342 posts)fascist party connections.
Bring down the whole damned gang of them.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)What he actually says in the video is different from what is in the tweet.
He didn't say that he carried multiple weapons or that he gave any weapons to anyone.
He is being interviewed in the secure location where the Congress members waited for the occupiers to leave the building and he says that he is armed (as he is allowed to be), that his wheelchair is capable of carrying multiple weapons, and that people around him are also armed.
The "people around me" at that time consisted of other Congress members and Capitol Police.
The tweet is misinformation, designed to generate reaction and clicks.
llashram
(6,265 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)"According to a 1967 regulation, members of Congress are exempt from a federal law banning firearms on the Capitol grounds, though it still bars weapons from being carried on the House floor.
"The Huffington Post earlier this week reported that a spokesperson for Cawthorn confirmed he had a gun with him on the day of the attack.
"Metal detectors have now been installed outside the House chambers, to the consternation of some GOP lawmakers who have been walking around them to reach the floor. "
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/534142-madison-cawthorn-confirms-he-was-armed-during-capitol-riot
I suspect the gun-humping rube Congressman commonly carried gunz into Capitol, and everywhere else.
wnylib
(21,342 posts)for arming insurrectionists to attack the Capitol building, try to overthrow an election, and attack, capture, and kill members of Congress.
Just a hunch.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)He says he's "able to carry multiple weapons" and he says, while staying at a secure location with other Congress members and security that "people around me are armed."
Cawthorn is an asshole, but why the need to make things up?
wnylib
(21,342 posts)That's where I read it, Your Effeteness.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Because the tweet is not correct.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)our misinformation is for a worthy purpose.
llashram
(6,265 posts)are "multiple weapons". That's not just his personal weapon, right?
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)evolves
(5,399 posts)out of Congress NOW!
Traildogbob
(8,680 posts)Ass holery to make ya want to beat the fuck out of a guy in a wheel chair. So many disabled veterans that lost limbs fighting for Democracy. Yet his self inflicted limb lose gives him the ego to destroy the very democracy those vets lost limbs and died for. Confiscate his fucking wheel chair, sit his sick ass in a 10 acre concave hole in the ground and take away his SSDI. Throw some occasional kale and tofu down there, lib food. We are not hateful animals here. Fuck this prick to hell. God damn the 11th district in NC. Meadows and this ass. We are loaded with vets here. He won over a life long decorated veteran, Moe Davis in special election to replace Meadows, yea that treasonous insurrection enemy of the state.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,560 posts)5-10 years.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,371 posts)Hekate
(90,561 posts)calimary
(81,125 posts)An accessory to murder.
littlemissmartypants
(22,590 posts)Cawthorn appeared to have a knife on him while leading an outdoor protest at the Johnston County school systems headquarters on Tuesday.
Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article254255723.html#storylink=cpy
On Monday, Cawthorn, R-N.C., spoke to the school board in Henderson County. The next day, one of his political opponents released a photo that appears to show that he had a knife in a sheath attached to the bottom of his wheelchair. And a group opposing Cawthorns reelection to Congress reported him to local law enforcement.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/rep-madison-cawthorn-accused-of-having-knife-at-nc-school-board-meeting-about-masks/ar-AAOu3vJ
IcyPeas
(21,841 posts)https://www.salon.com/2021/07/31/madison-cawthorn-admits-he-erroneously-tried-to-bring-gun-onto-plane_partner/
momta
(4,078 posts)Is a society who would rather kill you than listen to any opinion of yours that they disagree with.
Idiot.
murielm99
(30,717 posts)who smuggled a smart phone into a House sit-in for gun control. She hid the phone in the top of one of her leg prosthetics.
Go Tammy!
Hekate
(90,561 posts)Cha
(296,853 posts)Busted!
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)I want some justice NOW!
Blue Owl
(50,271 posts)dlk
(11,514 posts)He is a threat to the safety of others
PatrickforB
(14,559 posts)taken into custody, I wonder?
hippywife
(22,767 posts)Most definitely no fan of Cawthorn, but:
Link to tweet
niyad
(113,074 posts)Does he mean other Congressional members? The question to be asked then is "how did he, a brand new member" know such would be needed? If he was going to help arm the insurrectionists, he is a traitor.
Having seen his self-inflicted wheel chair, one wonders how many weapons of any kind he could have smuggled in. That thing is pretty basic, pretty open. I know people with big, powerful chairs, and even they could not smuggle in very much.
Braggart. Liar. Traitor.
Rhiannon12866
(204,779 posts)DFW
(54,302 posts)What, specifically, was his weapon? A rubber band and a paper clip?
jmowreader
(50,529 posts)DFW
(54,302 posts)What does he do with them all, then? Try to outdraw the guy in the mirror?
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Cawthorn joneses for "action." In an instagram post, he said we should all be armed, and we should all be our own first responders.
He lives in fear. The second amendment "defends his right to exist," in the event he's jumped by roving hoards of armed... Others? Worth a listen to measure his delusion.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrhC-7jx-m/
He wants to shoot people, and speaks of election losses for GZP leading to bloodshed, and his having to take up arms against fellow Americans.
Marthe48
(16,904 posts)than a wheelchair.
Does MC Turd even have a disability? Aside from being a complete traitorous bastard?
Rabrrrrrr
(58,347 posts)Fucking traitorous shit.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)It's amazing that people did not listen to the actual quote.
It is an interview conducted during the Jan. 6 insurrection as Cawthorn is in a secure location with other Congress members. He states that he is armed (as he was allowed to be). He also says that his wheelchair is capable of carrying multiple weapons, but does not say that it was doing so that day; and he also says that people around him are armed. He does not say he armed those people, who are presumably the people guarding the Congress members at his location.
Cawthorn's a dick, but I don't see the point in being dishonest about what he actually says and does not say in the video.