New, troubling questions about Madison Cawthorn and Jan. 6
Followers of former President Donald Trump have found one conspiracy theory they don’t like: That some Republican members of Congress may have had deeper roles in plans and events that led to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
One reason they don’t like it is that — unlike the bizarre theories of QAnon, the baseless notions of rampant voter fraud and suspicions about COVID vaccines — the concern that members of Congress may have had a hand in efforts to overturn the election appears to be backed by evidence.
Rolling Stone reported on Sunday that two organizers of the Jan. 6 protests have told congressional investigators that “multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent.”
Rolling Stone said the organizers, speaking anonymously, named seven Republican members of Congress who joined, either directly or through their staffers, in the effort to overturn the election. Republican North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn was among those named.
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U.S. Representative Mark Meadows nominated Cawthorn to the United States Naval Academy in 2014, but his application was rejected before his 2014 car accident; Cawthorn had claimed during his congressional campaign in advertisements that the accident "derailed" his plans to attend the Academy.[9][13][14][15] Cawthorn subsequently said that at the time of the injury, he knew only that he had been nominated to the Academy and that he had expected to be accepted, and added that he never said that he had been accepted before the accident took place, but could have applied again later.[16][17] But in a lawsuit deposition, Cawthorn admitted that he had been rejected before the accident.[8]
During the fall 2016 semester, Cawthorn attended Patrick Henry College, studying political science, but earned mostly D grades and dropped out. He said his grades were low primarily because his injuries had interfered with his ability to learn.[9] Cawthorn said in a deposition, "You know, suffering from a brain injury after the accident definitely I think it slowed my brain down a little bit. Made me less intelligent. And the pain also made reading and studying very difficult."[18] He also said he withdrew due to "heartbreak" after his fiancée broke up with him.[15][19]
From January 2015 to August 2016, Cawthorn worked as a staff assistant in Representative Mark Meadows's district office.[20] He told the Asheville Citizen-Times he worked there "full-time", but it was a part-time role.[8]
Cawthorn is the owner of SPQR Holdings, LLC, a real estate investment firm in Hendersonville. The firm was started in August 2019 and reported no income; Cawthorn is its sole employee.[9] The initialism SPQR was commonly used as a symbol of the Roman Empire and stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus ("The Roman Senate and People"
. SPQR "has been embraced by skinhead gangs in Italy and by some white nationalists in the United States",[21] but the Anti-Defamation League does not include SPQR in its hate symbol database, and the organization's Mark Pitcavage has said it is used "just as much or more often by nonextremists than extremists".[22] Cawthorn has said he used the initials for his company name merely because it is "a term for Rome" and that "SPQR is a warning to my generation from the ages against tyranny and authoritarianism."[21]
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