Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn promoted false claims about the 2020 election and warned of "bloodshed" if election fraud were to occur in the future. NBC's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports from Capitol Hill.
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Rep. Madison Cawthorn Warns Of 'Bloodshed' If Election Fraud Occurs
This is all fear and anger to slop the hawgs to grease up their wallets
@acobster welllll we can’t just let everyone in on the action… and by powerful who do you mean exactly? Billionaires? Are you a sanders supporter? You hate wealthy Americans who did what we had to do to climb that ladder to add a bunch of zeros behind the ones in our bank account?
@Dino Go eat your sheep medicine
@Jeff Cook Its funny you, much like the nazi party, deem your enemy or opposition to that of an animal. Ill hail to that i guess.
Great analogy!
Here Maddy admits on live tv that he isn’t aware of any election fraud & only objected on Jan 6 over drop boxes in Madison, WI
daily reminder: trump incited an armed insurrection on january 6 2021 to overthrow a democratic election
@stdesy Very good. I tried to make a similar argument when some troll called Auntie Pha said that Trump said covid is a hoax. When in fact what Trump said is that the Democrat’s COVERAGE of covid was a hoax, not the virus itself. You couldn’t believe the names I got called. So don’t pretend like you libs give a crap about truthful quotes. I seriously doubt you go around correcting misquotes that serve your narrative, lib
@Winston Smith How is being obviously wrong about George Floyd being sober “hate speech”? Who is being hated in that? Its like if I said “Winston Smith is a very intelligent person.” That would be terribly incorrect but certainly not hate speech.
@Winston Smith How can COVERAGE be a hoax? If people talking about the virus existing and how many people have been infected is a hoax, how does that not imply that what they are talking about is fake? As for the truthful quote thing, yes I do correct liberal people who make up stuff. They don’t need to do that; the truth is ALREADY on their side. Making anything up for effect just undermines that fact.
@stdesy Funny, I’ve never seen you do it. Because if you did correct leftist misinformation, these people would tear you apart. You are a coward. You’re afraid of them. You know it and I know it.
@kkarx source? Link?
It always pure BS when some politicians’ PR person has to claim “oh, he/she didn’t really mean it that way. You’re talking it out of context.”
kinda like when Pelosi shrugged off antifa riots as people are going to do what they do.
You are right, they said that about Trump when in plain site and over the airways he was giving orders to his terrorist friends. Jan 6 and a terrorist GOP is the result.
@WECAN DOIT on January 6th he quite literally told people to go home peacefully
Yeah it’s annoying how they get away with it. Iwish reporters would repond with “Would you put it in its proper context for us?” But they’ll weasel out of somehow.
@fsck yeah from what I’ve seen I ask people for proof of trump promoting January 6th and I never get anything I just get called stupid 🤣
Threatening bloodshed should be grounds for immediate dismissal from any political office.
@Paul Wilson he threatened bloodshed if he didn’t get his way.
Paul see no evil hear no evil
Why is Trump still walking free?
MAGAtts use weasel words and phrasing so they can plausibly backtrack.
@skrapyard444 no he didnt… open your ears and listen again
He talks pretty tough, for a cripple. How much bloodshed can a cripple like him, engage in? He would either have to be carried in, or wheeled in. Or both, since he confined to a wheelchair and, can’t walk.
“Only leads to one place… bloodshed!…… Metaphorically speaking…. You know that old saying … “ 🤔🤥
“Bloodshed”
Easy to say.
Easier to create, especially if you are an elected official.
Hard to endure if the blood is yours or the blood of a member of your family.
Mr. Cawthorn.
Grow up.
Become an American, and not whatever you think you are making yourself into.
My compassion for you and your disability ended when you started using it as a means to spout insanity.
For craving a Revolution so badly, they sure did tuck tail & run after Ashli Blabbit was shot.
How about fraudulent election audits? Will there be bloodshed over them too?
@Total Control wow, I’ve never heard such a compelling case on the matter. Good job buddy, way to go…👍
@DadyNightOwl yes the matter in which the investigation was started. The methods used also.
@Elaine Leithiser Then you should’ve collected that $1 MILLION reward offered by TX Lt Gov Patrick for evidence of election fraud! So, why would such a large reward be offered for evidence that was supposedly everywhere & obvious? Why didn’t anyone collect? Oh, I know why! Patrick stipulated (reneged) that it had to show fraud that helped Biden AFTER evidence of fraud that helped rump was submitted by PA Lt Gov Fetterman (@ that time, more since, 2 people were INDICTED for voting for fat clown twice). Just think, if you’re right you lost $1 mill & could’ve prevented the insurrection & helped install a dictator – IF you were right and every sane person in the US knows you aren’t. Toodles ✌️
Here Maddy admits on live tv that he isn’t aware of any election fraud & only objected on Jan 6 over drop boxes in Madison, WI
There SHOULD, but there won’t. The swamp controls DC.
You would think since he’s sitting in a wheel chair he wouldn’t be talking that kind of c-rap.
Thats a threat n shouldn’t be taken lightly. If i were a house rep or in the Senate id have him arrested on the spot.
His own parents have condemned his past actions and stated he had lied about the circumstances that led to his accident. They have state he openly abused his condition to promote himself.
Just like Abbott
This spoiled rotten kid should never been elected into government!
Provide documentation
not made by liberal sources.
@BAKED MOMENTS w/Johnny Green This fool is chock full of scandals. “Fun drives,” Paralympics, Naval Academy & that’s just off the top of my head.
Here Maddy admits on live tv that he isn’t aware of any election fraud & only objected on Jan 6 over drop boxes in Madison, WI
Just disgusted with all of them, I’m more proud of the dump i had this morning.
Man, I’ve never been threatened by a cripple before. Don’t know if I should laugh or feel like Forest Gump.
It’s hard to be intimidated by one who is thwarted by stairs………
Sounds like a couple of school yard bullies in an echo chamber.
@Mike Kesselring Here Maddy admits on live tv that he isn’t aware of any election fraud & only objected on Jan 6 over drop boxes in Madison, WI
@Mike Kesselring Sorta like rump making fun of a disabled reporter?
The sad part we know that him in that wheelchair won’t be on the front lines he’ll be inside shining his wheelchair wheels
If he wants to see blood, show him his own
Speaking of election fraud, what do these words mean to you?
“Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R congressmen”
Meh…we all now know that Trump can say or do anything, and get completely away with it. Wake me up if they ever hold him accountable for anything. zzzZZZZ…
Here Maddy admits on live tv that he isn’t aware of any election fraud & only objected on Jan 6 over drop boxes in Madison, WI
My heart goes out to any young person who finds themselves in his situation at the age when life is just starting. However this guy lives in a fantasy world now. Everything that i see or hear about him seems as though hes trying to compensate for his circumstance. His words are dangerous and carry consequence but i see him as just a pathetic soul at this point in his life.
Everyone needs to look at the Electoral College system and how it works. The popular vote should decide who wins, it’s called Democracy.
@LordZontar it’s funny when these states voted democrat it was okay now that they are leaning towards republican, omg get rid of it! Lmfao! Why when these states leaned left it was all okay?
@J C No J.C. It’s when states where more people than livestock live started voting Democratic then Republicans started worrying about small states at all. And I doubt you’ve done any more “research” than to listen to Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump or Alex Jones telling you what to think, so don’t try coming at me with that “do the research” crap.
No it’s not. It’s called tyranny. You won’t be for majority rule when the left loses.
@Mike Kesselring No, it’s minority rule that’s called “tyranny”, which is what the right is aiming for.
Here Maddy admits on live tv that he isn’t aware of any election fraud & only objected on Jan 6 over drop boxes in Madison, WI
Get him out of our government now!
He is an insurrectionist.
Cawthorn needs to do like grandma used to say.
“GO SOMEWHERE AND SIT DOWN”