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Mark Meadows performed life-changing favors for Madison Cawthorn, then turned on him. Why?
Mark Meadows performed life-changing favors for Madison Cawthorn, then turned on him. Why?
Former North Carolina congressman and younger man who replaced him have a long history. Somehow it went south
By ROGER SOLLENBERGER
JANUARY 28, 2021 11:00AM
(Salon) Last November, North Carolina Republican Madison Cawthorn became the youngest person elected to Congress in modern history, at age 24. He was homeschooled through high school, and does not hold a college degree. According to his own claims in a sworn deposition, his work experience as recently as two years before his congressional run was limited to a job at Chick-fil-A, along with a part-time gig in a district office of former Rep. Mark Meadows. He later supplemented that by creating a real estate entity that shares its name with a slogan often embraced by white nationalists.
Cawthorn claims the slogan is simply "a term for Rome."
Yet in the 2020 Republican primary for the seat that Meadows vacated when he resigned from Congress to become Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, Cawthorn beat out Meadows' handpicked successor, as well as a former top aide and old political hand. But perhaps even stranger, in a sense Cawthorn had to beat Meadows himself: The onetime leader of the House Freedom Caucus veteran went so far as to throw campaign funds and taxpayer resources perhaps unlawfully into an effort to defeat the young man who, by all appearances, just a couple of years prior had been his protégé.
Cawthorn's relationship with Mark Meadows and the Meadows family has shaped some of the most formative moments of the young conservative's life, including the 2014 car accident that left him partially paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Indeed, in the four years between 2013 and 2017, Meadows recommended Cawthorn for the U.S. Naval Academy; had his son, Blake Meadows, find a Florida attorney to handle Cawthorn's insurance case; hired Cawthorn in his congressional office; and apparently played a role in helping Cawthorn gain admission to Patrick Henry College, which he attended for just one semester, before dropping out with a self-reported D average. .............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/28/mark-meadows-performed-life-changing-favors-for-madison-cawthorn-then-turned-on-him-why/
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Mark Meadows performed life-changing favors for Madison Cawthorn, then turned on him. Why? (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2021
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Far right social relationships?
magicarpet
(13,941 posts)2. Is Cawthorn a too in your face Fascist, where as Meadows,...
.... would rather be a behind your back and nondescript Nazi ?
blm
(112,920 posts)6. Quite likely
dawg day
(7,947 posts)3. Cawthorn's father was Meadows's financial advisor?
Meadows, who entered federal office in 2013 among the 20 wealthiest members of Congress, has reported a plummeting net worth, from approximately $7 million in 2011 to approximately $666,000 in 2018, according to OpenSecrets financial data.
He lost 80% of his net worth during the hottest stock market in history, with Cawthorn Dad as his investment advisor?
Young Cawthorn seems to have inherited his father's savvy certainly.
He lost 80% of his net worth during the hottest stock market in history, with Cawthorn Dad as his investment advisor?
Young Cawthorn seems to have inherited his father's savvy certainly.
BComplex
(7,982 posts)4. Read the article. Explains why he's a sexual predator.
This Cawthorn kid is batshit crazy.
mercuryblues
(14,491 posts)7. That was my 1st thought
Does Meadows have a young granddaughter?
BComplex
(7,982 posts)8. I'm thinking Meadows dropped him because he lost so much of his wealth while Cawthorn's dad
was managing his $$. Meadows' wealth dropped significantly under Roger Cawthorn's management.
blm
(112,920 posts)5. Everything around Cawthorn is sketchy and creepy.
Hes definitely a grifter in the Trump mode.