Madison Cawthorn

North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn acknowledged the video was real, saying he was "being crass" with a friend and trying to be funny.

Overpaying a staff member hardly seems like Rep. Madison Cawthorn's biggest scandal these days, but a Daily Beast investigation into Cawthorn's compensation for ...

Libowitz argued that because the rules are pegged to the full calendar year, the previous campaign payments would be retroactively included when Harp tripped the senior staff scale. And because he appears to have qualified as senior staff at the last minute, Harp’s 2021 salary would also require him to file a disclosure report this year accounting for his 2021 finances. Not that this particularly helps him: Cawthorn’s campaign paid Harp’s LLC over $22,865 in the final quarter of 2021.” “After looking over Cawthorn’s filings, it appears they were trying to keep Harp just under the senior staff level to pay him well above what he’s allowed to make from the campaign, but may not have been able to successfully pull off the scheme,” Libowitz said. For one, it confirms that staff believed Harp wasn’t subject to the outside income limitations. That company has also received tens of thousands of dollars from a PAC belonging to Harp’s mom. Subscribe to the Pay Dirt newsletter here for exclusive reporting every Thursday. And that’s where they slipped up, paying Harp at a senior rate in the last quarter of 2021. “Mr. Harp’s congressional salary is below the House’s threshold for the outside limitations to be applied,” Ball said. The office’s congressional expense reports show that Harp made about $1,500 less than the annual threshold that would qualify him as senior staff. House ethics rules stipulate that senior congressional staff can only earn $29,595 in outside income each year. Congressional pay data shows that North Carolina Republican paid his chief of staff, Blake Harp, $131,278 in 2021.

After the video appeared on social media, Cawthorn tweeted, “A new hit against me just dropped. Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, ...

In March, Cawthorn sparked an uproar after claiming on a podcast that people in Washington have invited him to participate in orgies and used cocaine in front of him. The freshman Republican has angered and annoyed a number of his colleagues with a string of antics. “He’s got to turn himself around,” McCarthy told reporters at the time. Late last month, Cawthorn was cited for bringing a loaded handgun through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Charlotte airport. Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign.

Yet another video that apparently depicts embattled Western North Carolina Republican congressman Madison Cawthorn in a compromising situation has sur...

“Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. We do know Rep. Cawthorn shouldn't be in Congress regardless of when this video was taken. This video was passed to us by a former supporter and big donor of Rep. Cawthorn that wishes to remain anonymous. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. “A new hit against me just dropped.” Cawthorn wrote. The other person is only seen for a moment, and has not yet been identified.

While Cawthorn has certainly become a lightning rod for controversy, he is far from the only lawmaker to come under scrutiny for questionable acts and ...

Instead of focusing on the issues that a candidate may stand for, it is increasingly about finding the worst thing he or she has done and sharing that to the masses. Yet, this is the age we live in, and I don't know if there is an answer to curb this." Social media is so instantaneous that it can make it challenging for us to maintain our freedom when disinformation can spread so quickly." "We should be concerned that anyone can so easily manipulate the message," warned Haynes. "Once a story is out there, it is impossible to contain. They live and die by the social media sword." On Wednesday, an opposition group that is now actively campaigning against freshman Congressman Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina released a video that showed the Republican lawmaker naked in bed and thrusting his groin at another person's head.

Cawthorn in a tweet called the video "blackmail" and said it showed him "being crass with a friend" years ago.

Cawthorn also lashed out Politico last month after the outlet published photos of him posing in lingerie at a party. It marked the second time Cawthorn was caught bringing a gun to an airport. But Cawthorn's distractions have spurred criticism from within his own party — especially after he claimed in a March podcast interview to have knowledge of lawmakers doing drugs and inviting him to orgies. The video, details of which have not been independently verified by CNBC, was released less than two weeks before the Republican primary election in Cawthorn's district. "I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. "I'm NOT backing down," Cawthorn's tweet said.

The North Carolina representative responded to a lewd video posted by an opposition group that appears to show Cawthorn naked and thrusting near another ...

In March, he said he had been invited to an “orgy” by fellow representatives, a claim that was widely disputed by his colleagues. “A new hit against me just dropped,” Cawthorn tweeted in response, seeming to confirm that the video does indeed show him. Wednesday night, a video of Madison Cawthorn began circulating on social media that appeared to show the North Carolina representative naked and making a thrusting motion in a man’s face.

The primary voting will happen on May 17, and the early voting is underway right now. The 26-year-old has run into his latest controversy with the video.

He has been receiving many complaints and wants Cawthorn to get in line. Cawthorn has reportedly annoyed and angered a lot of his colleagues due to his antics. Cawthorn was not charged for this incident as a spokesperson stated that he brought the gun by mistake. He has been receiving many complaints and wants Cawthorn to get in line. Cawthorn has reportedly annoyed and angered a lot of his colleagues due to his antics. Cawthorn was not charged for this incident as a spokesperson stated that he brought the gun by mistake.

Republican primary voters in North Carolina will head to the polls on May 17. A GOP strategist told DailyMail.com Cawthorn 'has a tough primary, ...

'So when you see a member of Congress say things like this, the one thing I want you to know, they are outliers in the largest sense possible on our side.' 'Later I was down in Miami for work, and he texted me and said "Hey would you like to come compete in a Crossfit competition?" A female passenger gets out of the car to switch seats with Cawthorn, whose license was taken. Cawthorn has previously stated that he's an owner of the currency. He was not charged with a crime. But I just can't have that same mentality when I'm back home on I-26 here in town.' One payment made by Cawthorn to Smith and dated June 17, 2018, reads, 'Getting naked for me in Sweden' The clip features a seemingly naked Cawthorn shrieking and grunting as he thrusts against an unknown man's face. June 2018 Venmo payments between them include captions like 'Getting naked for me in Sweden' and 'The quickie at the airport.' Smith being a distant cousin of Cawthorn's, however, means he can be on the Republican's Congressional staff without running afoul of nepotism laws that explicitly ban federal lawmakers from hiring 11 specific types of relatives. Cawthorn does still enjoy a double-digit lead over his top rival, North Carolina state Senator Chuck Edwards, according to recent polling. She also said he closed all of his district offices but one.