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Electorally, come Tuesday, he could still win. On Friday, at a meet-and-greet at a gun store in Cherokee County, a supporter positioned his pickup truck to block the view of a photographer from POLITICO. (Cawthorn also said, "I was declared dead on the scene," though the accident report said he was incapacitated.). August 12, 2020 The Asheville, North Carolina, news outlet AVL Watchdog reports that Cawthorn said in a 2017 deposition he was rejected from the Naval Academy before a 2014 car crash left him . Cawthorn, now 25, exploited his tale of his crash at age 18 for his successful 2020 House campaign. In fact he has claimed that the wheelchair itself became a source of inspiration to him. Who is Madison Cawthorn, the freshman congressman causing - CNN Now, a new report from the Washington Post raises questions about the veracity of a number of claims Cawthorn has made about the car crash that rendered him paralyzed and in need of the use of a wheelchair. Stayed probably 20 minutes, he told me, and then rolled on out of there.. The vehicle. But the news outlet AVL Watchdog reported in August that Cawthorn had been rejected by the Naval Academy before the crash. I think the press should be allowed to stay, he said, so people can hear what we have to say. "This is a time of great adversity for our country, and I know something about adversity," Cawthorn, who uses a wheelchair, said at last year's Republican National Convention. My friends, he said, I want you to chant with me so loud that the cowards I serve with in Washington, D.C., can hear you. During the storming of the Capitol, he called into the radio show of right-wing talker Charlie Kirk and said he believed some of the ransacking mob were antifa and people paid by the Democratic machine.. Theres no excuse for it., I have no problem calling that out, even though a lot of those people probably wouldve voted for me, he told Cory Vaillancourt of the Smoky Mountain News. WASHINGTON Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., has been charged with driving with a revoked license and faces two pending citations for speeding. In 2020, our country has a choice. Im not planning to vote for Donald Trump or Joe Biden., And he said he didnt care for Trumps tweets. Madison Cawthorn posted a picture of him in the hospital surrounded by his medical team on July 19, 2016. Cawthorn - who was partially paralyzed in a 2014 car accident and was the owner of a real estate investment company as well as a motivational speaker prior to his time on Capitol Hill - caused. But as the Post detailed in its report this week, some of Cawthorn's life story had been exaggerated or misrepresented by himself and his campaign a pattern epitomized by his story about his wreck. The Republican - now 26 - had already faced incredible challenges in his life after he was paralyzed in a 2014 car crash. rejected by the Naval Academy before the crash. He runs to safety deep in the woods and just leaves me in a burning car as the flames start to lick my legs and curl up and burn my left side." Amanda Greene for Politico Magazine, Think about it, what hes gone through, she continued, mentioning his accident, his candidacy in 2020 that took him in a little more than eight months from a no-name who had just gotten off a cruise to a primetime speaking slot at the RNC, the dizzying year and a half hes been in Congress, his quickly broken marriage.
