Twitter batters insurrection supporter Madison Cawthorn for calling Vladimir Zelenskyy a 'thug'

Twitter batters insurrection supporter Madison Cawthorn for calling Vladimir Zelenskyy a 'thug'
David Badash
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 The New Civil Rights Movement
March 11, 2022

U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn continues to follow the same playbook as what some are calling the “Sedition Caucus,” far-right congressional Republicans who at times seem more aligned with extremists and Vladimir Putin than mainstream America or even the GOP.

The freshman North Carolina GOP congressman was caught on tape declaring over the weekend that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a hero to his own people and much of the world, is a “thug.”

“Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug,” Cawthorn says in video obtained and published by WRAL. “Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”

Republican strategist and Bush 43 Senior Advisor Karl Rove was the first to attack Cawthorn, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday.

Here’s WRAL’s clip:

Rove was far from the last.






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