Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was caught denying his trip to visit Adolf Hitler’s vacation home in Germany during a trip in 2017 that he documented on his Instagram.
When asked about the trip in a Twitter video released on Thursday, Cawthorn denied visiting, claiming he was at a different site.
The video shows Cawthorn standing next to Noah Mitchell, a Washington D.C. student who often tweets videos of politicians, near the U.S. Capitol building. Cawthorn smiles toward the camera and looks to Mitchell as he begins to ask about the trip.
“Did you go to Hitler’s house?” Mitchell asks again.
“Nope didn’t go there,” Cawthorn says, moving away from the camera in his wheelchair.
“What was that Instagram post, then?” Mitchell asked.
“That, I believe was the retreat,” Cawthorn said.
“The retreat? OK,” Mitchell says while looking at the camera and laughing.
Madison Cawthorn wouldn’t tell me about his trip to Hitler’s house. He denies it… pic.twitter.com/rP7ifI3lXK — Noah 🗳 (@noahmitchell0) April 22, 2021
In an Instagram post from 2017, which Mitchell included in the Twitter thread, Cawthorn shared three photos and tagged the Eagle’s Nest, Hitler’s Bavarian mountain home exclusively used by Nazi leaders.
“The vacation house of the Führer. Seeing the Eagles Nest has been on my bucket list for awhile, it did not disappoint,” Cawthorn wrote in the Instagram caption. “Strange to hear so many laughs and share such a good time with my brother where only 79 years ago a supreme evil shared laughs and good times with his compatriots.”
The tweet Mitchell shared of Cawthorn’s since-deleted Instagram post has over 22,300 likes and 3,800 retweets on Twitter.
“‘Vacation house’ / ‘retreat’, same thing,” one user wrote.
Others found the original Instagram caption offensive since Cawthorn’s word choice seemed to imply a fondness for Hitler and that the vacation house was a bucket list trip.
“Ask Mr. Fun Drivers why he referred to Hitler as ‘the Fuhrer’; a term the Nazis used to show respect and endearment to that genocidal raving-lunatic,” another user tweeted.
Although the picture was mentioned in the news prior to Cawthorn’s appointment into Congress, it’s still leaving Twitter users wondering why the representative posted it in the first place.
“He does know Hitler would have had him executed because he’s disabled right?? He has to know that,” one user commented.
FyuckerFjord on April 23rd, 2021 at 20:09 UTC »
Other stuff he lied about: Training for Paralympics, running a successful real estate business, his military career being cut short by his accident (he was rejected from the Naval Academy before he was in a wheelchair), being a Nazi, etc.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/madison-cawthorn-paralympics/
vinniepdoa on April 23rd, 2021 at 19:59 UTC »
Madison Cawthorn is such a sleazebag. But it doesn't even matter how much he lies, because where he comes from the old rural folks think he's just being "a nice boy", a good ol' salt of the earth God Fearing so and so, so they'll just vote for him no matter what. They'd vote for Satan himself if he had an R by his name. (And I say that as someone who grew up there.)
ParadeSit on April 23rd, 2021 at 19:43 UTC »
A lying Republican? It must be a day that ends in “y.”