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Mark Meadows performed life-changing favors for Madison Cawthorn -- and then turned on him. Why?
January 28, 2021
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 working 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."
<p>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 <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/10/30/watchdog-files-complaint-accusing-trumps-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-of-campaign-finance-crimes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">campaign funds and taxpayer resources</a> — <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/10/30/mark-meadows-apparently-used-taxpayer-funds-to-help-wifes-friend-raise-campaign-cash/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">perhaps unlawfully</a> — into an effort to defeat the young man who, by all appearances, just a couple of years prior had been his protégé.</p><p>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.</p><p>Until now, the original nature of their connection has been unclear, but it appears that Madison's father, Timothy "Roger" Cawthorn, is the Meadows family's financial adviser. The elder Cawthorn's <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-cawthorn-38312988" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> page says he has worked for two decades as an Edward Jones adviser in Hendersonville, North Carolina, where Meadows has a district office. Mark Meadows' <a href="https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2017/10024140.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">financial disclosures</a> reveal that he and his wife held pension, money market, brokerage and 401k accounts with Edward Jones.</p><p>Meadows, who entered federal office in 2013 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/richest-congress-new-freshmen-2013-1#14-mark-meadows-r-nc-14" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">among the 20 wealthiest</a> members of Congress, has reported a plummeting net worth, from approximately $7 million in 2011 to approximately $666,000 in 2018, according to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/mark-meadows/net-worth?cid=N00033631&year=2014" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenSecrets</a> financial data.</p><p>Notably, Meadows shifted more money into his Edward Jones accounts beginning in 2014, around the time he began to work closely with Madison Cawthorn. <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/mark-meadows/assets?cid=N00033631&year=2014" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">OpenSecrets</a> data indicates that Meadows parked between $100,000 and $250,000 in cash in pension accounts. His 2018 <a href="https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/ptr-pdfs/2018/20010409.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">disclosure</a> shows that Meadows appears to have converted the funds into stock purchases that year, which he also executed through Edward Jones. However, Meadows did not file a disclosure for 2019, and filed only a termination report in 2020, noting he was moving to the executive branch and would file a disclosure there. He eventually did, but never for 2019.</p><p>Asked in a phone call how long he had served as a financial adviser to the Meadows family, Roger Cawthorn told Salon, "That's personal. That's private information," and hung up.</p><p>In December 2013, Meadows <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2013/12/22/meadows-congratulates-western-nc-academy-nominees/4149643/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nominated</a> Cawthorn to the Naval Academy. Cawthorn's official campaign website says that this happened in 2014. That site also says that his "plans were derailed that year" after <a href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20180509902" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the nearly fatal car accident</a> that occurred in April 2014 as Cawthorn and his best friend were headed home from a spring break trip to Florida. In truth, as AVL Watchdog has <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/08/12/madison-cawthorns-claim-naval-academy-creates-false-impression/3350634001/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">revealed</a>, Cawthorn has testified that the Naval Academy had already denied him admission before the crash, citing academic standards.</p><p>(According to sworn depositions, Cawthorn's friend fell asleep at the wheel, at around 5 p.m., about an hour into the first leg of their drive across Florida. The friend was unhurt, but Cawthorn, who allegedly fell asleep with his feet on the dash, was nearly killed.)</p><p>The crash precipitated a convoluted series of lawsuits that are still dragging out in court to this day: At one point, Cawthorn tried to sue his best friend for $30 million. According to court records, shortly after the crash, Roger Cawthorn had a heated conversation with an insurance adjuster that for unclear reasons left him doubtful about the promise of a full $3 million settlement. The next day, the Cawthorns tapped the Meadows family to bring in extra legal firepower.</p><p>Under questioning in a 2017 <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/471486060/2017-Madison-Cawthorn-deposition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">court deposition</a>, Madison Cawthorn claimed that after that contentious call, his mother told Mark Meadows' wife Debbie the details, in hopes that the Meadows could help retain a lawyer. Mark's son, Blake, a law school student at the time, contacted Florida attorney and leading Meadows donor Dean Colson on the Cawthorns' behalf, giving him a rundown of the injuries, the parties involved and the potential jurisdictional issues. Colson accepted and a firm partner took over Madison's case.</p><p>Several months later, after the Meadows clan helped Cawthorn secure representation, Mark Meadows offered Cawthorn a job in his district office. Cawthorn <a href="https://nsjonline.com/article/2020/05/runoff-primary-in-race-to-replace-meadows-features-clash-over-endorsements-debates/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">described</a> the moment to The North State Journal, saying that at a Meadows victory party, the congressman got on his knees, at Cawthorn's eye level, and asked him to come work for him. Cawthorn told the publication that the job pulled him out of a dark place and convinced him, "I can still do this."</p><p>At the time, Meadows' office was facing personnel problems: His chief of staff, Kenny West, had been <a href="https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20181116/meadows-reprimanded-in-handling-of-kenny-west-harassment-allegations" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">accused</a> the month before of sexual harassment by multiple women. An internal investigation upheld the allegations in November, the same month Meadows offered Cawthorn the job. Meadows kept West on the team through the following spring, and paid him through August, a lapse in judgment for which Meadows was ultimately <a href="https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20181116/meadows-reprimanded-in-handling-of-kenny-west-harassment-allegations" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">cited and fined $40,000 by the House Ethics Committee</a>. The Tea Party conservative later told Congress that he had gone "back and forth, maybe longer than I should have" about cutting West loose, "wrestling with what was fair and what was not."</p><p>Cawthorn came aboard in January 2015. In the meantime, he had rejected an initial settlement offer of $3 million in the injury case, in favor of a more aggressive suit that also involved his friend, the driver at the time of the crash. Meadows kept Cawthorn on the payroll part-time for the next full year, then paid him negligible sums through August 2016. During his 2020 campaign, Cawthorn <a href="https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2020/10/12/madison-cawthorn-said-he-worked-full-time-mark-meadows-though-record-says-he-didnt/5970459002/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">falsely claimed</a> that this was a full-time job that had lasted for two years. Wayne King, who served as Meadows' deputy chief of staff at the time, did not reply to Salon's request for comment. (After a falling-out with Meadows, King himself ran unsuccessfully against Cawthorn in the jam-packed 2020 GOP primary.)</p><p>It's unclear what specific work Cawthorn did for Meadows, and unclear whether in that time he ever discussed Kenny West's behavior with Meadows or with other staffers.</p><p>One senior aides at the time, Alyssa Farah, had run communications for Meadows and the House Freedom Caucus, and went on to serve in the Pentagon and later with Meadows in the White House. Farah had studied journalism at Patrick Henry College, a small, nondenominational Christian private school in Purcellville, Virginia. She graduated in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/public-profile/in/alyssa-farah-36a07130?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2011</a>, overlapping with Mark Meadows' son, Blake. In <a href="https://www.phc.edu/news/congressman-mark-meadows-is-phcs-2018-commencement-speaker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2018</a>, Meadows himself gave the commencement address at the college.</p><p>In the fall of 2016, Cawthorn himself matriculated at Patrick Henry College. He paid his own way and bought a house in th area for cash, but dropped out after just one semester, saying his failure was caused by "heartbreak." He also said that cognitive impairment from his brain injury made academic life difficult, and that his grades were poor.</p><p>Last October, weeks before the general election, more than 150 of Cawthorn's former fellow students at Patrick Henry — roughly half the school's total student body — wrote a <a href="https://twitter.com/itsgrandmarquis/status/1319376748505686016?s=21" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">letter</a> alleging that his during his brief stint there he had engaged in "sexually predatory behavior," lied habitually and committed vandalism.</p><p>"Cawthorn's time at PHC was marked by gross misconduct toward our female peers, public misrepresentation of his past, disorderly conduct that was against the school's honor code, and self-admitted academic failings," the letter said. His former classmates described him as a "sexual predator" who often asked women to go for "joy rides" in his Dodge Challenger, during which he would drive them "to secluded areas, lock the doors, and proceed to make unwanted sexual advances."</p><p>"It is a pattern of predatory behavior," one of the authors told <a href="https://www.bpr.org/post/nc11-attack-madison-cawthorns-schoolmates-goes-viral#stream/0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blue Ridge Public Radio</a>. "People say that he's in a wheelchair and ask, how could this be? But when you're in his car with him and he locks the door, there's no escape."</p><p>Coming off his "heartbreaking" experience at Patrick Henry, Cawthorn filed another lawsuit against the auto insurance company, Auto-Owners, claiming they had acted in "bad faith" and demanding $30 million, in addition to the $3 million he had already been paid. The next year he put some of his money toward a European vacation that included <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/madison-cawthorns-visit-to-hitlers-vacation-home-alarms-his-nc-districts-jews/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a trip to Adolf Hitler's vacation home</a>, a spot that Cawthorn had said was on his "bucket list," referring to Hitler as "the fuhrer."</p><p>Somewhere around that point, Meadows' and Cawthorn's paths seemed to diverge, and Meadows apparently fell into <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/mark-meadows/net-worth?cid=N00033631&year=2014" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">increasing financial distress</a>. When they converged again, in late 2019, it was with a vengeance: Meadows announced his surprise retirement from Congress in December and threw his political clout behind Lynda Bennett, a close friend of his wife's, as his successor, in a Republican primary against both Cawthorn and former top aide Wayne King.</p><p>In a cryptic Facebook post from February 2020, Cawthorn shared <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Cawthorn2020/photos/so-thankful-for-one-of-my-closest-friends-blake-meadows-coming-all-the-way-out-t/128692292003741/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a photo of Blake Meadows</a>, Mark's son, allegedly speaking at a Cawthorn campaign event.</p><p>"So thankful for one of my closest friends, Blake Meadows, coming all the way out to the Ag Center to help with the campaign," Cawthorn wrote. "Your prayer was awesome, brother, thank you!"</p><p>Cawthorn easily beat Bennett and King, despite Meadows' increasingly <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/10/21/mark-meadows-fec-filings-raise-questions-of-unlawful-spending-campaign-coordination/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">desperate</a> and <a href="https://www.salon.com/2020/10/30/mark-meadows-apparently-used-taxpayer-funds-to-help-wifes-friend-raise-campaign-cash/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">apparently unlawful</a> support for Bennett — including an endorsement from former President Trump — then won a comfortable win in the deep red district in November.</p><p>It's unclear what relationship the two men may have today. Salon's requests for comment to Cawthorn and Mark Meadows did not receive responses. Debbie Meadows appeared to return Salon's call using a blocked number, but declined to answer questions. </p>
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People are dying because Trump had no plan for Covid shots
January 28, 2021
If you're one of the many millions of Americans who can't get a COVID vaccine, that's because Donald Trump never had a vaccination distribution plan for the country.Though COVID raged throughout Trump's last year in office, he did nothing to prepare for vaccine distribution, consider that lost time. That was just what our co-founder, David Cay Johnston, predicted three years before the pandemic began, writing that "if a virus were to hopscotch around the planet on jetliners and create a pandemic like the one that killed his grandfather in 1918, Trump would not know what to do."
Trump's criminal ineptitude and apathy crushed the vaccination effort before it could get off the ground, leaving President Joe Biden's administration with a monumental disaster.
<p>"The vaccine program was in worse shape than we anticipated," Biden said this week, suggesting he inherited a running program. Two days earlier, his chief of staff, Ron Klain, said <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-klain/trump-administration-had-no-coronavirus-vaccine-distribution-plan-white-house-idUSKBN29T0FY" target="_blank">Trump left no vaccine distribution plan</a>.</p><blockquote>Because Trump did nothing COVID has killed more Americans in less than a year than all the Americans killed in World War II combat.<br/></blockquote><p>"The process to distribute the vaccine, particularly outside of nursing homes and hospitals to the community, did not really exist when we came into the White House," Klain said on NBC's "Meet the Press."</p><p>Biden's team has hit the ground sprinting as it works to set up vaccination centers in stadiums and gymnasiums and deploy thousands of clinical staff from military medical personnel and federal agencies to administer the shots.</p><p>Among the executive orders signed in Biden's first days of his presidency were some addressing vaccine distribution. As Biden shared his plan to purchase additional vaccine doses from Pfizer and Moderna to be delivered this summer, bringing the total to 600 million doses purchased, he urged patience as his administration grapples with inoculating a nation against a pandemic.</p><p>"This is a wartime undertaking," Biden said. "It's not hyperbole."</p><p>Vaccinating a country of almost 330 million people takes careful planning and execution. And that goes way beyond just trying to secure enough of the vaccine – which Trump and his team royally screwed up when they <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/trump-covid-vaccine-pfizer.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rejected Pfizer's offer to purchase millions of additional doses</a> last fall.</p><p>In addition to the actual medication, there must be a plan in place for securing all the additional supplies necessary to administer the vaccine, from syringes and needles to alcohol swabs.</p><p>There also must be a plan to ensure that the vaccine gets administered by trained healthcare personnel, which surely means providing training for additional personnel for an effort of this scale.</p><p>On top of that, there must be meticulous records on the city, state, and federal levels noting who got which vaccine and when to ensure people receive the two-shots currently required for inoculation. In Phoenix, some residents who volunteered at inoculation sites and were given the first vaccination shot, couldn't make appointments for the second dose because no records were kept. After the <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2021/01/25/scheduling-2nd-dose-vaccine-tough/4247091001/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Arizona Republic broke that story</a> the state fixed the problem.</p><p>But confusion, fear, and pandemonium rage from coast to coast as hoarding and uneven distribution have left states unprepared to vaccinate the public. A Wild West mentality has taken hold, including hoarding supplies that have been distributed.</p><p>Case in point, Philadelphia let college students with little to no healthcare background distribute vaccines. The city tapped a start-up, Philly Fighting COVID, run by self-described "college kids," to set up the first and largest mass COVID vaccination site in the city. The results were shambolic, with seniors in tears as appointments were not honored, and unsupervised teenagers instead vaccinated each other and took selfies, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/27/philly-fighting-covid-vaccine/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> and <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/philly-fighting-covid-coronavirus-vaccine-clinic-city-council-resolution-20210127.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a>.</p><p>There's even talk the 22-year-old CEO pocketed vials of vaccine. Philadelphia cut ties with Philly Fighting COVID and prosecutors say that they are chasing down "concerning" allegations.</p><p>On the left coast, things aren't much better. California's slow and disorganized distribution efforts have led the government to outsource statewide vaccination distribution to private insurer Blue Shield of California, according to a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-27/california-blue-shield-to-oversee-covid-19-vaccination-effort" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">story by Los Angeles Times</a>. Blue Shield spent more than $1 million on Gov. Gavin Newsom's 2018 election and nearly $1.3 million in recent state lobbying efforts.</p><p>Kaiser Permanente, a health maintenance organization (HMO) that provides services for more than 9 million Californians, will run a separate program for its members while assisting the state effort.</p><p>And in a <a href="https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/vaccine-distribution-state-level" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">recent virtual panel</a>, members of the American Medical Association (AMA), discussed the disappointingly slow efforts to get the 'vaccines into arms' at the state level.</p><p>Because Trump did nothing COVID has killed more Americans in less than a year than all the Americans killed in World War II combat. That's Trump's legacy.</p>
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Parkland parents unleash on conspiracy Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene after harassing video posted
January 28, 2021
It has been almost three years since the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, but now it's a different "Marjorie" who is a threat: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, the newly elected Republican from Georgia.
Since taking office, it was revealed that she chased Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg as he lobbied Capitol Hill for action to ban dangerous weapons. She denies that both the Parkland and Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings ever took place. She has also said that Sept. 11 was an inside job and that Hillary Clinton is murdering children to wear their faces.
<p><a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/01/27/parkland-parent-to-rep-greene-she-is-going-to-confront-her-lies-1360541" target="_blank">Politico reported Wednesday</a> that at least one Parkland parent is ready to ensure Greene confronts "her lies." </p><p>Parkland dad Fred Guttenberg lost his teenage daughter in the attack, he was the one who reposted the video of Greene coming after Hoog. As of writing, the video has 6 million views. </p><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="6b3fc8e81ed1e415ef0d2df23d64af1c" id="8c651"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354420542678441986"><div style="margin:1em 0">.@mtgreenee, is this you harassing @davidhogg111 weeks after the Parkland shooting, that my daughter was killed in… https://t.co/WzP4WCaJM3</div> — Fred Guttenberg (@Fred Guttenberg)<a href="https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/statuses/1354420542678441986">1611753995.0</a></blockquote></div>
<p>"She is going to confront her lies," he told Politico. "She is a fraud. She has no place being the halls of Congress. I do intend to bring her evidence of my daughter's murder."<br/></p><p>He's vowing to meet up Greene at some point to show her proof that his daughter Jamie was killed in the shooting. </p><p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-2650153694/" target="_blank">Greene chases Hogg down the street in the video</a> asking why he supports "red flag laws," which allow judges to take away weapons from someone deemed a violent threat to themselves or others. Republican former Gov. Rick Scott signed the measure into law in Florida after the shooting. </p><p>Hogg noted on Twitter that Greene's attacks are really just 1/10 of the 1 percent of harassment that those advocating for control of weapons face daily. </p><p>"You think we want to be doing this? @mtgreenee. F*ck no — I'd much rather be able to be a college student but I & others can't & you know why? Bc corrupt politicians like you have made it so it's on the survivors of Gun violence to end gun violence bc you can't do your damn job."<br/></p><p>Alaina Petty's dad Ryan also said that when someone in such a position calls the attacks "false flags" it's "cruel and hurtful to the families that have suffered the real loss of a loved one." When Infowars founder Alex Jones began conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook being a lie the attacks on the families were so substantial that some had to move for their own safety. They've since sued and won, proving that for some actions do have consequences. It's unclear if Greene's lies will reach that same level. </p><p>Both Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) have been completely silent on the issue, refusing to condemn Greene or refute her lies about Parkland. </p><p>Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) has, however. On Wednesday, he rushed to Twitter to tell the survivors to come to Washington and force the GOP to respond.</p><p><br/></p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="63cd29598daaccf010d8768f0801f9d4" id="d3532"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1354531199637737481"><div style="margin:1em 0">I saw the pain this tragedy brought & the trauma that continues even today in our community.
I encouraged the surv… https://t.co/8LTNkF7zgR</div> — Rep. Ted Deutch (@Rep. Ted Deutch)<a href="https://twitter.com/RepTedDeutch/statuses/1354531199637737481">1611780378.0</a></blockquote></div>
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