Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn –who resigned after accusations of ” sexually aggressive behavior” in 2020– told Jack Posobiec on RAV’s “Human Events” that “honeytrapping” and blackmail are very common in Congress.
MADISON CAWTHORN: Normally, the way I found that these things start getting off the ground is that it starts out—you’re maybe at a donor dinner or getting dinner after a late night of votes. Then, you know, everyone has friends inside of Congress, so you start hanging out with friends. Maybe you’re grabbing drinks, or on the way back to Capitol Hill, heading back to your homes.
Then you start building these relationships, and most congressmen like to hang out with other congressmen, just because there are so many problems when you hang out with staffers or people with different angles in other parts of the Beltway.
I will tell you, normally, the way I came across this is that people start inviting me and saying, “Hey, why don’t you come back? My wife would love to hang out with you, and we can see what could be going on here. I think we’d have a really good time if we all got together in this way.”
Then you start piecing it together and say, “Wait a minute, what kind of invitation is this? This sounds really weird. What do you mean leave my phone at the house?” That doesn’t make any sense—these random things they’re saying. It becomes very clear what they’re looking for. That’s the big one—“check your phone at the door,” that kind of thing.
I had no interest in anything like that. I’ve got a phenomenal life. I was only 25 years old when I was in Congress, so that didn’t interest me whatsoever. I thought the majority of people in the United States were very cognizant of that. So I came out and talked about it, and they tried to destroy me for it.
I’ll tell you, there were 16 people that I really hold responsible—the architects of trying to take down my political career. I want you to ask yourselves: out of all the people who came out against me or sent funds to make sure I was pushed out of Congress, where are those people now?
I’m very happy that I was able to take the majority of them down, or that the majority of them are now out of office or have terrible personal lives at this point. But I will tell you, there are so many people inside Washington, D.C., that have much worse on them than what’s going on inside of this video.
Normally, it’s used so that people can hold this over their head for certain kinds of votes—whether it’s a honey pot operation or whatever it is. But in most circumstances—and this is something I would tell anybody when they get elected to Congress—you are not that funny, you’re not just randomly more attractive.
If you’re in some normal town in the middle of the American heartland, and three outrageous-looking 10s walk up to you and say, “Hey, we’d like to have a foursome,” I promise you, you are not that funny and you are not that attractive. They are there to hold leverage over you. That is what’s going on.
That’s what these people get caught up in. Once they get caught in these kinds of rings where people are holding this over their head, they say, “Well, if this is being held over me, I might as well go out and have a good time.” Then they start willfully going out and doing this.
Now, I don’t know if they’re out there trying to solicit prostitutes and things like that—I had no experience witnessing anything like that. But I do know there is a lot of sexual perversion, a lot of people who do not care about the rings they wear on their left hands.
