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“The reason why they have taken these political prisoners is because they’re trying to make an example because they don’t want to see the mass protests in Washington. They don’t want to see people addressing their government for leaving thirteen Marines to die in Afghanistan.
“What’s controversial is we’ve got 536 people being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours out of the day who are not being allowed to have religious freedoms. Who are having their rights stripped away from them, not being capable of having someone represent them and being political hostages.
“This is something that when I first started hearing about it, I was, like, ‘No way that’s really going on.’ But I’ll tell you with the small amount of investigating we’ve done, it’s going on.” – Madison Cawthorn, yesterday.
The number changes daily with new arrests, but at the last count, fewer than 50 Capitol rioters are being held awaiting trial, not 536. And rather obviously, none of them have been denied lawyers.
At Macon County GOP event yesterday, Madison Cawthorn called January 6 rioters “political hostages,” and spoke of trying to “bust them out.” Then-
Attendee: “When are you gonna call us to Washington again?”
Cawthorn: “We are actively working on that one.”pic.twitter.com/hN96kswnNt— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 30, 2021
Republican Congressman Madisan Cawthorn (at 50:16): “I will remove Joe Biden from office, and then when Kamala Harris inevitably screws up we will take them down one at a time.”https://t.co/P4WnpzJ0m5 pic.twitter.com/QQLBgwztJV
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 30, 2021
Madison Cawthorn says (at 50:55) “we all know it was a stolen election,” of the 2020 presidential election.
He goes on to say (at 51:42) that he believes Dan Forest defeated Governor Roy Cooper. Forest lost by 250,000 votes. His concession speech is here https://t.co/HyMsOIRKuR pic.twitter.com/mLGYNLnSbC
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 30, 2021
At 1:04:00 he gets a question about vaccine passports and calls for boycotts of businesses that require vaccines. He shares a quote he finds inspiring: “When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes your duty.” He then encourages onlookers to engage in “a little civil disobedience”
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 30, 2021
During a long riff at 1:11:10 about covid Cawthorn says wearing masks is “anti-science” because if you eat at a Mexican restaurant you can smell the food through the mask which proves that particles pass through them so they don’t work
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 30, 2021
The exchange about January 6 “political prisoners” begins at 1:14:13; Cawthorn says of his attempts to help people facing trial for attacking the U.S. Capitol, “we are actively working on this, we have a few plans in motion that we can’t make public right now.” pic.twitter.com/ydshJN7tq2
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 30, 2021
At 1:17:30 Cawthorn goes on a rant about how “experimental” Covid vaccines are dangerous to children, telling attendees to “defend their children” from Covid vaccines
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 30, 2021