Madison Cawthorn seems to love getting people wound up. He’s only been in the spotlight for a few years — and an elected official for just over a year — yet he manages to generate enough scandal to stay in state and national headlines seemingly every week.
On Thursday, WRAL shared a video of him calling Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug” to his supporters at an event last weekend. He also says Ukraine “is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
Cawthorn tried to walk those comments back after WRAL broke the story Wednesday, posting on his congressional Twitter account that “the actions of Putin and Russia are disgusting. But leaders, including Zelenskyy, should NOT push misinformation on America.”
