Cawthorn's wife a Russian asset?

[FelineOverlord]

The wife he is divorcing is a Russian asset? Who could have guessed?

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[SoCalDavidS]

1. Big Deal

TFG was as well, and other than impeachment, nothing came of it.

I doubt anything will come of this either. The Garland motto: forgive and forget.

[Kingofalldems]

6. It's a really big deal.

[SoCalDavidS]

8. Maybe To Us It Is

To the people that matter, it’s merely some talking points.

Nothing will come of it, and he will continue as a member of Congress, and probably win re-election.

[Firestorm49]

38. Doesn't anybody ever vet these people for office?

If that’s not the norm, then perhaps it should be.

[gldstwmn]

59. That's what the voters are supposed to do.

[Irish_Dem]

64. The point being made is that Trump is a Russian asset and Magats don't care.

But yes of course, it is a very big deal and quite serious to learn that Putin has infiltrated all branches of US government.

[LakeArenal]

34. Ron Johnson spent the 4th of July in Russia.

[BHDem53]

45. With Thune.

[LakeArenal]

56. And Jill Stein

[Alexander Of Assyria]

48. Social media investigation prosecution and judgment is bit slower in real life than virtual.

So someone told me, but not on social media.
I trust the man Biden trusts.

[Meowmee]

76. "The Garland motto: forgive and forget" 😹🤯

[OnDoutside]

2. You have to admire the Rooskis for their "talent" spotting....

[Wounded Bear]

3. I imagine there is a US Consulate in St Petersburg...

so a US officer being assigned or visiting there is not totally out of the realm of possibility, but anything that includes Russia is certainly suspect.

[yardwork]

18. Is there a casino in St. Petersburg?

[Celerity]

72. None. They were outlawed in 2009.

[Cherokee100]

43. Sgt. Major

I had a Sargent Major in the Marine Corps. who worked with Lee Harvey Oswald in Japan. They were working (radar survailence ) U2s flights, over Russia/Soviet Union. Somehow Oswald ended up Russia. The point being, the Russians r very good, at getting inside any government they want. He also said Oswald was the quiet type and very smart. Didn't mingle with the rest of the troops much. Kinda makes me wonder. Semper Fidelis!!

[Ocelot II]

4. But wouldn't the Russians be smart enough to hook up their Red Sparrow

with somebody less dumb and useless than Madison Cawthorne?

[dem4decades]

7. You can cast a wide net and cull out the losers. But he is a US Congressman, how big do you want?

[mopinko]

11. worst that could happen is they pick up another useful idiot.

[Ocelot II]

12. He's definitely an idiot; how useful he might be is another question....

[mopinko]

16. well, did they help him get his seat?

that's the thing about idiots. they're there for you to use.

[Ford_Prefect]

51. Cawthorn got his seat courtesy of the NC GOP and the RW scum that own it. The same filthy rich who

funded the GOP takeover of the NC legislature. They are out of the same church as the rest of the RW Christian Empire and believe in the golden rule above all others: "Them as have the gold make the rules".

That Cawthorn would be part of a Russian operation, as a willing stooge or RW tool is no surprise. He's always waved the neo-fascist flag and that is one of the more popular pathways used by Russian Intel to win "friends" for Vladimir and the new Russian empire.

They would not need to win his seat in NC. His district is very RW already. They more likely use his access to congressional information along with his votes on committee or on the floor. They very clearly are using him as an outlet for propaganda and an advocate in Congress. No doubt he's been receiving whatever they are passing out in the way of campaign funds or other benefits.

[panader0]

46. Maybe that's why she's divorcing him. Totally useless and no information.

The thirty women who accused him of sexual crimes were known before the marriage.
Why would she marry the guy after learning of his past?

[LakeArenal]

35. Melania took trump. ....🤷🏼‍♀️

[Irish_Dem]

65. The Russians infiltrated the US Congress. That is huge.

And the dumber the mark the better.
MC is too stupid to know he is being used.
He just prattles Russian talking points on cue.

[rockfordfile]

74. I agree

[MineralMan]

5. Yeah, I think I'm going to need more information on this one.

Seems a little sketchy and thin to me.

[The Magistrate]

10. It's Good Enough For Agit-Prop Work, Sir

"My opponent is a known thespian who matriculated while at college!"

[MineralMan]

13. Yes, Indeed, Sir. Cawthorn Is an ASS,

but there is no real information regarding his meeting with his wife-to-be-and-soon-not-to-be in any of that. Certainly none that indicates that she was a Russian operative. Instead, she was apparently a US Army Captain, who might well have been there under no pretenses at all.

Someone is jumping to conclusions, I'd guess.

[The Magistrate]

19. True Or Not, Sir, Is Of Little Importance Nowadays

What is said often enough is believed by multitudes.

We are better than they are because our ends are better, not because there are effective tactics we refuse to dirty our hands with.


"If there are such things as angels, I hope they are organized on the lines of the Mafia."

[MineralMan]

20. Regrettably, you are correct, sir.

I deplore this kind of thing. If there is some evidence of it, the poster should show it forth. Apparently, there is only some speculation, which I guess passes for fact these days.

Ugh!

[onenote]

22. The only people who will believe it are those who already don't like Cawthorn

So you can rest assured it will amount to nothing.

[mn9driver]

24. The story is confusing. She herself was not an Army captain and has never visited Russia

At least, not that we know. The Army Captain met Cawthorn in Russia and subsequently hooked him up with his then-prospective wife in a contrived meeting in Miami.

Cawthorn’s now ex-wife is a fitness instructor, personal trainer and entrepreneur from Florida. She works primarily for the CrossFit Company, but claims to be studying to be a anesthesiologist assistant.

There is probably nothing there, but I’d like to know a little more about this army Captain who sidelines as a right wing Yenta….

[yardwork]

77. Doesn't Marjorie Taylor Green work for CrossFit?

[Progressive Jones]

73. Sounds like "she" wasn't the Cap. The Captain is the guy who introduced them, in FL. nt

[lapucelle]

23. ... "and her mother is a sexagenarian"

[albacore]

9. Sounds like rumor and hearsay....

Good. Spread it far and wide.

[Cracklin Charlie]

32. He said it himself.

He met her through a guy he met at a St. Petersburg gambling establishment. Twenty year old American in a Russian casino? The guy tricked him into meeting him at a phony CrossFit competition.

I’m not saying it’s true, but I do think his wife’s background deserves attention. She was a guest at the White House, and he’s a US Congress member.

[Takket]

14. yeah this doesn't look like much........

"Why would a U.S. Army officer be in a Russian casino?"

She was on vacation? She was on a layover? She was visiting relatives?

Not everything is the plot of a James Bond movie. In fact almost nothing is. Unless they want to produce some proof she has Russian handlers, it is a nothing burger.

And frankly we don't NEED her to be a Russian asset to KNOW that Cawthorn is a national security threat and a scumbag. He accomplished those things all on his own.

[viva la]

17. Why would an army captain marry this nincampoop?

I mean, at least espionage is a reason.

But then, why divorce a few months later?

[monkeyman1]

25. he likes lap dances !!!!

[DFW]

50. This happens once an "asset" has outlived its usefulness. It happened to a cousin of my wife

He used visit the former East Germany on occasion. On one visit, he met ,and fell in love with an East German woman. They applied for an exit visa for her, which was granted with remarkably (he never suspected a thing) little bureaucracy and no harassment. As soon as she was in the west, they got married. The day after the marriage, she left him. She went to work in the tech sector. Right after the Berlin Wall fell, and the socialist regime announced its dissolution and reunification with the West was announced, she committed suicide.

My wife's cousin was only useful as long as he was giving her a legitimate excuse to show up in the west. Once she was married and had a legal residence (citizenship was granted automatically to all East Germans arriving in the West), he was of no further use to the Stasi, and she was free to do what she had been sent to do, which was acquire high tech knowledge for her Stasi/KGB masters. Whether her suicide was genuine, or "assisted" was never investigated, or if so, not publicly.

[viva la]

61. That's such a cold war story... amazing

It reminds me of how Ivana Trump "defected"
.... married an Austrian and dumped as soon as she got past the iron curtain.

[DFW]

62. Definitely a cold war story, and certainly not unique

This just happened to involve someone we knew. There were surely hundreds if not thousands like it.

[Irish_Dem]

66. Mission accomplished or she was found out.

Time to move onto another mission or safety.

[blogslug]

21. Not saying I buy the narrative, but, to be clear

The wife is/was not the army officer. The army officer set Cawthorn up with the her, according to that bit of video.

[FelineOverlord]

15. Cawthorn's wife a Russian asset?

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[bucolic_frolic]

26. Wait a minute. Is this the modern-day equivalent of Russian mail-order bride?

[Historic NY]

30. Via the internet

[Cracklin Charlie]

27. Someone needs to find a picture of Ms. Cawthorn.

I’ve seen one. She was at the White House, in the final weeks of trumps presidency, at a fancy dinner, sitting next to her husband, with her cleavage hanging all over the table.

I don’t know how to find, or post, a picture.

[Joinfortmill]

49. Here's a couple from the Daily Mail. She's quite the athletic girl.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10340037/Madison-Cawthorns-wife-Cristina-28-admits-difficulties-marriage.html

[berni_mccoy]

28. The DOJ is on this...

Right after they are done indicting the Jan 6 organizers.

[George II]

52. The DOJ is doing their job and doing it properly. And they're getting 10X more done than under Barr.

[berni_mccoy]

53. Many would disagree with you.

Laurence Tribe for one. Adam Schiff, another. And at least a few dozen former federal prosecutors.

[George II]

57. Most would not. Even Schiff's comments have proven to not be as critical as some make it...

Lawrence Tribe? Does Merrick Garland call him to give him a status update? Tribe is just speculating. He's never investigated or prosecuted a single case for the Department of Justice.

[berni_mccoy]

58. I'm still waiting for the day when you realize

None of the people who organized this are going to spend a day in prison or suffer any consequences for doing so.

That day will come and then how will your being an apologist seem then?

[MineralMan]

68. Please stop. You have zero real information, yet you are bold

to tell others what WILL happen. I'm not sure why you are doing this, but it is borderline offensive.

[Historic NY]

29. How did he and his friends talk their way into Russian w/o visas...

it would have to involve an arrangement.....pay off.

[Sienna86]

36. He would have needed a visa to enter Russia

Can’t just drop in as he said in video.

[Historic NY]

54. Well there is video of them being there even at a McDonalds...

one of his friends didn't scrub it.

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All his antics in Mother russia...

[FakeNoose]

31. If Chump had won the election, that marriage would have lasted

Just sayin'

[revmclaren]

33. Bookmarking for later.

[Wingus Dingus]

37. Why was this little snot-nose in Russia?

Why are Republicans always going to Russia?

[TheRealNorth]

79. Did he "win" any money while he was at the "casino" in St. Petersburg?

Just saying that that would be a convenient way to launder money or pass a bribe.

[cayugafalls]

39. It's the internet, so it must be true! Mark Zuckerberg funded the Cross Fit Competition, so I heard

[bringthePaine]

40. ok, so, how many refuKKKchickens in the word "dumbfuck"? (trick question ha - all of 'em!)

[bucolic_frolic]

41. So he got lured into a marriage and now an expensive quickie divorce

Bright one!

[UCmeNdc]

42. Why are sooooo many Republicans mixed up with Russian connections?

[ancianita]

44. Possibility #1: Russia-connected right wing Batista Cubans in Miami, and stupidity.

Maybe that's two. Anyway, while Cuba stopped getting oil from Russia decades ago, Russians in Cuba did not return home to Russia. They left for Miami with Batista Cubans, and they still have an embassy in Cuba, which is the ugliest building on planet Earth.

Possibility #2: Trump hooked up with Russia through business dealings in Miami, so now Russians have felt even more at home in finding American assets ever since. And setting up anchor baby networks.

[Irish_Dem]

67. Because they are receiving money from Putin and Russian oligarchs.

[Joinfortmill]

47. Republican Party is now the Republican Russian Party.

[George II]

55. Cawthorn has once again been caught in a blatant lie - make that two:

1. There is no boat service between Sweden and St. Petersburg. Even if there was, it would be a 1-1/2 day trip!
2. There are no casinos in St. Petersburg - NOT ONE!

He's acting like he hopped on the Staten Island Ferry to Manhattan!

[FelineOverlord]

60. Cawthorn's wife a Russian asset?

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[Xoan]

63. I expect to hear that Cawthorn ...

fell out of a hotel window.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

70. Who is surprised by this?

Cawthorn appears to be a russian pawn and was entrapped by a russian honeypot

[EX500rider]

82. "...and was entrapped by a russian honeypot"

Except she appears to be American?

Cawthron's wife Cristina Bayardelle is an American fitness model, athlete, fitness instructor, personal trainer and entrepreneur from Florida.
She mainly works for the CrossFit fitness company.
Cristina has competed in six different CrossFit tournaments over the last five years, the most recent in 2020.
She is studying to be an anesthesiologist, according to an Instagram post by Madison.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1739608/madison-cawthorn-wife-cristina/

[rockfordfile]

71. Russian republican party. Un-American pos

[rockfordfile]

75. Army Captain?

There's a Army Captain in prison for 15 years who spied for Russia. Peter Dzibinski Debbins 46 pleaded guilty last year to espionage-related charge of conspiracy to gather or deliver defense information to aid a foreign government.

In court filings, Debbins said he was motivated by a combination of familial loyalty, financial opportunity and personal grievance against the U.S. Army. His mother came from the Soviet Union and, according to court documents, he described himself as a “son of Russia” who thought the United States needed to be “cut down to size.”

[Celerity]

78. Maddy Cawthorn and this whole back story is BS. There are only 6 zones where gambling / casinos are

allowed. None of them are in St. Petersburg.
Why is it that the Daily Caller RW site, not catch that? Did they want this backstory to get traction?

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[TheRealNorth]

80. Did he "win" a lot of money?

If so, I think we have our answer.

[Achilleaze]

81. The Evil Empire Russians totally own the Republicans