Anti-LGBT North Carolina congressional candidate Madison Cawthorn, 25, delivered an urgent message to his supporters from a private border wall in Texas warning that American children are being kidnapped by “a large group of cartels” and then being sold on “the sex slave market.” Cawthorn, according to a fact-check by the Citizen-Times, was echoing discredited child sex trafficking claims promoted by the extremist conspiracy theory movement.
The newspaper also notes that his video was shot at the border wall built by the crowdfunding campaign whose organizers, most notably former Trump-adviser Stephen Bannon, were charged last week with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors. “Sure, there are children being human-trafficked across our