The internet erupted in laughter at freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) after he attempted to school his Democratic colleagues about the importance of facts yesterday but then got one of the most basic facts in his speech wrong.
The embarrassing moment happened while Cawthorn was speaking on the House floor during a debate over whether to repeal the Trump administration’s “true lender” rule via the Congressional Review Act.
Cawthorn attempted to sound like a statesman by dropping a favorite Founding Fathers quote into his speech. “It was Thomas Jefferson that [sic] said, ‘Facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.’