Madison Cawthorn was caught doing WHAT during a Zoom meeting?!
Related: Rep. Madison Cawthorn and wife to divorce after eight months of marriageCawthorn’s actions could not be seen by members of the public watching the meeting.
Only the person talking was shown on screen at any one time. However, at least two of the other people taking part in the session could see what Cawthorn was doing.One of them, a 9/11 first responder called John Feal, told the Daily Beast, “It was immature.
He’s a child. He lacks common sense. I think the congressman was overcompensating for something that he lacks and feeling inadequate among the heroes on that call.”Lindsay Church, a queer, non-binary veteran, took screenshots of Cawthorn cleaning his gun and posted them to Twitter.Imagine you showed up for a Zoom meeting and a colleague decided that was when he needed to clean his gun.
Because that’s what happened today in a Congressional roundtable on toxic exposure. We’re better than this. pic.twitter.com/ePJGKdspfY— Lindsay Church (@lkmchurch) January 20, 2022Cawthorn apparently worked out of sight on his gun for several minutes, but it became clear what he was doing when Jen Burch, a veteran who spent six years in the Air Force serving in Japan and Afghanistan, gave testimony.The live meeting, which ran for over two hours, heard reports about how burn pits, which are used to dispose of trash in combat zones, can cause damage to the health of military personnel tasked with standing near them.Another of those involved with the meeting, Rosie Lopez Torres, the cofounder of Burn Pits 360, told Daily Beast she was not aware of what Cawthorn was doing.
