Following a trail of crumbs isn’t the least bit difficult when loaves of bread are being thrown in the street so people can trip over them. Usually a divorce of a first year congressman doesn’t become a national security issue but in this case it just might. Cristina leaves, Madison goes on Fox News to talk about Russia, when he doesn’t know the first thing about foreign policy. Both events happen so closely together there’s not even sunlight between them. Coincidence? Ask John Le Carre, maybe he knows.
Here’s the latest.
The second I saw him booked on Fox Sunday to talk about Russia, I knew something was up. This guy doesn’t know a damn thing about foreign policy. So I had to watch. Sure enough he denigrates our military capabilities vis a vis Russia. Then Russian TV plays his clip in Moscow.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 27, 2021
If you missed the backstory, here’s how he met wifey.
— The Iron Oolite (@NNudnick) December 27, 2021
The “magical relationship” broke up after eight months of marriage and they married very shortly after they met. Something broke the spell. Here’s a little more background. Daily Kos:
A rudimentary search of Bayardelle’s friends on various social media platforms includes a few folks named Todd but none of them appear to have enlisted in the Army. Likewise, Cawthorn’s @CawthornForNC campaign account appears not to show him following anyone named Todd who would match that description. Meeting through CrossFit, even as a ruse, certainly tracks with Bayardelle’s aspirations, though. She’s a competitive CrossFitter and partners with a slew of athletic apparel brands, like Born Primitive.
The timing on Cawthorn’s divorce is pretty remarkable as well. Though Cawthorn issued a statement citing “irreconcilable differences” that he blamed on transitioning from being a civilian into being a sitting lawmaker, the news comes shortly after Cawthorn went on a bizarre tirade slamming Roe vs. Wade in which he called women “earthen vessels,” which is a very artisanal way of saying “baby-making machines.” Perhaps Bayardelle was no longer feeling a partner who wants to reduce her and all women into wombs and nothing more.
As if the story of how Cawthorn and Bayardelle met wasn’t suspect enough, the circumstances surrounding the Cawthorns tying the knot is equally strange. The couple legally wed last December, according to an article in BlueRidgeNow. Marrying in December instead of waiting supposedly made it easier for Cawthorn to assume his duties as a congressman with his wife by his side. According to a press secretary for Cawthorn, the marriage allowed the two to “streamline the paperwork process needed for him to take office in D.C. with her as his spouse.”
They later held what Cawthorn’s press secretary described as a “religious ceremony” on April 3rd of this year. The date coincides with the anniversary of the car crash that left Cawthorn paralyzed. Cawthorn told People Magazine that Bayardelle chose that date so that the two would have something positive to celebrate instead of looking back to the 2014 accident. “It kind of changes that history in my mind,” Cawthorn said, “to where it’s not my saddest day; it’s my favorite day.”
So where does this leave us:
- Cawthorn and his now-ex were both Russian operatives?
- Mrs. Cawthorn didn’t know the Russian angle, she was in it for the money?
- Mrs. Cawthorn didn’t understand what she was getting herself into and when she figured it out decided to run?
- We don’t have enough facts to make a hypothesis?
This is heating up, as was promised.
5. He’s too dim to realize he was being recruited by her, and also too dim to be effective because he likes to run his mouth and pretend he’s somehow knowledgeable about everything, even after multiple demonstrations that his mental maturity is about 18 years.
You insult 18 year olds. People who support and make up the GQP have the mentality and intellectual curiosity of a paramecium. They are shameless and hypocritical criminals who deserve to be under the jail.
You, in turn, insult paramecia. They have an excuse for their lack of mentality and intellectual curiosity (ie, they have nothing resembling a brain). Cawthorn, in theory, does have a brain; he just chooses not to use it.