A North Carolina Republican congressional candidate reportedly deleted an old social media post chronicling his trip to Adolf Hitler’s home.
Madison Cawthorn, 25, reportedly deleted a 2017 post taken from the Eagle’s Nest, the Nazi retreat in Germany that Hitler visited, on Monday shortly after it was dug up by Jezebel and was pointed out by his congressional opponent Moe Davis. As of Tuesday evening, the post appeared on his account.
“The vacation house of the führer. Seeing the Eagles Nest has been on my bucket list for awhile, it did not disappoint. Strange to hear so many laughs and share such a good time with my brother where only 79 years ago a supreme evil shared laughs and good times with his compatriots,” the post from Cawthron read.
There is not a racist bone in @CawthornforNC body. I know Madison.
The Left will do anything, including LIE, to bring down any good man who refuses to buckle in the face of the radical Left. Or any person – period – with the audacity to think for themselves.
— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) August 11, 2020
Just seeing these @CawthornforNC Instagram posts from 2017…my god.
Referring to Hitler with the honorific “Führer.” Saying a visit to Hitler’s vacation home where he planned out unspeakable atrocities as a “bucket list” moment…as if it’s a visit to the Grand Canyon pic.twitter.com/AvgNSe23cO
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 11, 2020
Even after deleting the post, the GOP congressional candidate has defended himself on Twitter.
“Another fake news controversy: When our soldiers were photographed at the Eagle’s Nest in 1945 they were clearly celebrating the Allies triumph over one of the greatest evils in human history,” he wrote on Tuesday. “They weren’t celebrating evil; they were celebrating their victory over evil.”
He also declared that he doesn’t “cower to the mob” and that “the new Republican Party that I represent will fight back against liberal lies.”
If Cawthorn can win the western North Carolina district, heavily gerrymandered since 2011, he would be the first 25-year-old to be seated in the House since the mid-1970s. He is running to replace former Rep. Mark Meadows, who is President Trump’s chief of staff. He beat out Haywood County Republican Party Chairwoman Lynda Bennett, 62, who had endorsements from Meadows and the president.
