Haven’t seen a story up about this yet, so I’m posting it here now. It’s true, by the way.
Sources:
www.mediaite.com/…
www.dailydot.com/…
abc7ny.com/...
If someone else beat me to it, I’ll take this diary down.
Cawthorn is blowing it off as joking around with a cousin who was like a brother to him, and dismissing the leak as blackmail.
In the video, he apparently thrusts his penis repeatedly in his cousin’s face. It’s unclear if his cousin is giving him oral sex or not, and really I don’t think anyone here cares about that distinction.
Twitter has come down like a hammer on any links of the video (Yes, I tried to find the uncensored video to confirm its contents, because I hate myself just enough to consider that my duty before reporting this), so I cannot include a link to the video at this time, nor can I describe the contents in detail. We’re thus left to Cawthorn’s denial and the sniggering of the masses as the only evidence of what actually is happening, at least until whoever leaked it finds a more permanent solution.
While none of us have a problem with homosexuality, and only cared about his duplicity and hypocrisy, I think we draw the line at “incest”. I’m not sure that this is what is meant by “family values” in the GOP; Even Rudy Giuliani had heterosexual sex when he married his cousin, though, so who knows if this is a bridge too far.
EDIT: Alright, I know nobody WANTS to read or hear about this (I certainly didn’t when my brother hit me up at 6 am to say ‘Get ready for some schadenfreude...”), but this IS newsworthy. Give me a few recs for my troubles, I had to research this and actually sift through screenshots and look for the video, and all on an empty stomach because no WAY was I eating breakfast while doing that!