Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy can have a phrase with freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn after he made feedback on a podcast final week that fellow GOP lawmakers stated depicted them as sex-crazed occasion animals.
Plenty of Republicans at a closed-door convention assembly Tuesday sounded off to McCarthy (R-Calif.) about claims by Cawthorn (R-NC) that a few of his colleagues had invited him to orgies and snorted traces of cocaine in entrance of him, Politico reported.
Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), one of many lawmakers who reportedly rose to talk, stated he was getting grilled by media members about Cawthorn’s claims of drug use and debauchery.
Womack reminded his caucus colleagues that a lot of them hit the sack at 9 p.m. and nonetheless use fax machines and flip telephones, earlier than criticizing Cawthorn for lumping all of them collectively together with his accusations of craven habits.
Cawthorn, 26, likened Capitol Hill to the corrupt and sexually charged atmosphere portrayed within the Netflix collection “Home of Playing cards” throughout a podcast interview final week.
“The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington. I imply, being form of a younger man in Washington, the place the typical age might be 60 or 70 — [you] have a look at all these folks, plenty of them that I’ve seemed as much as by means of my life, I’ve all the time paid consideration to politics,” Cawthorn, who was elected in 2020, advised the Warrior Poet Society podcast.
“Then swiftly you get invited: ‘We’re going to have a sexual get-together at one in every of our properties, you must come.’ ‘What did you simply ask me to return to?’ And then you definately understand they’re asking you to return to an orgy,” he added.
Cawthorn additionally claimed to have seen folks he described as main nationwide anti-addiction efforts snort coke.
“You watch them do a bump of cocaine proper in entrance of you,” he stated. “And it’s like, that is wild.”
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