House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy assured his members he would speak with firebrand freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn after lawmakers voiced frustrations about his comment that politicians he “looked up to” invited him to an orgy and used hard drugs.
“Members were complaining it maligned the institution, and he should name names if it is true,” one senior GOP source told the Washington Examiner after McCarthy’s comments Tuesday at a House Republican Conference meeting.
“Kevin said he is going to talk to him,” the source said about the House minority leader, a California Republican.
Rep. Steve Womack, an Arkansas Republican and a former House Budget Committee chairman, raised concerns about inquiries pertaining to which members are partaking in drug use and orgies in the wake of Cawthorn’s accusations, another source confirmed.
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Two sources said Cawthorn, a North Carolina Republican, was not in attendance at the meeting.
Cawthorn, the youngest member of Congress who has sparked a number of controversies since first being elected, made the allegations during an appearance on the Warrior Poet Society podcast with host John Lovell after he was asked how realistic the Netflix series House of Cards is.
“The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average of is probably 60 or 70 — [you] look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life. I’ve always paid attention to politics,” Cawthorn said.
“Then, all of a sudden, you get invited — ‘We’re going to have a sexual get-together at one of our homes. You should come,'” Cawthorn added. “What did you just ask me to come to? And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy.”
Cawthorn then alleged widespread drug use by lawmakers, suggesting they’re guilty of hypocrisy when it comes to narcotics.
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“Some of the people leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country,” Cawthorn said about fellow lawmakers. “And then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you. And it’s like, this is wild.”
