Cawthorn tells McCarthy orgy, cocaine remarks were exaggerated

[brooklynite]

Axios

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) admitted suggestions that his colleagues have done cocaine and invited him to orgies were "exaggerated" in a tense meeting with Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the House GOP leader told Axios.

Driving the news: McCarthy says he may take further action to condemn Cawthorn over his "unacceptable" remarks, which set off a firestorm within the House Republican conference.

What he's saying: "There's a lot of different things that can happen," McCarthy told Axios and other reporters.

"I just told him he's lost my trust, he's gonna have to earn it back, and I laid out everything I find is unbecoming. And, you can't just say 'You can't do this again.' I mean, he's, he's got a lot of members very upset."

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. Little Big Wheels said it

but he's too chickenshit to own it. Figures.

[Beakybird]

2. Exaggerated. Just a few lines of cocaine and orgies with no more than 10 participants.

[drray23]

3. call me a conspiracy theorist

but i take this as meaning it really does happen and mccarthy and others were freaked out cawthorn was talking about it.
When it comes to the gop I assume the worst and usually its accurate..

[Caliman73]

4. I mean, it is one thing to spread deliberate lies about Democrats...

but when you start saying things that may be happening among America's most powerful conservative leaders, that is stepping over the line.

Sure, talk about taking up arms to kill Liberals. Sure, keep talking about child sex trafficking and Hillary Clinton. That is just fine.

Talk about the drugs and sex that likely happens in the Conservative Halls of Power, and you have to be slapped down.

Cawthorn is a disgusting piece of crap and should be out of Congress and under investigation ... for a lot of things, but blowing the whistle on the corruption within his own party is the actual thing that was important to McCarthy.

Figures.

[viva la]

5. So he lied, and McCarthy's response is:

"You'll have to earn back my trust!"

Like he was the errant teen son who drove the car without a license.

[rsdsharp]

9. Well, he's not a teen,

but he has been caught driving without a license.

[tenderfoot]

6. Then how does he know what a "Key Bump" is?

I don't use cocaine and have never heard that term ever but looked it up and it apparently means "to snort a cocaine line off the side of a key"

🤔

[rampartc]

10. thanks, that is what i guessed

but i really thought they used straws or those little spoons.

[Coventina]

7. IOW: I just made shit up. n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. McCarthy's just ticked off because *he's* never invited. nt

[Trueblue1968]

11. GOP SHOULD SUE CAWTHORNE FOR HIS SLANDER AND LIES.

what a horrible man he is. he is a punk ass kid

[Hekate]

12. But his short-term Russian bride was really hot for him...

…and cried when her bosses yanked her back home.

[Dorian Gray]

13. They realized

how dim he is and that grooming him was a waste of time.