McCarthy, Cawthorn meet over comments about orgies, cocaine in Congress

Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn took a rap on the knuckles from his caucus chief on Wednesday over his claims on a podcast about orgies and cocaine use amongst his fellow members of Congress.

Reporters noticed Cawthorn leaving the workplace of Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday. Politico reporter Olivia Beavers tweeted a photograph of Cawthorn after what she described as a 30-minute assembly.

McCarthy told CNN’s Melanie Zanona that Cawthorn admitted his feedback have been an exaggeration and that the North Carolina congressman had misplaced his belief.

“That is unacceptable. There isn’t any proof to this,” McCarthy advised reporters on Wednesday, according to Axios reporter Alayna Treene.

The places of work of McCarthy and Cawthorn didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

The 26-year-old freshman congressman rankled his fellow lawmakers when he in contrast Congress to the Netflix present “Home of Playing cards” throughout a latest look on the Warrior Poet Society podcast.

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Requested by the podcast’s host whether or not the present was an correct depiction of Washington, Cawthorn mentioned: “The one factor that’s not correct in that present is you might by no means get a bit of laws about training handed that rapidly.”

Cawthorn mentioned he had been invited to a “sexual get-together” on the residence of a member of Congress and witnessed lawmakers utilizing cocaine.

“You then notice they’re asking you to come back to an orgy,” he mentioned on the podcast.

Earlier this month, Cawthorn received pushback from inside his social gathering when he was caught on video calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug” and the Ukrainian authorities “evil.”

Contributing: Chelsey Cox