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McCarthy Slammed for Being Harsher on Cawthorn Than Marjorie Taylor Greene
BY ALEXANDRA HUTZLER ON 3/30/22 AT 4:10 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/mccarthy-slammed-being-harsher-cawthorn-marjorie-taylor-greene-1693534
Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is being criticized for appearing to come down harder on Rep. Madison Cawthorn than Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
McCarthy said Wednesday he met with Cawthorn after the freshman lawmaker from North Carolina said he's been invited by his colleagues in Washington, D.C., to orgies and witnessed some politicians doing cocaine.
"He's lost my trust. He's going to have to earn it back," McCarthy told reporters, adding that he laid out during the conversation everything he found "unbecoming."
Axios reported that McCarthy also threatened further action against Cawthorn. "There's a lot of different things that can happen," he said.
The House minority leader's remarks were met with backlash on social media as users quickly noted that he was less severe in his response to Greene's attendance at a white nationalist event in late February. Arizona Republican Paul Gosar was also at the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) in Florida. AFPAC was founded by Nick Fuentes, who the anti-defamation league describes as a "white supremacist.
McCarthy said at the time he had spoken with Greene and that "she will not go again" to the conference, but he declined to punish her further.
"McCarthy laying down the law against Cawthorn—in a way he's resisted doing against MTG or Gosar," National Journal columnist Josh Kraushaar wrote on Twitter.
Jon Favreau, co-host of the podcast Pod Save America, had a similar reaction. Favreau tweeted, "Note that Kevin McCarthy did not say Marjorie Taylor Greene lost his trust after she attended a white nationalist rally where they cheered Putin."
"I reaaaally don't want to sound like I'm defending Cawthorn here, but does anyone find it weird how much angrier McCarthy sounds about a backbencher mouthing off about some blow than he ever did about Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly embracing a neo-Nazi??" Tiana Lowe, a commentary writer at the Washington Examiner, posted online.
Newsweek reached out to McCarthy's office for comment but didn't immediately receive a response.
Cawthorn made the controversial claims during an appearance on the Warrior Poet Society podcast, describing Capitol Hill as similar to the television drama series House of Cards.
"I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70—you know, I look at all these people, a lot of them that I've always looked up to through my life, always paid attention to politics, guys that, you know. Then all of the sudden you get invited to, like, 'Oh hey, we're going to have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes. You should come,'" Cawthorn said.
The remarks reportedly "upset" members of the GOP.
McCarthy also told reporters Wednesday that Cawthorn admitted to exaggerating some of his claims about orgies and cocaine use.
"You can't make statements like that as a member of Congress, it affects everybody else and the country as a whole," McCarthy said, per Politico's Olivia Beavers.
Update 03/30/22, 4:50 p.m. ET: This story was updated with more information and background.
>McCarthy also told reporters Wednesday that Cawthorn admitted to exaggerating some of his claims about orgies and cocaine use.
I wonder if this is really true……was he exaggerating or was he hushed?
Here is a little more about the meeting…
Kevin McCarthy says he rebuked Madison Cawthorn over 'orgy' tale
https://news.yahoo.com/kevin-mccarthy-says-rebuked-madison-211809800.html
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., met with first-term Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., on Wednesday about his claims of colleagues using drugs and inviting him to a "sexual get-together."
McCarthy said he told Cawthorn that “I lost my trust in him” because of the salacious claims and that there "could be" consequences as a result. He didn't specify what those consequences could be.
A source with knowledge of the meeting told NBC News that Cawthorn failed to provide any evidence of the sex and drugs allegations that have outraged his colleagues and that McCarthy warned him he would have to earn his trust back.
Cawthorn made the allegations during an interview last week on the podcast "Warrior Poet Society," after he was asked whether his experience in Washington, D.C. was like the scandalous Netflix show "House of Cards."
Cawthorn then dove into a monologue about "the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington," and said some of his older colleagues had invited him to orgies.
"I mean being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 to 70, and I 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 — then all of a sudden you get invited," Cawthorn said, quoting one such alleged exchange.
"'Oh, hey we're going to have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes. You should come.' I'm like, what did you just ask me to come to? Then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy," Cawthorn said.
He then continued talking about "the fact there are some of the people leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country, and then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you. And you're like, 'This is wild.'"
The comments upset many of Cawthorn's House Republican colleagues, who expressed their frustration to McCarthy in a meeting on Tuesday, Politico reported.
McCarthy told Axios that Cawthorn acknowledged his claims were "exaggerated."
“In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Then when he comes in he tells me, he says he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage from 100 yards away,” McCarthy said.
Cawthorn declined to comment after the meeting, saying, "We're not doing interviews today." His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on McCarthy's remarks.
The 26-year-old North Carolina congressman is aza close ally of former President Donald Trump who spoke at the Jan. 6 rally before the riot at the U.S. Capitol and has continued promoting Trump's phony election fraud claims since.
He was rebuked publicly by McCarthy earlier this month after he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "a thug” whose government "is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies.”
"Madison is wrong," McCarthy said then. Asked if he would still support his re-election bid, McCarthy said, "Yes."
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>McCarthy told Axios that Cawthorn acknowledged his claims were "exaggerated."
>“In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Then when he comes in he tells me, he says he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage from 100 yards away,” McCarthy said.
Upon further thinking…Madison, you are either crazy af and you got to go or you were hushed and you are having to say this silly staffer parking garage 100 yards away shit. Now which is it?
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