Madison Cawthorn

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Madison Cawthorn exaggerated his wild claims about life in Washington.

The GOP leader said Cawthorn described the cocaine incident differently than he did in the podcast. Cawthorn recently alleged that he had been invited to an orgy by a fellow politician, and that other pols had done a “key bump” of cocaine in his presence. At least the young lawmaker walked back his claim about the cocaine — way back, according to Politico:

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 ...

And when I sit down with him ... I told him you can't make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole." - "In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Why it matters: Campaign finance reform advocates say that opens the door to former public servants to live large off of money intended for political contests. 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." - "It's just frustrating. 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.

Kevin McCarthy keeps having private chats with members such as Madison Cawthorn, and they don't appear to be helping.

And a closed-door chat with a member whose rhetoric aligned with the deranged QAnon delusion. Of particular interest, though, is McCarthy’s willingness to have a chat with the North Carolinian, at which point the minority leader will probably ask Cawthorn not to say such things. And a closed-door chat with a member who released a video depicting him murdering a Democratic colleague. During a closed-door House GOP conference meeting on Tuesday, multiple Republicans in the room said lawmakers stood up to air their anger and frustration over Cawthorn portraying his own colleagues as bacchanalian and sexual deviants. “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,” Cawthorn said. Cawthorn appeared on a podcast last week and was asked whether the TV show “House of Cards” is realistic.

(QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Meghan McCain, former co-host of ABC's The View, political columnist, and daughter of late Senator John McCain is calling out North ...

Cawthorn refused to comment as he left a 30-minute meeting with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and No. 2 GOP leader Rep.

Merriam-Webster took it upon itself to define what a "key bump" is. · The dictonary tweeted out the definition in the wake of Rep. Madison Cawthorn's recent ...

Cawthorn did not respond to Politico's Olivia Beaver's questions as he left the meeting. The dictionary also adds a series of words each year that often represent some of the biggest touchstones of the moment. We do not enter 'key bump' as a fixed phrase, as it has not yet demonstrated wide currency of use," the dictionary giant wrote on Twitter.

"I think it is important, if you're going to say something like that, to name some names," another Republican lawmaker said.

(A spokesperson for McCarthy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) "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," Cawthorn said. He continued: "Some of the people that are leading on the movement to try to remove addiction in our country, then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine in front of you."

Republican North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn met with Republican leadership on Wednesday to discuss his recent allegations regarding drug use ...

"The American public deserves to know which members of Congress are doing cocaine and having orgies because they are unfit for office. Should we all just start guessing the people he's talking about?" According to CNN's Manu Raju, Senator Thom Tillis said that if Cawthorn's accusations are true, "he's got a lot of information to reveal."

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to speak with Rep. Madison Cawthorn after the North Carolinian angered his GOP colleagues with claims that ...

“I’m like, ‘What did you just ask me to come to?’” Mr. Cawthorn said. “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,” said Mr. Cawthorn, 26. “We have a right to know who Cawthorn is talking about,” Ms. McCain wrote in The Daily Mail. “This kind of behavior is also not only illegal, but it is beneath the dignity of the code of ethics that members of Congress take when they are elected to office.”

Cawthorn also claimed he's seen members of Congress to cocaine in front of him. “Some of the people that are leading on the movement to try to remove addiction ...

(The institution had rejected him before the crash.) He also was untruthful when describing the circumstances of the crash itself, having claimed he was “declared dead” while an accident report obtained by The Washington Post said he was “incapacitated.” For instance, he claimed that he was set to attend the Naval Academy before getting into the car crash that paralyzed him from the waist down in 2014. “Then you realized they’re asking you to come to an orgy.” Cawthorn also claimed he’s seen members of Congress to cocaine in front of him. “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.” “In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., met with first-term Rep.

Asked if he would still support his re-election bid, McCarthy said, "Yes." His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on McCarthy's remarks. "'Oh, hey, we're going to have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes. “In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. And you're like, 'This is wild.'" He didn't specify what those consequences could be.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) delivered the kind of dressing down that has been absent in other cases, including when members appeared at ...

But while he publicly detailed his talks with Cawthorn on Wednesday, he repeatedly declined to press the issue so openly, or so forcefully, with Greene and Gosar. But perhaps the biggest reason is that — unlike attending a white-nationalist conference, apparently — this is something McCarthy’s members really didn’t like. After a meeting with Greene, there was no mention of lost trust or making amends Just about all McCarthy would say on the matter was that Greene would not attend the conference again. It’s likely that Cawthorn’s other recent comments — when he labeled Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” — contributed to this. Whip Steve Scalise of their meeting with Cawthorn says: “We expressed real concern with some of the things that he's done recently. “There’s a lot of different things that can happen,” McCarthy said. The backlash was remarkably swift. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has stomached plenty along the way to what he hopes will be a GOP House majority that elects him as speaker. He declined to discuss consequences. And he even alluded to potential consequences if that doesn’t take place. He said Cawthorn had admitted the stories weren’t strictly true. McCarthy signaled he had given his colleague an extensive dressing-down.

The strange saga between House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and inflammatory freshman GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn continues apace.

Of the purported cocaine use, Beavers said, Cawthorn “thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage maybe 100 yards away.” To make things even stranger, CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona reported Wednesday that McCarthy issued an odd warning. During that meeting, Beavers reported, McCarthy expressed losing trust in Cawthorn.

There's really only one question these days for North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn: Who? As in, who are the people that allegedly invited the Republican ...

All of which means that the ball is now very clearly in Cawthorn's court. They also said If his comments are true then he needs to name names because otherwise it unfairly maligns the entire institution," reported Zanona. If it's not true, then he's guilty of being untruthful." If it's true, then he's got a lot of information to reveal. ... 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. McCarthy also said that when pressed, Cawthorn basically admitted he either exaggerated or made up the allegations.

In a podcast interview last week, Cawthorn was asked whether the hit television show “House of Cards” was an accurate reflection of life in the nation's ...

“One of their members is being investigated for sex trafficking a minor and they’ve been pretty OK w/ that. A Womack spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Not sure why Republicans are acting so shocked by Cawthorn’s alleged revelations about their party,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet. Cawthorn responded by talking about the “sexual perversion that goes on in Washington” and suggested that he had been invited to an “orgy” by an unnamed lawmaker. “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. And it’s like, this is wild,” he said.