Rep. Madison Cawthorn ought to out the guy Republicans he claims invited him to orgies and snorted cocaine in entrance of him, the chief of the conservative Freedom Caucus stated.
Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry stated he plans to talk to caucus member Cawthorn about feedback he made in a podcast likening the Capitol Hill tradition to the Netflix collection “House of Cards.”
“I think it is important, if you’re going to say something like that, to name names,” Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, stated of Cawthorn in an interview with Politico.
The feedback from freshman congressman Cawthorn, 26, have led to options from some throughout the Freedom Caucus that he must be ousted from the group, Politico reported.
Perry wouldn’t say whether or not the caucus would take into account booting Cawthorn if he didn’t identify names or share proof to again up his salacious claims.
“And I haven’t talked to him at all, so I don’t want to predispose the conversation,” Perry stated of the North Carolina lawmaker.
The members of the caucus met Monday evening and their reactions to the feedback have been assorted, the web site states.
Cawthorn mentioned alleged “sexual perversion” of some older lawmakers, together with folks he stated he beforehand regarded as much as, on an episode of the Warrior Poet Society podcast final week.
“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 stated. “And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy.”
He additionally stated he witnessed a lawmaker snort cocaine regardless of having a public anti-addiction stance.
The feedback have additionally led to questions from the broader Home Republican convention. Republican Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy stated Tuesday he additionally deliberate to talk with Cawthorn, after the difficulty was raised at a closed-door GOP assembly earlier within the day.
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