“There’s a lot of different things that can happen,” McCarthy told Politico after a sit-down with the freshman lawmaker. “But I just told him he’s lost my trust. He’s going to have to earn it back. I mean, he’s got a lot of members very upset.”
” podcast, a show hosted by NRA instructor John Lovell, and claimed he’d witnessed all sorts of “sexual perversion” in Washington.the 26-year-old Republican said
, “I’ve always paid attention to politics guys that, you know, then all of the sudden you get invited to like, well, hey, we're going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes. You should come there, like, What did you just ask me to come to? And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy.
“Or the fact that there’s some of the people that are leading…the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and then you watch them doing a key bump of cocaine right in front of you and it’s like, Wow, this is wild,” he continued. The remarks caused an uproar among numerous GOPers, and McCarthy confronted Cawthorn during the meeting on Wednesday,“You can’t make statements like that as a member of Congress, it affects everybody else and the country as a whole,” McCarthy told, suggesting that Cawthorn may not have been entirely truthful about what he claims to have observed up close.
Perhaps Cawthorn “thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage maybe 100 yards away,” McCarthy told the outlet, saying that Cawthorn “doesn’t know what cocaine is.”to having “either exaggerated or made up” the story.House Minority Whip Steve Scalise was also in the room on Wednesday and toldthat he and McCarthy told Cawthorn that they have “real concern with some of the things that he’s done recently. And obviously, the ball’s in his court in terms of how to respond.
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