“There are a lot of different things that can happen,” McCarthy told Politico after a meeting with the first-year lawmaker. “But I just told him he lost my confidence. You have to win it back. I mean, it has upset a lot of members. “ Last week, Cawthorn, a Big Lie supporter, appeared on the Warrior Poet Society podcast, a show hosted by NRA trainer John Lovell, and claimed to have seen all sorts of “sexual perversions” in Washington. When Lovell asked Cawthorn to compare the Kevin Spacey House of Cards series to real life as a member of Congress, the 26-year-old Republican said: , hey, we’re going to have a sexual encounter in one of our homes. You should come there, like, what did you ask me to do? And then you realize that they are asking you to come to an orgy. “Or the fact that there are some people who are leading the movement to try to eradicate addiction in our country and then watch them do a major cocaine strike right in front of you and it’s like, Wow, that’s wild,” he continued. The remarks caused a stir among many lawmakers, and McCarthy confronted Cowthorn during the meeting Wednesday, according to CNN reporter on Capitol Hill Melania Zanona. “You can not make such statements as a member of Congress, it affects everyone else and the country as a whole,” McCarthy told Politico, suggesting that Cawthorn may not have been completely honest about what he claims he observed closely. Maybe Cawthorn “thinks he may have seen an employee in a parking garage maybe 100 meters away,” McCarthy told the agency, saying Cawthorn “does not know what cocaine is.” “It’s just frustrating,” he said. “There is no evidence behind his statements.” McCarthy later told CNN that Cawthorn admitted that he “either exaggerated or fabricated” the story. “He did not tell the truth,” McCarthy was angry. “This is unacceptable”. Minority House Steve Scalise (R-LA) was also in the room Wednesday and told Politico that he and McCarthy told Cawthorn that “they are really worried about some of the things he did recently. And obviously, the ball is in his court in terms of how to respond. “ On Tuesday, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) called Cawthorn “shameful.” Shortly before indifferently circulating the story of the “coca orgies”, Cawthorn was summoned by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for describing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “tramp.” He is currently facing misdemeanor charges, having been arrested for driving for the second time in five years. Last year, more than two dozen former Cawthorn college classmates described multiple cases of alleged sexual harassment by a future lawmaker while attending a small Christian school in Virginia.
