Talking About Cocaine And Orgies Is The GOP’s Red Line
“I look at a lot of these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life ― I’ve always paid attention to politics,” Cawthorn said in the episode. “Then all of a sudden, you get invited to, ‘Oh, hey, we’re going to have a sexual get-together at one of our homes, you should come.’”
“Then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy,” Cawthorn said.
Rep. Madison Cawthorn got a talking-to from Republican leaders for comments about certain unnamed officials that they dubbed “exaggerated.”
“You can’t make statements like that as a member of Congress. It affects everybody else, and the country as a whole,” the House minority leader told Politico reporter Olivia Beavers.
The suggestion that conservative D.C. elites might attend sex parties and use illicit drugs has inspired more sweaty hand-wringing from the GOP than when some Republicans attended a white nationalist conference just last month.
It took three days for Republican Party leadership to criticize Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona for participating in the America First Political Action Conference ― an event so controversial that its organizers could not announce its location beforehand. Gosar appeared at the same conference last year.
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