Seth Meyers on the Madison Cawthorn cocaine-orgy scandal: “This is exactly what they deserve, because it’s not like Republican members of Congress can just say, ‘That’s a crazy conspiracy theory,’ when so many of them ran on crazy conspiracy theories.”
“This is, suffice it to say, one of the weirdest political scandals in recent memory,” saidMeyers was, of course, referring to how Republican congressman Madison Cawthorn “casually accused his colleagues of inviting him to orgies and doing cocaine.”
Wearing a backwards baseball cap and T-shirt with the words “Warrior Poet” emblazoned across the chest, Cawthorn said during an interview, “The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington—I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington… I look at a lot of these people, a lot of them I’ve looked up to through my life—I’ve always paid attention to politics… then all of a sudden, you get invited to, ‘Well, hey, we’re gonna have a sexual get-together at one of our homes.
“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 on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country, and you watch them do a key-bump of cocaine in front of you.” “One thing is for sure: Cawthorn is the first dude with a backwards baseball cap who calls it a ‘sexual get-together.’ Did you accidentally time-travel to a 1970s swinger party?” cracked Meyers, adding, “Just say orgy. That’s gross too, but at least when you say it, it gets over faster.”
The comments attracted the attention of House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who dressed down Cawthorn in a closed-door meeting, calling his behavior “embarrassing” and “unbecoming.”, “Cawthorn clarified that multiple members were not involved in orgies but did maintain that one member of Congress invited him to a sex party with his wife. Despite McCarthy and others in the room pressing him to reveal a name, Cawthorn refused, this Republican said.
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