Representative Madison Cawthorn, the 26-year-old who represents North Carolina’s 11th district in Congress, says that people he has long admired in politics have invited him to orgies and snorted cocaine in front of him. He also says the media blackmail politicians.
The allegations surfaced in an interview with John Lovell of Patriot Takes, a leftist Twitter account that attacks Republicans and conservatives, and is “anonymously run,” as The Atlantic put it.
Cawthorn’s accusations about sex and drugs undoubtedly delighted the Left. And as Patriot Takes tweeted after the interview, he exposed Republicans as hypocrites.
Sex And Drugs
“Madison Cawthorn affirms Washington DC is like the movie House of Cards and said people that he’s looked up his whole life who are now in their 60’s or 70’s have invited him to an orgy at their home and others have done cocaine in front of him,” Patriot Takes tweeted over a clip of the interview.
Lovell opened the interview with a discussion of House of Cards, the preposterous program about a fictional Democrat Majority Whip, Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey. Underwood uses sex with a reporter, whom he throws in front of a Metro train, to boost his political fortunes and sabotage political enemies. He destroys or murders anyone who impedes his march to the White House. The program features frank sex and, after Underwood lands in the White House, even a threesome between Underwood, his wife, Claire, and a Secret Service agent.
After describing the program, Lovell asked how true to the life the program was. “Is it that bad?” he asked
“I heard a former president that we had in the 90s was asked the question about this, and he gave an answer that I thought was so true, and he said the only thing that’s not accurate in that show is that you could never get a piece of legislation about education passed that quickly.” Cawthorn responded:
Aside from that, the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean it, being kind of a young guy in Washington — with the average age of probably 60 or 70 — and I look at all these people, a lot of them that I, you know, I’ve looked up to through my life. I’ve always paid attention to politics guys that, you know, then all of a 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.” And I’m like, “what did you just ask me to come to?” And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy.”
Cawthorn also revealed that he knew politicians who sniffed cocaine.
“Some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and then you watch them doing, you know, a key bump of cocaine right in front of you,” Cawthorn continued. “And it’s like, this is, this is wild.”
In a fundraising pitch that will gather donations through the leftist money machine Act Blue, Patriot Takes explained that “Madison Cawthorn grew up as a Republican and basically just outed the hypocrisy of his Republican colleagues.”
Cawthorn didn’t mention Republicans, but that small fact aside, he also claimed that unscrupulous reporters blackmail politicians. If a politician takes a position the media oppose, they pull a negative story off the shelf to keep him in line.
“And then there’s also kinda the whole espionage aspect of what goes in Washington,” Cawthorn began:
So many people trade in secrets and there’s a currency to secrets. And so, it’s wild. And then, you know, there’s members of the media, the journalists, who kinda will keep nasty stories about you or about other people on a shelf. And then, if you’re about to kind of speak out against something they don’t want you to, they’ll come out and say, “well, we’re about to drop this story of when 17 years ago, you did X,Y, and Z, and you don’t want us to drop that story, do you, so we’re gonna bully you back into this position.”
Trouble With the Truth
Taking Cawthorn at face value might not be wise, at least for the leftists overjoyed about the interview.
A major exposé of Cawthron in The Washington Post showed that Cawthorn — like Joe Biden in speaking of his son’s laptop — has a strained relationship with the truth.
Partially paralyzed in a car crash in 2012, Cawthorn has said the driver left him to die, that he was “declared dead,” and that were it not for the wreck, he would have attended the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis.
In fact, doctors had not declared him dead. Nor did his friend leave him to die; he pulled him from the car. The academy rejected him before the crash.
Perhaps he put one over on leftist Patriot Takes.
Hat tip: The Daily Caller
