It looks like anti-LGBTQ congressman Madison Cawthorn‘s weird sex scandal isn’t going away anytime soon.
After House minority leader Kevin McCarthy warned the 26-year-old this week that has “got to turn himself around” following his appearance on the Warrior Poet Society podcast, where he bragged about how he’s been invited to all sorts of cocaine-fueled sex parties in Washington, D.C., GOP Sen. Thom Tillis endorsed Cawthorn’s primary opponent, Chuck Edwards.
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“Unfortunately, Madison Cawthorn has fallen well short of the most basic standards Western North Carolina expects from their representatives, and voters now have several well-qualified candidates to choose from who would be a significant improvement,” Tillis said in a statement yesterday.
“I believe [state Sen.] Chuck Edwards is the best choice,” he added, noting that Edwards “puts his constituents first” and is a “hardworking conservative leader”.
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. pic.twitter.com/iJnWMJ9PIR
— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) March 27, 2022
Cawthorn and Edwards will face off, along with six other candidates, in the May 17 GOP primary to represent the solidly Republican district. Whoever wins the primary is the heavy favorite to win in the November general election.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Several of Cawthorn’s GOP colleagues have denounced his remarks, including Matt Gaetz of all people. Capitol Hill reporter Juliegrace Brufke tweeted yesterday, “Rep. Matt Gaetz tells me ‘I don’t get invited to the same parties Madison Cawthorn does.'”
Rep. Matt Gaetz tells me “I don’t get invited to the same parties Madison Cawthorn does.”
— Juliegrace Brufke (@juliegraceb) March 31, 2022
You know you’ve messed up when the guy who allegedly paid for sex with underage girls won’t even support you.
In fact, the only person who appears to be in Cawthorn’s corner is conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who said on his podcast this week that he, too, has been invited to similar events in the D.C. area.
“I haven’t gone to them,” Jones told Roger Stone, “because I don’t want to be, you know, whatever, blackmailed, or I’m not into that. I’m, you know, happy. But I’ve been invited not just to those, I’ve been invited to the really weird stuff. Not with kids or anything, but with the whole occultic stuff.”
Madison Cawthorn opened the door to this and now alex Jones is walking right through it
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) April 1, 2022
Cawthorn has since tried to walk back the remarks, saying they were “exaggerated” in his meeting with McCarthy. His office, however, has not issued any public comment, although he did retweet an op-ed from the anti-LGBTQ blog The Federalist defending him yesterday.
Here’s what folx on Twitter are saying about the whole thing…
What kind of nasty fucker would invite Madison Cawthorn and Alex Jones to an orgy? GROSS!
— Mayo ??? (@MayoIsSpicyy) April 1, 2022
Interesting that orgygate seems to have really damaged Madison Cawthorn but so many of these Trumpy congresspeople remain completely unscathed by doing far worse.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) April 1, 2022
If you enjoy watching the demise of Madison Cawthorn’s political career, we should be friends.
— Kate ?????? (@ImSpeaking13) March 31, 2022
Madison Cawthorn wants you to forget he voted to overturn the 2020 election.
Voters will never forget.
— Katie Dean (@ElectKatieDean) March 31, 2022
A GOP orgy is similar to any orgy except instead of orgasms the participants fake electors. #OrgyGate
— Buddy Winston (@BuddyWinston) April 1, 2022
I had a Republican today tell me privately that Madison Cawthorn & Marjorie Taylor Greene were “hurting the Republican brand.”
“What about Donald Trump?” I asked him.
He wouldn’t answer.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) March 31, 2022
Madison Cawthorn attacked Zelenskyy. This is not a winning narrative, so the GOP pushed back against him. So Cawthorn exposed their alleged drug orgies. Now the GOP is trying to primary him. Meaning he’ll dish more GOP dirt. Danger of having unhinged loose cannons on your team.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) April 1, 2022
Madison Cawthorn was a Jan 6 insurrectionist
Kevin McCarthy does nothing
He calls for a civil war
McCarthy does nothing
He calls Zelensky an evil thug
McCarthy does nothing
He says Republicans host orgies & snort cocaine
THIS is when Qevin finally lays down the law ?
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) March 30, 2022
After all the outrageous shit Madison Cawthorn has said, the GOP finally turns on him over orgies and cocaine?
Makes you wonder.
— Angry Staffer ? (@Angry_Staffer) March 30, 2022
please stop tweeting that I hang out with madison cawthorn
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) March 29, 2022
I did not expect orgy on the Christian/Republican bingo card. #OrgyGate
— Joy Benson ???? (@Joy_Benson) March 29, 2022
Madison Cawthorn has torn the House GOP apart. Half of the caucus is furious he's exposed their coke orgies. And the other half is furious they weren't invited.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) April 1, 2022
RTG
Matt Gaetz is either jealous or lying.
Mack
Maddie was probably invited because he’s got a “purtty mouth”.
Diplomat
And Mccarthy had the meeting hoping for an invite to show up Maddies tea bagging skills
mateo
Actually, he was invited because they needed a coat hanger.
Diplomat
“give em enough rope and…”
Brian
He’s a conservative Christian who’s using the word “orgy” differently than most people would. I highly doubt he was ever invited to a big party where groups of people were having sex out in the open, or where everyone was having sex with everyone else, or where there was any hint of bisexuality.
However, I do fully believe that some uber-wealthy donor or lobbyist offered to buy him a sex worker. That definitely happens in DC. Either as a bribe or as potential blackmail. The guy is dimwitted and he likes to embellish, so suddenly this story becomes an “orgy.” Not quite true, but not totally false.
Fname Optional Lname
He is definitely not the Conservative Christian he wants the public to believe and they all know exactly what an orgy is. In fact what other kind of orgy would there be? Do Conservative Christians have their own style of orgy where touching elbows is naughty and they get to whisper four letter words?
Den
He is no Christian but simply plays the part (poorly), like most of his buddies and buddettes do. And he is not dimwitted…just not particularly intelligent, not at all sophisticated, and not interersted in telling or even knowing the truth about anything. Very much a modern far-right republican.
ZzBomb
You know the GQP is spiraling the drain when crazy former rep Joe Walsh now looks sane in comparison to the current lot.
greg_atlanta
perhaps he has a bright future in special needs porn
Mr. Stadnick
His brain was in his legs
v6origal97
Republican cocaine fueled sex orgies… who’d have guessed? Probably many, based on their hypocrisy.
Toyota01
I’d certainly invite him to my party…>!!!>>>@>@!!@>
THAT Steve
Insist on a ball gag so him saying stupid things doesn’t distract you.
PubicHairus
You can be the tree.
Max
if it’s a dunking tank party, it’s appropriate.
CNY1983
this explains why “rag, mama, rag” lindsey graham has been so nasty lately. no one in the gop thought he was sexual enough to invite to any “sexual get togethers”.
if youre invited to a “sexual get-together” dont expect any hard dicks, not at a get together, expect “cucumber samwiches” and butt plugs handed out at the door. and there won’t be ANY BALLS around.
and by the way madison, you’ve got your hat on backwards or is that some kind of a cocaine-orgy-signal thing?
Jim
Aw McCarthey and Cawthorn’s GOP colleagues were just upset that they weren’t invited to these cocaine sex parties.
Are were they?
Kangol2
It would only be GQP folks because Cawthorn absolutely despises and has zero to do with Democrats.
He also doubled down on his allegations yesterday, I believe. So who are these coke-snorting, orgy-hosting GQP leaders and supporters in DC? Name names, Cawthorn!
GrizzleyMichael
He had sex, I didn’t know he could get it up
My2CentsWorth
Maybe one of his problems is that he is not able to “get it up”.
muzikguy911
They won’t let Madison join them since he has to wear a strap-on dildo. Maybe him and Matt Geatz could get together. Geatz is like a dog, he’ll screw anything.
Den
“Several of Cawthorn’s GOP colleagues have denounced his remarks, including Matt Gaetz of all people.”
You’d expect Gaetz to be one of the people hosting that sort of thing. His denouncing it is meaningless. By the way, anybody know whatever happened to Gaetz’s “son” Nestor? Funny how he disappeared from the media as suddenly as he appeared.
Den
And none of the usual far right trolls have made an appearance. Kind of puts them in an untenable situation. They either have to throw their idols under the bus or admit that the GOP is the actual bottomless pit of hypocrisy and mendacity they always deny it is.
fredk3
if he’s lucky, he may have a future in fetish porn.