{"id":1412239,"date":"2022-03-31T08:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412239"},"modified":"2022-03-31T08:16:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:16:02","slug":"outrage-over-madison-cawthorn-is-a-distraction-and-republicans-are-taking-the-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outrage-over-madison-cawthorn-is-a-distraction-and-republicans-are-taking-the-bait\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage Over Madison Cawthorn Is A Distraction, And Republicans Are Taking The Bait"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foutrage-over-madison-cawthorn-is-a-distraction-and-republicans-are-taking-the-bait%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50760981772_306eca2a09_k-e1648688701538.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn is capturing flak from his own party this week after claiming Washington D.C. is a sexually obsessed swamp run on cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington, average age is probably 60 or 70,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xEEpnrZgoJU\">said<\/a> Cawthorn on the \u201cWarrior Poet Society\u201d hosted by John Lovell last week.  \u201cI look at a lot of these people, a lot of them that I\u2019ve looked up to through my life\u2014I\u2019ve always paid attention to politics\u2014then all of a sudden you get invited to, \u2018Oh hey we\u2019re going to have a sexual get together at one of our homes, you should come.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old congressman continued raising his voice in falsetto with a shocked expression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018What did you just ask me to come to?\u2019 And then you realize they\u2019re asking you to come to an orgy,\u201d Cawthorn explained. \u201cSome of the people who are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country\u201d snorted \u201ca key bump of cocaine\u201d in front of him. \u201cThis is wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The controversial comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/cawthorn-orgies-freedom-caucus-00021548\">set off <\/a>members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and provoked a meeting between the congressional newcomer and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is weighing further action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of different things that can happen,\u201d McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/cawthorn-mccarthy-orgy-cocaine-exaggerated-e801218d-aa88-4f15-8925-204348711ba0.html\">told<\/a> Axios Wednesday. \u201cI just told him he\u2019s lost my trust, he\u2019s gonna have to earn it back, and I laid out everything I find is unbecoming. And, you can\u2019t just say \u2018You can\u2019t do this again.\u2019 I mean, he\u2019s, he\u2019s got a lot of members very upset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scandal, however, is nothing more than a distraction from Democrats presiding over an increasingly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/dismal-american-workers-throttled-by-inflation-high-on-drugs-and-low-on-life\/\">depressed nation coping<\/a> with severe economic uncertainty with excess sugar, alcohol, and opioids. Meanwhile, as Republicans prepare to discipline Cawthorn, Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell continues to serve on the House Intelligence Committee with access to the nation\u2019s top secrets despite a relationship likely turned romantic with a suspected Chinese spy. <\/p>\n<p>First reported by Axios in December 2020, Swalwell reportedly developed a close rapport with a since-vanished Chinese national named Fang Fang, who placed an intern in the congressman\u2019s office and assisted in fundraising for Swalwell\u2019s 2014 re-election. Fang Fang\u2019s influence on a member of the Intelligence Committee raised enough alarm among officials in the FBI that according to Axios, authorities presented Swalwell a \u201cdefensive briefing\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Although federal officials told Axios that Fang Fang sexually manipulated at least two midwestern mayors in prior years, the question of a romantic relationship with Swalwell remains an open question. The Bay Area representative has <a href=\"https:\/\/v2-9mdnszte.thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/09\/swalwell-refuses-to-disclose-whether-he-had-a-sexual-relationship-with-a-suspect-chinese-spy\/\">refused<\/a> to disclose the intimate details. <\/p>\n<p>After an FBI briefing with congressional leadership, McCarthy declared Swalwell unfit to serve on the Intelligence Committee while Speaker Nancy Pelosi merely walked away from reporters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should not be on Intel,\u201d McCarthy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mccarthy-fbi-swalwell-intel-committee\">said<\/a>\u00a0among his exit. \u201cI just think there are definitely 200 other Democrats that I know could fill that place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times, however, the paper of \u201call the news that\u2019s fit to print,\u201d has refused to ever spill ink on the Swalwell story. The publication\u2019s owners are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/doliaestevez\/2017\/03\/28\/billionaire-carlos-slim-and-chinas-jac-motors-to-manufacture-cars-for-latin-american-market\/?sh=ba3dc996ac8f\">heavily invested<\/a> in Chinese interests. <\/p>\n<p>Cawthorn is a freshman representative who likes attention. Swalwell is on the House Intelligence Committee and his conduct jeopardized national security. The two scandals don\u2019t even compare. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn is capturing flak from his own party this week after claiming Washington D.C. is a sexually obsessed swamp run on cocaine. \u201cThe sexual perversion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}