Congressman Madison Cawthorn under fire over claims of DC drugs and orgies
Asked if the Netflix hit House of Cards, about amoral Washington politicians and fixers, was anything like reality, Cawthorn said: "The only thing that isn't accurate about that show is that you could never get a piece of legislation about education passed that quickly."
The 26-year-old added: "I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70--you know, I look at all these people, a lot of them that I've looked up to through my life--I've always paid attention to politics.
"Then all of the sudden you get invited to, 'Well, hey, we're going to have kind of a sexual get together at one of our homes, you should come.'
"I'm like 'What did you just ask me to come to?' And then you realise they are asking you to come to an ----."
The Republican also claimed: "You know, some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and then you watch them do, you know, a key bump of cocaine right in front of you and it's like, Wow, this is wild.'"
