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@thehill Rep. Kevin McCarthy: "The riot on Jan. 6th was wrong. Any violence on that day should be punished. But make no mistake, the Democrats' response is also wrong. For 15 months, Democrats have used Jan. 6th as a blank check to trample on civil rights and congressional norms."

In a statement Friday, Cawthorn, R-N.C., didn't walk back his recent comments but tried to distinguish that he wasn't talking specifically about his fellow GOP lawmakers. "Corruption and unethical activities exist in Washington," Cawthorn, 26, said in a statement first obtained by Fox News Digital. "It’s an indisputable fact. If you don't think that's true, you've not witnessed the Swamp. "My comments on a recent podcast appearance calling out corruption have been used by the left and the media to disparage my Republican colleagues and falsely insinuate their involvement in illicit activities." In a recent interview for the "Warrior Poet...

Cawthorn will be one of the guest speakers at Trump's April 9 rally in Selma, North Carolina, the former president's Save America PAC said.

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. [CUT] The controversial comments set off 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. “There’s a lot of different things that can happen,” McCarthy told Axios Wednesday. “I just told him he’s lost my trust, he’s gonna have to earn it back, and I laid out everything I find is unbecoming. And, you can’t just say...

Famous DC insider Roger Stone, known for his own wild escapades, confirms GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s report of drug-fueled sex orgies of Republican and Democrat elites.

Kevin McCarthy and his roommate, anti-Trumper Frank Luntz Earlier this week the Pelosi family bought $2 million in Tesla stock. This was also at the same time Democrats were pushing their green energy spending. The stock jumped 8% the next week and Tesla announced another stock split on Monday. Those Pelosis sure know how to play the market! Nancy Pelosi buys 2 million in Tesla stock and jumps 8% today It’s almost like she knows something the rest of us doesn’t — Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) March 28, 2022 TRENDING: JUST IN: Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich Refers Criminal Action Against...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn has not pulled back his claims about witnessing cocaine, orgies, and 'perversion' in Washington DC, according to longtime Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone. Stone – who got his own first-hand look at the city's club underworld in the 1990s – says he got the information from Cawthorn himself. He says the 26-year old North Carolina lawmaker did not walk back his extraordinary claims after being called on the carpet by House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy. “Congressman Madison Cawthorn just told me (he) has NOT retracted his claims about drug fueled orgies among DC elites,” Stone posted...

the allegations Cawthorn had made during a podcast interview last week were "exaggerated," [cut] "In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Then when he comes in he tells me — he says he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage from 100 yards away," McCarthy told reporters.

GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had a stern talk with freshman Madison Cawthorn over his cocaine and orgy allegations. ........... McCarthy threatened Madison Cawthorn and said there will be consequences if he doesn’t turn his life around. According to reports, Cawthorn told McCarthy that his orgy and cocaine allegations were ‘exaggerated/untrue.’

House Republicans are calling for President Joe Biden to provide military aircraft to Ukraine, so they can establish a no-fly zone on their own. In a press conference after hearing from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said their is bipartisan support for sending fighter jets to Ukraine.McCarthy and Republicans also praised Zelensky and the Ukrainian people while highlighting their resistance to Russian aggression. GOP lawmakers called for Biden to impose more sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime.House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) also spoke, calling on Biden to step up and take away...

The U.S. needs to boost oil production to replace banned Russian crude instead of possibly looking to Iran or Venezuela, Rep. Kevin McCarthy told CNBC Wednesday. "Why would you take the billions of dollars you provide to [Russian president Vladmir Putin] and just give it to another dictator?," the House GOP leader said. McCarthy also suggested the U.S. could and should become a top global supplier of oil.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that he believes the Biden administration is trying “to bring Iranian oil back in” with the Iran deal negotiations. McCarthy said, [relevant remarks begin around 2:30] “I just sent a letter to Secretary Blinken about the Iran agreement. What I believe they’re really trying to do — and why don’t we know what’s in it, but we have Russia and China knowing what’s in it — to bring Iranian oil back in. Why would you fund another country that funds terrorism,...

House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., explained on Sunday the two reasons he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he described as "reckless, evil and dangerous," has raised the alert status for his nuclear forces to "special regime of combat duty" as Russia continues to invade Ukraine

Republican Wyoming Sen. Majority Leader Ogden Driskill says he does not intend to endorse GOP Rep. Liz Cheney or her Republican challenger in the upcoming primary race, The Daily Wire has learned. “I’ll be in a race of my own that’s difficult,” Driskill told The Daily Wire in an interview. “I’ve been known for doing endorsements. At this point, I’m just focused on what my future is. I’m sitting on the sidelines and just going to watch the other races go on.” Driskill, who said he supports “most of” former President Donald Trump’s policies since they were “good for business,”...

House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made history on Thursday by endorsing Rep. Liz Cheney’s primary opponent to represent Wyoming, attorney Harriet Hageman. “After spending time with Harriet, it is readily apparent she will always listen and prioritize the needs of her local communities and is focused on tackling our nation’s biggest problems,” McCarthy told The Federalist. “I look forward to serving with Harriet for years to come.” The endorsement from the party’s top lawmaker in the lower chamber comes after a long string of Cheney attacks on her colleagues and even her own constituents, resulting in numerous censures and...

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has conceded that January 6th was a 'violent insurrection,' saying he agreed with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's description of that day. 'No one would disagree with that,' McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. His clarification comes after McCarthy was mocked by Democrats for walking away from an ABC News reporter who was asking him about the Republican National Committee censure of Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney for serving on the committee investigating the insurrection.

A Republican National Committee member and former Trump adviser is asking the party to vote Thursday on a resolution demanding that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy expel Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger from the House GOP conference for their participation on the Democrats' Jan. 6 investigation committee. Cheney, of Wyoming, and Kinzinger, of Illinois, two vocal critics of former President Donald Trump inside his own party, agreed to join the Jan. 6 committee on their own after McCarthy was denied the right to pick Republicans to serve on the panel. They have since become outcasts from much of their...

Paging Sigmund Freud: STAT! Sick Steve Schmidt needs help! Friday afternoon on his friend Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC shot Deadline: White House, the former McCain presidential campaign head-turned-Trump-hating liberal and co-found of the disgraced Lincoln Project indulged a sick fantasy about House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Describing the House GOP leader as "among the most villainous figures that have been in the history of the American republic," sick Schmidt fantasized McCarthy handcuffed, and locked in a basement!Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

WASHINGTON, DC – House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy laid out for Breitbart News in an exclusive long-form video interview the core of the GOP message and strategy heading into the 2022 midterm elections, which will determine which party controls Congress ahead of the 2024 presidential election. McCarthy’s “Commitment to America,” which he previewed in the latest On The Hill video special taped in December at an Eastern Market establishment on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, is what he framed up as the contrast with Democrat policies that have harmed America over the past year since President Joe Biden and his...

There are now 23 Democrats who won't seek reelection in the 2022 midterms as Representative Albio Sires from New Jersey plans to retire and party leadership desperately grips their slim majority in the House.... ...With a series of upcoming retirements, Democrats' majority in the House looks increasingly vulnerable, and Pelosi can only afford to lose three seats in order to keep her party in power.... [list of the 23 at link]