Republican Rep. Tim Burchett claims conservative congressmen are blackmailed after getting drunk with ‘attractive’ stranger and ending up ‘naked in a motel room’

  • In the wild new interview Burchett, R-Tenn., echoed comments made by former Rep. Madison Cawthorn that left him essentially blackmailed by his own party
  • Burchett explained that ‘powerful people’ who ‘write the big checks’ are behind blackmailing schemes to protect their portfolios
  • ‘They know what to get at,’ Burchett said. ‘You know, if it’s women, drugs, booze, it’ll find you’

GOP Rep. Tim Burchett claimed ‘good conservatives‘ are voting for ‘crazy stuff’ in Congress because there are sex tapes on them and they are being blackmailed.

In the wild new interview Burchett, R-Tenn., echoed comments made by former Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C. last year that left him essentially blackmailed by his own party.

Burchett explained that ‘powerful people’ who ‘write the big checks’ are behind blackmailing schemes to protect their portfolios.

‘Why in the world would good conservatives vote for crazy stuff like what we’ve been seeing out of Congress?’ he went on. ‘Here’s how it works:’

‘You’re visiting, you’re out of the country or out of town or you’re in a motel or at a bar in DC and, whatever you’re into – women, men, whatever — comes up and they’re very attractive and they’re laughing at your jokes. And you’re buying them a drink. Next thing you know, you’re in the motel room with them naked.

‘Next thing you know, you know you’re about to make a key vote. And what happens? Some well-dressed person comes out and whispers in your ear, “Hey, man, there’s tapes out on you.” Or, “Were you in a motel room or whatever with whoever?” And then you’re like, “Oh,” and [they] said, “you really ought not be voting for this thing.”’

‘They know what to get at,’ Burchett said of the wealthy Americans who are pulling the strings he had depicted. ‘You know, if it’s women, drugs, booze, it’ll find you.’

Burchett was speaking with podcast host Benny Johnson, who had brought up Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s requests for the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs and client lists to be released only to be met with silence.

The free-wheeling Republican, one of the eight who ousted Kevin McCarthy from the speakership – also claimed Kevin Spacey’s House of Cards was more like a documentary than fiction.

It was just last year in March that Cawthorn had drawn gasps from throughout Congress – and was reprimanded by then-GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy – for claiming he had been invited to cocaine orgies. He later lost a primary.

‘The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington … being kind of a young guy in Washington where the average age is probably 60 or 70, I look at all these people – a lot of them who I’ve looked up to throughout my life … 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,’ like, what did you just ask me to come to? And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy.’

‘There’s some of the people that are leading the movement to try and remove addiction in our country and then you watch them doing, you know, a key bump of cocaine in front of you and it’s like wow, this is wild.’

Burchett’s remarks also come as not one but two sex tape incidents made in the hallowed halls of Congress have been reported.

The first was circulated after being filmed in a Senate hearing room and prompted the firing of a young staffer for Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. Another pair of tapes reportedly triggered an investigation in the office of Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., though no staffer wasa ever conclusively linked to the tapes.

One of the 2022 videos allegedly showed a man pleasuring himself in a House office building, identifiable by standard Capitol House furniture and carpeting, as well as a branded mousepad. A second video shows two men engaged in sexual activity in another office setting. Their faces are not visible.