A Tennessee Congressman warns that fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives have been lured into honeytraps with sex workers and drugs changing the way they vote, he said this week.
“If it's women, drugs, booze, it will find you in D.C. and in most elected offices,” Rep. Tim Burchett told podcaster Benny Johnson. “That’s what people, power and influence do.”
As Burchett tells it, Republicans aren’t backing important efforts, such as Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s crusade for Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs, because they’re being bullied by big backers and Russians.
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“The Russians do that and I'm sure members of Congress have been caught up,” Burchett declares. “Why in the world would good conservatives vote for crazy stuff like what we've been seeing?”
Burchett then explains what he’s learned over decades of experience of holding elected offices in Tennessee and in Washington: how it works.
“You're out of the country, or out of town, or you're in a motel or at a bar,” says Burchett, setting the scene.
“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.”
Cut to:
"Next thing you know, you're in the motel room, with them, naked,” says Burchett.
Another cut to takes us back Congress:
“Some well-dressed person comes up, whispers in your ear, 'Hey man, there's tapes out on you,’” Burchett explains. Then they say, “You really ought not to be voting for this thing.”
This, according to Burchett, is “human nature."
Followers of Johnson’s show professed themselves unsurprised by the state of affairs in D.C., as described by Burchett.
“It’s exactly like LA confidential [sic] but in real life,” wrote UncommonSense.
“Imagine my utter lack of shock,” added Tami Marler.
TheFarceFeed called Burchett's story a “tale as old as time.”
