REPORT: CPAC Threatened To Out Stage Designer

Mediaite reports:

Mediaite has learned that this week, CPAC brass, fuming over the media’s coverage of the stage, threatened to out the stage company to the media.

Sources said Design Foundry was told by ACU general counsel David Safavian and other ACU brass on a Monday afternoon call that if it didn’t release a statement by 10 a.m. Tuesday copping to the stage design, ACU would release their own statement blaming the firm.

Safavian, who is fresh from a pardon courtesy of President Donald Trump for a 2005 arrest, also threatened to take legal action against the stage company, sources said.

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CPAC Engaged in Bitter Behind-the-Scenes Feud With Company Behind Its Controversial Stage https://t.co/DW2q7QPmTy

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 3, 2021

Exclusive: Design Foundry, a Maryland-based design firm, has taken responsibility for the design of the CPAC stage that resembled a Nazi insignia.

The firm says it ‘had no idea’ that the stage resembled a Nazi symbol https://t.co/wvtNUBruLm

— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) March 3, 2021

Last week I tweeted & asked for an independent reporter to clear up the CPAC stage issue. 1) the stage resembled a Nazi symbol (not disputed). 2) it’s clear from @yashar’s reporting that the stage designer had NO IDEA about the symbol. Please do not attack her. Let’s move on. https://t.co/98f8tBFg2U

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) March 3, 2021