Tag Archives: Matt Schlapp

“There’s also a funny little secret I learned, Stuart. I’m new to this as an outsider, one of the things you see as an outsider is how corrupt this system is. “You know something funny about this, I’ve attended CPAC before, I didn’t know it works this way. A consultant calls my campaign shortly after I declared and says ‘Hey, …

CNN’s Daniel Dale has a partial list. Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia repeated a debunked claim about Zelensky. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country. Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: “Fake journalists,” Schlapp said in a recent interview, are “pushing this leftist agenda and lying, and I’m a victim of that, right? This media will take any charge and run with it if they can destroy a Republican or a Trump supporter or conservative. That’s what we have in this country.” Schlapp, who is …

The Washington Post reports: As Schlapp rebuffs the allegation by a former staffer from Herschel Walker’s Georgia Senate campaign, who says he groped him during an Atlanta trip last fall, dozens of current and former employees and board members interviewed by The Washington Post described a wider range of complaints about the longtime Republican power broker and CPAC’s culture under …

The Daily Beast reports: Days ahead of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, it remains to be seen if and how Fox News will cover the annual right-wing confab amid CPAC boss Matt Schlapp’s alleged groping scandal. As of publication, Schlapp and his annual convention have all but disappeared from the Fox News universe. None of Fox News Media’s outlets …

ABC News reports: Former Vice President Mike Pence has declined an invitation to the Conservative Political Action Conference, sources told ABC News. The decision by Pence, who is debating a 2024 presidential run, comes as other notable figures are absent from this year’s lineup. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who spoke at CPAC last year, has two events scheduled in Texas …

The Washington Examiner reports: Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has agreed to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in March, a major get for the chairman Matt Schlapp. Bolsonaro, often dubbed the Donald Trump of South America, could lay out his plans to return to power in a campaign against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won …

The Daily Beast reports: Greeting the Schlapps on Tuesday night, Newsmax host Jenn Pellegrino gushed over the smiling pair. “As we discussed at the top of the interview here, the two of you work together. You have been married for 20 years. I think a lot of people are wondering: what’s the secret?” After the pair both turned to each …

The Daily Beast reports: According to court documents filed on Thursday, the legal team of conservative icon Matt Schlapp has formally denied that he committed sexual battery against a former Herschel Walker campaign staffer who has accused the CPAC chair of groping his crotch against his will—and he’s asking the court to name the accuser. Media reports have omitted the …

“CPAC is going to get more and more activists engaged in the fight on these things. And it’s not just what happens on the mainstage, it’s every news outlet is there, although Steve, I do want to break some news. “We’ve decided to go a little bit Hungarian on the left-wing, I don’t want to call it press or media …

Politico reports: The Republican staffer who accused conservative stalwart Matt Schlapp of sexual assault and filed a lawsuit against him for nearly $10 million has filed a separate suit against another top GOP operative alleging defamation. Caroline Wren, who most recently ran Harmeet Dhillon’s campaign for RNC chair and Kari Lake’s run for governor, was sued Tuesday in D.C.’s federal …

Media Matters reports: Frequent Fox News guests Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes have disappeared from Fox’s airwaves in the two weeks since The Daily Beast published a January 5 story about a GOP staffer who said that Matt, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, “fondled” his crotch. Although FoxNews.com has published one article about the accusation, the Schlapps …

Welp, here’s an instant update to the post below this one: Matt Schlapp, the head of one of the nation’s largest conservative advocacy groups and an adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, was accused in a lawsuit on Tuesday of groping an employee on Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign in October. The lawsuit, filed in the Virginia Circuit Court in …

“This anonymous complaint demonstrates the accuser’s real agenda, working in concert with Daily Beast to attack and harm the Schlapp family. “The complaint is false, and the Schlapp family is suffering unbearable pain and stress due to the false allegation from an anonymous individual. “No family should have to go through this and the Schlapps and their legal team as …

CNN reports: CNN reviewed a text exchange between the staffer and a friend in politics, where the staffer is clearly upset and wondering how to tell the campaign that one of their surrogates had allegedly assaulted him. The exchange is being made public for the first time. “He’s pissed I didn’t follow him to his hotel room,” the staffer wrote. …

The Daily Beast reports: Herschel Walker’s son is calling for the resignation of CPAC’s Matt Schlapp following allegations that Schlapp groped a campaign staffer for the Republican candidate. “Typical predator,” Christian Walker said in a video Saturday. “Preys on this poor little staffer who’s just trying to work his way up in Republican politics, then gets assaulted by one of …

NBC News reports: On Friday evening, after this story was published, two ACU board members issued a statement standing by Schlapp. “We stand squarely behind Matt Schlapp, and the ACU Board of Directors has full confidence in his leadership of the organization,” said Charlie Gerow and Carolyn Meadows, the first and second vice chairs of the board. “We have both …

NBC News reports: Matt Schlapp, one of the nation’s most prominent conservative leaders and a top ally of former President Donald Trump, is being accused of sexually groping a male aide on Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign in October. “He reached in between my legs and fondled me,” the former Walker staffer told NBC News in a telephone interview …

The Daily Beast reports: A staffer for Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign has alleged to The Daily Beast that longtime Republican activist Matt Schlapp made “sustained and unwanted and unsolicited” sexual contact with him while the staffer was driving Schlapp back from an Atlanta bar this October. The staffer said the incident occurred the night of Oct. 19, when Schlapp, chair …

Mediaite reports: The CPAC Twitter account earned outrage after tweeting — and quickly deleting — a message referring to “Ukraine-occupied territories” and referring to President Joe Biden’s “gift-giving” to the country as it deals with an invasion from Russia. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton blasted the outrage stemming from the tweet, but did acknowledge it was “awkwardly-worded.” Radio host Erick …