Matt Schlapp hit with lawsuit related to groping allegation

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A former Herschel Walker campaign staffer has filed a lawsuit against Matt Schlapp, the president of the American Conservative Union, over allegations of sexual abuse.

The lawsuit accuses Schlapp of aggressively fondling the anonymous ex-Walker employee’s genital area in a sustained fashion while Schlapp was being driven to his hotel from an Atlanta-area bar.

Schlapp’s wife, former Trump White House aide Mercedes Schlapp, is also listed as a defendant in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in a court in Alexandria, Va.

The lawsuit further accuses Schlapp and his wife of trying to discredit the male accusers’ allegations after the Daily Beast first reported the allegations earlier this month.

The former Walker campaign staffer is seeking $9.4 million in damages from the Schlapps.

A lawyer for the Schlapps vehemently denied the allegations in Tuesday’s trial, calling them false and an attack on the family.

This anonymous complaint demonstrates the true agenda of the accusers, working in concert with Daily Beast to attack and harm the Schlapp family, attorney Charlie Spies wrote in a statement shared by Matt Schlapp on Twitter on Tuesday.

The lawsuit accuses Schlapp of aggressively and sustainably stroking the genital area of ​​the unnamed ex-Walker employee. AFP via Getty Images/Nelson Almeida A former Herschel Walker campaign staffer has filed a lawsuit against Matt Schlapp.

The complaint is false and the Schlapp family is suffering unbearable pain and stress due to the false allegation by an anonymous individual. No family should ever go through this, and the Schlapps and their legal team are weighing counter-suit options, Spies added.

The former Walker staffer recounted the alleged sexual assault of Matt Schlapp to several media outlets earlier this month.

He said the alleged unwanted and unsolicited sexual touching occurred after a night of drinking at two different bars following a Walker campaign event.

The accuser claims Schlapp inappropriately and repeatedly intruded on his personal space in bars, and when the member of staff, described as a married man in his late 30s, drove the powerful curator back to his hotel , Schlapp put his hand on her leg and stroked her crotch. .

The staff member made contemporaneous video recordings of his reaction to what he called a heartbreaking and humiliating incident, which he shared with the media.

CPAC’s Matt Schlapp grabbed my bric-a-brac and beat it for a long time, and I’m sitting there thinking what’s going on, that this person is literally doing this to me, the staff member says in one of the recordings.

The lawsuit also accuses Schlapp and his wife of trying to discredit the allegations of the male accusers. Bloomberg via Getty Images/Dylan Hollingsworth

In the lawsuit, the former Walker staffer alleges Mercedes Schlapp messaged a neighborhood group chat on January 7 calling the accuser a troubled individual and someone who was fired from several jobs, including for lying on his resume.

The accuser claims that none of Mercedes Schlapps’ allegations are true.

Matt Schlapps American Conservative Union is the organization that hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Committee conference, known as CPAC, which hosts prominent Republican politicians and thought leaders and attracts thousands of attendees each year. The ACU is set to host this year’s CPAC conference March 1-4 in Maryland.

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