In this Nov. 8, 2020, file photo, Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, leaves after speaking at a news conference outside the Clark County Election Department in North Las Vegas. Schlapp repeated false claims about voter fraud and Donald Trump winning Nevada in the 2020 election. (AP/John Locher)
Matt Schlapp, the longtime Republican activist who co-chaired the Catholics for Trump campaign group in 2020 and then parroted the former president's lies about a stolen election, is accused of making "sustained and unwanted and unsolicited" sexual advances against a former staffer for Herschel Walker's failed U.S. Senate campaign.
The Daily Beast reported on Jan. 6 that it had interviewed the staffer, a man who alleges that Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and lead organizer for the Conservative Political Action Conference, "groped" and "fondled" his crotch after buying him drinks at Atlanta bars last fall.
The staffer, who was not identified in the story, described Schlapp as behaving inappropriately, not respecting his personal space and telling the staffer that he wanted to spend the evening with him to discuss his future. The Daily Beast article indicated that the staffer presented the outlet with contemporaneous videos, text messages and phone logs to corroborate his account.
Schlapp's attorney, Charlie Spies, issued a prepared statement denying the allegations against Schlapp, calling them false and adding that Schlapp "denies any...
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