The Herschel Walker campaign aide said the conservative leader groped him without his consent in October.
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Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, has been accused by a staffer of Herschel Walker’s Georgia Senate campaign of “unwanted and unsolicited” sexual contact after a night of drinking.
The alleged incident happened in October as Schlapp and the Republican aide bar-hopped in Atlanta after a Walker campaign event, according to the accuser,
who spoke to the Daily Beast and
NBC News on the condition of anonymity on Friday.
The accuser claims Schlapp inappropriately and repeatedly intruded his personal space at the bars, and when the staffer, described as a married man in his late thirties, drove the powerful conservative back to his hotel, Schlapp put his hand on his leg and “fondled” his crotch.“Matt Schlapp of the CPAC grabbed my junk and pummeled it at length, and I’m sitting there thinking what the hell is going on, that this person is literally doing this to me,” the staffer says in one of the recordings. The staffer said that Schlapp invited him up to his room when the two arrived at his hotel, but he declined and tried to get away as quickly as possible.
The staffer was supposed to drive Schlapp around the morning after the alleged incident but the Walker campaign arranged for a different driver. Schlapp reportedly skipped the event he was supposed to attend the following morning.
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I did want to say I was uncomfortable with what happened last night,” the staffer reportedly texted Schlapp, to which the ACU leader responded, “Pls give me a call.”
When the staffer refused to answer three phone calls from Schlapp, he sent another text, telling him, “If you could see it in your heart to call me at the end of day. I would appreciate it,” followed by another text wishing him “luck on the campaign” and telling him to “keep up the good work.”
