American Conservative PAC chairman Matt Schlapp, who agreed to a $480,000 settlement to resolve a sexual-harrassment suit filed by a Republican aide last year, is facing a fresh same-sex harassment allegation from an incident at a Northern Virginia bar over the weekend.
According to reporting by journalist Yashar Ali, Schlapp closely followed a group of men at the bar for over an hour, and when one of the men asked him to leave, Schlapp “grabbed and gripped his genitals while looking him directly in the eyes.”
“Every time I looked around, whether we were on the dance floor, at the bar, or back at the table talking to people, every time I turned around, this guy was right there, one foot behind me. And I was just not comfortable with this,” the alleged victim told Ali, who wrote that he spoke with several other witnesses and reviewed video footage and photos that confirm Schlapp was at the bar that night.
The manager escorted Schlapp out of the establishment after the victim reported the incident, but Schlapp later returned to the bar, where there was a “heated confrontation,” Ali reported.
Schlapp is the head of a conservative DC-based lobbying firm and a Fox News contributor, and his wife, Mercedes, was the director of strategic communications in the first Trump administration.
This latest incident should be a fun topic of conversation at next week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, of which Matt Schlapp serves as the chair.
The annual CPAC event begins on Feb. 19.
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