Conservative activist Matt Schlapp denies sexual battery allegations in new court documents

Prominent conservative activist Matt Schlapp is rejecting claims of sexual attack and desires the male who is implicating him to be openly determined, according to court files submitted Thursday in the claim versus Schlapp and his better half, Mercedes Schlapp.

The files declare the claim, which looks for more than $9 million in damages from the Schlapps, “reeks of gamesmanship and hypocrisy” and state the accuser’s demand to stay confidential “is entirely without reason.”.

The Schlapps state the staffer’s identity must be revealed since they declare that his own track record ought to be questioned, asserting that the staffer can’t “satisfy his problem of revealing unique situations which exceed the general public interest in understanding his name,” according to the files.

” Complainant merely can not continue on his claims of supposed impropriety by the Offenders while protecting from analysis his own previous confessed unpleasant associations with white nationalists and anti-Semites by continuing as a ‘John Doe,'” the files state.

The preliminary grievance stated the staffer, determined just as John Doe, dealt with an “uncommon danger of vindictive physical or psychological damage” if he was called, based upon the Schlapps’ appeal and prominence.

The Schlapps are now being represented by lawyer Benjamin Chew, understood for winning the disparagement case versus star Johnny Depp. The 2022 trial, which saw a jury award Depp $15 million in his claim versus previous better half Amber Heard, ended up being understood for airing numerous individual and intimate information openly.

The initial claim, submitted in January, declares that Schlapp, the president of the American Conservative Union, wrongly fondled the genital location of a male Republican strategist throughout a cars and truck trip back to Schlapp’s hotel in Atlanta in 2015. Schlapp remained in Georgia for Herschel Walker’s Senate project and had actually spoken at an occasion previously in the day. The staffer was designated to drive Schlapp back to his hotel, and to another Walker occasion arranged for the following early morning.

In addition to sexual battery accusations versus Matt Schlapp, the claim likewise implicates both Schlapps of disparagement and conspiracy to challenge the staffer.

The Schlapps’ reaction to the claim rejects all claims of sexual battery and unsuitable touching however confesses to telephone call and text exchanged in between Matt Schlapp and the staffer, which have actually been formerly reported and examined by CNN.

The Schlapps confess to a text in which Matt Schlapp recommends he and the staffer satisfy up for beverages, composing, “I have a supper at 7. Might get a beer after if you wish to sign up with let me understand.” The staffer reacts, “I ‘d take pleasure in that,” according to the files.

The Schlapps likewise confess to a call later on the night of the supposed occurrence, to organize pickup for the following early morning, and a text at 7:26 a.m. from Matt Schlapp to the staffer that stated, “I remain in the lobby,” awaiting the staffer to drive him to the prepared Walker occasion in Macon, Georgia.

CNN formerly reported that after the supposed sexual attack, the staffer alerted Walker project authorities, who informed him not to drive Schlapp in the early morning and to rather provide him the contact number to a regional vehicle service.

The staffer reacted to Schlapp’s text, stating, “I did wish to state I was unpleasant with what took place last night. The project does have a motorist who is readily available to get you to Macon and back to the airport,” and offered the number. The Schlapps confess to this information in the court files and to 3 efforts Matt Schlapp made to call the staffer, which went unanswered.

A number of hours later on, Matt Schlapp texted the staffer, “If you might see it in your heart to call me at the end of day. I would value it. If not I want you luck on the project and hope you maintain the great”– another exchange the Schlapps confess to in the files.

As part of the disparagement count in the initial claim, the grievance declared that Mercedes Schlapp sent out a message to a community group text that smeared the staffer’s character and declared he ‘d been fired from tasks for “lying and resting on his resume.” The Schlapps reject that accusation in their reaction.

The Schlapps are asking for the court dismiss the grievance. An initial hearing on whether the staffer must be determined is set for March 8 in Alexandria Circuit Court in Virginia.