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CNN reveals more texts from campaign staffer who alleges CPAC honcho 'fondled' him without consent [1]
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Date: 2023-01-12
It is important to note here that the reason this is news is not because Schlapp may be a philanderer or might be gay or bisexual. This is a story because of how vociferously anti-LBGTQ Schlapp and his political party is. It is even more important to note here that one of the most insidious angles taken by Schlapp and others over the past year is to attack an even more marginalized group of children, trans and nonbinary identifying kids, with the umbrella statement that the entire movement is one created by sexually deviant adults who are trying to groom younger people for sexy-time stuff.
Here’s Schlapp’s wife, Mercedes, on Wednesday, a week after the allegations became public.
x The best
https://t.co/2YJQ1vc12l — Mercedes Schlapp (@mercedesschlapp) January 11, 2023
You get it? A story comes out that gas stoves might be bad for children’s health and conservatives freak out and return to the only joke they have: “People telling me to call them by names and pronouns they prefer stresses me out!” You see, according to conservatives like the Schlapps, the changing of one’s pronouns is both so silly it is absurd, and it is also the secret plot of blood-drinking baby molesters! Who says hypocrites can’t have it all?
According to CNN, who has reviewed more of the alleged victim’s text exchanges, there is definitely more fire here than smoke. In the first exchange, the staffer is texting Schlapp the following morning to inform him that he will no longer be driving him around.
STAFFER: I did want to say I was uncomfortable with what happened last night. The campaign does have a driver who is available to get you to Macon and back to the airport.
According to phone logs that CNN reviewed, Schlapp attempts calling the staffer “a couple of times,” but the staffer does not pick up those calls. And then a couple of hours later Schlapp texts back to the staffer writing:
SCHLAPP: If you could see it in your heart to call me at the end of the day. I would appreciate it. If not I wish you luck on the campaign and hope you keep up the good work.
Another set of text messages that CNN reviewed were between the staffer and a political acquaintance of his exchanged the same night as the alleged incident, with whom the staffer was commiserating about what transpired.
STAFFER: He’s pissed I didn’t follow him to his hotel room. ACQUAINTANCE: I’m so sorry man ACQUAINTANCE: What a f***ing creep STAFFER: I just don’t know how to say it to my superiors thst heir surrogate fondled my junk without my consent
Here’s the video covering these new texts.
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