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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMatt and Mercedes Schlapp Off the Air at Fox News After Groping Allegation
MediaiteThe Daily Beast first reported on Jan. 6 that an unnamed staffer on Herschel Walkers Senate campaign accused Schlapp of groping his crotch non-consensually while the two shared a car in Atlanta last October.
Schlapp, who organizes the influential Conservative Political Action Conference, denied the allegations through his lawyer. The accuser, described by the Times as a longtime Republican political aide, is now suing Schlapp for defamation and conspiracy over the alleged sexual assault.
Since the Beast story broke, Matt and Mercedes, who were regulars on Fox News and Fox Business, have disappeared from the air. Mercedes, who served in former President Donald Trumps White House and on his unsuccessful 2020 campaign, was last on the air the morning of Jan. 6, while Matt hasnt appeared on either network since Jan. 4.
Fox has yet to cover the groping allegation. The network did not respond to a request for comment on the absence of the Schlapps from the air.
Schlapp, who organizes the influential Conservative Political Action Conference, denied the allegations through his lawyer. The accuser, described by the Times as a longtime Republican political aide, is now suing Schlapp for defamation and conspiracy over the alleged sexual assault.
Since the Beast story broke, Matt and Mercedes, who were regulars on Fox News and Fox Business, have disappeared from the air. Mercedes, who served in former President Donald Trumps White House and on his unsuccessful 2020 campaign, was last on the air the morning of Jan. 6, while Matt hasnt appeared on either network since Jan. 4.
Fox has yet to cover the groping allegation. The network did not respond to a request for comment on the absence of the Schlapps from the air.
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Matt and Mercedes Schlapp Off the Air at Fox News After Groping Allegation (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2023
OP
He's come a long way since banging on the glass to stop the count in Florida.
SalamanderSleeps
Jan 2023
#6
efhmc
(14,726 posts)1. The GQP is overflowing with sickos.
Marcuse
(7,487 posts)2. Madison Cawthorn may have been right about one thing.
spanone
(135,844 posts)3. Good.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)4. It's happened . . . Fox has gone all cancel culture and woke
doc03
(35,345 posts)5. He is still head of CPAC? nt
SalamanderSleeps
(584 posts)6. He's come a long way since banging on the glass to stop the count in Florida.
Sleazeballs gonna sleaze.