CPAC’s Matt Schlapp cleared in assault case, accuser apologizes
By
Paul Bedard
March 26, 2024 2:27 pm
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The Republican political activist who accused Conservative Political Action Conference Chairman Matt Schlapp of sexual assault has dropped his case, clearing the influential conservative.
Carlton Huffman, 40, had charged without proof that Schlapp groped him during a 2022 election trip while the accuser was working for Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign in Georgia.
He sought to pursue $9 million in a lawsuit anonymously, but a judge said he couldn’t. Last year, he revealed himself.
But today he dropped his case, according to a statement provided to Mark Corallo, Schlapp’s representative.
“I am discontinuing all of my lawsuits. The claims made in my lawsuits were the result of a complete misunderstanding, and I regret that the lawsuit caused pain to the Schlapp family,” Huffman said. “The Schlapps have advised that the statements made about me were the result of a misunderstanding, which was regrettable. Neither the Schlapps nor the [American Conservative Union] paid me anything to dismiss my claims against them.”
After making his claims against Schlapp, two women accused Huffman of assault.
Schlapp, a father of five daughters and married to political adviser Mercedes Schlapp, vehemently denied the charges from the beginning.
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