If The Daily Beast really was Satan’s website as CPAC boss Matt Schlapp and his wife claimed I would defintely subscribe, by Hal Brown, MSW

Jun 21, 2024

I read this article in RawStory: Matt Schlapp taunts reporter over layoffs at his publication — and it backfires instantly.

The part that got my attention follows:

Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, have been on a crusade against The Daily Beast ever since it first broke news that a former staffer for failed GOP candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign accused him of grabbing his crotch.

“The Daily Beast is Satan’s publication to persecute Christians and their families,” Mercedes Schlapp declared at one point.

RawStory covered this in August of 2023: ‘Satan’s publication’: Matt and Mercedes Schlapp flip out at The Daily Beast after more allegations emerge.

Excerpt:

Conservative power couple Matt and Mercedes Schlapp on Wednesday lashed out at The Daily Beast a day after the publication claimed that he offered to settle a lawsuit alleging that he committed sexual battery, despite the fact that he has flatly denied all such allegations.

“The Daily Beast is Satan’s publication to persecute Christians and their families,” complained Mercedes Schlapp on Twitter.

Matt Schlapp himself then chimed in and responded, “Soon to start a weekend edition: the Saturday Satan.”

Here’s some background:

In addition to its recent scoop on Schlapp’s purported offer to settle a sexual battery lawsuit, The Daily Beast also first broke the news that Carlton Huffman, a staffer for failed Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign had accused the American Conservative Union chief of grabbing his crotch in the fall of 2022.

Huffman is also not the only person lobbing such allegations against the 55-year-old Schlapp, as the Washington Post reported over the weekend that other sexual misconduct allegations have been leveled against him by two other men who are significantly younger than he is.

“In one incident, a staffer said Schlapp attempted to kiss him while drinking late after a work function in 2017,” the Post reported. “In another incident, Schlapp allegedly made unwanted physical advances on someone else’s employee during a CPAC business trip in Palm Beach, Fla., in early 2022.”

I have so many subscriptions (including, of course RawStory+) that I’ve been reluctant to subscribe to Daily Beast (and I appreciate RS summarizing their subscriber only articles)… this could tempt me to subscribe.

This is the original tweet from Mrs. Schlapp:

More replies to her tweet:

If Satan did have a website The Daily Beast would be the perfect name for it. Assuming, as many Evangelical Christian’s believe, Satan (aka “The Beast”) did exist it I wouldn’t miss reading his Magnificant Malevolence’s morning musings