Apparently Matt Schlapp Tried To Banish Satanic Spirits From CPAC Office

A foul presence was haunting the CPAC office — and it wasn’t the organization’s chairman, Matt Schlapp. Schlapp believed Satan himself had to be driven from the premises, according to a new report from The Daily Beast.

Per the Beast, Schlapp called in a Catholic priest to conduct an exorcism of CPAC’s Alexandria office after complaints about staff treatment and inadequate pay led to a mass resignation of staffers in 2022.

The priest reportedly doused the place — and any employees he encountered — with holy water, and placed medallions depicting Saint Benedict, the patron saint of exorcism, above the doors.

It was “the weirdest thing I’d seen,” one person who witnessed the ritual said.

“As the priest made his way through the office, spritzing holy water room to room, employees nudged him towards Matt’s office,” another source told the Beast. “The way he had treated junior employees, it seemed to us like he was the one who needed it the most.”

Schlapp responded to the report on X, the website formerly know as Twitter: “Look out Beasts of the swamp you think my God is fake but I think your news is fake…. I’ll take those odds.”

Mercedes Schlapp, Matt’s wife and a veteran of the George W. Bush and Trump White Houses, offered her own response on X, suggesting that the ritual was a “blessing,” rather than an exorcism.

Whether Satanic forces are to blame or not, CPAC has certainly been plagued by scandal recently.

In January, Republican strategist Carlton Huffman sued Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes, alleging that Matt Schlapp had committed sexual battery when he “reached in between [his] legs and fondled” him in a “sustained and unwanted and unsolicited” manner and, later, that Schlapp defamed him. At the time, Huffman was working as a staffer for Herschel Walker’s unsuccessful campaign for the Senate, and had been assigned to drive Schlapp to and from events. Schlapp denied the allegations made against him.

But the accusations against Schlapp caused a ruckus within CPAC, including the resignation-in-protest of the committee’s vice chair and calls for further investigation into allegations that Schlapp had previously harassed two other young men — one during a CPAC business trip.

Schlapp is now reportedly employing more secular methods in an attempt to purge his problems. On Monday, the Daily Beast reported that Schlapp had made a back-door “low six-figure” settlement offer to Huffman, to no avail.

The Schlapp’s handling of the lawsuit appears to have CPAC’s management on edge: A previous investigation by Intelligencer found that members of the American Conservative Union, CPAC’s parent organization, were concerned that Schlapp was exploiting the organization’s donor pool to raise money for his own legal defense. According to the the Beast, there is a widespread understanding within the ACU that they may soon join Schlapp as a named defendant in Huffman’s lawsuit.

It might be time for an exorcism in the ACU — and not necessarily a religious one.

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