Right-Wing Pundit Aptly Renames CPAC To Highlight Disgraced Chairman And Speakers | EUROtoday

Conservative radio host Erick Erickson on Wednesday stated the “C” in “CPAC” ought to stand for “clown,” noting that the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is led by a person with sexual misconduct allegations in opposition to him — and that isn’t the one downside.

“Two weeks ago, I mentioned the problems with CPAC,” Erickson wrote on X.

He continued, “The head of CPAC, Matt Schlapp, has been accused multiple times of inappropriate sexual behavior towards other men. Undeterred from running the Conservative Political Action Conference, Schlapp has invited Steve Bannon on stage.”

Schlapp is chairman of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. He was accused in 2023 of sexual misconduct by GOP strategist Carlton Huffman, who claimed Schlapp “groped” and “fondled” his groin with out consent, which Schlapp firmly denied.

Huffman ultimately dropped his lawsuit, however Schlapp was beforehand accused of making an attempt to kiss a male CPAC staffer with out consent in 2017 and making undesirable sexual advances on one other individual throughout a 2022 enterprise journey, The Washington Post reported in 2023.

Erickson went on to notice that Bannon, a former aide of President Donald Trump, “was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends” — and tried to rehabilitate the late intercourse offender’s picture with a prolonged softball interview earlier than his obvious suicide behind bars in 2019.

Bannon has additionally instructed voters to “get accommodated” with a 3rd, unconstitutional Trump time period, and stated final yr that he’d care extra about Palantir, the tech firm at the moment streamlining information on U.S. residents for the federal authorities, if a Democrat had been in workplace.

Bannon is prominently talked about within the Epstein information launched by the Department of Justice.

“Now CPAC is announcing Todd Chrisley will be at CPAC,” Erickson wrote Wednesday. “If you don’t know who that guy is, he got sentenced to twelve years in prison for tax evasion and then got pardoned by Donald Trump. Before all that, he was a reality TV star.”

Chrisley and his spouse, Julie Chrisley, rose to fame with the USA Network present “Chrisley Knows Best.” They had been discovered responsible in 2022 of some $30 million in financial institution fraud and tax evasion. Todd was sentenced to 12 years in jail and Julie to seven.

Trump referred to as this “pretty harsh treatment” in 2025 whereas asserting his plan to pardon them.

Erickson, a maybe extra conventional conservative, appeared to argue that even pardoned criminals don’t have any place at CPAC. He concluded Wednesday, “The ‘C’ in CPAC is now best represented by the world [sic] ‘clown’ than as any semblance of a conservative institution.”