A new piece by the Washington Post’s Ben Terris on Senator Tim Scott’s weird excuses for not sharing just maybe a little bit more details about his supposed “girlfriend” to allay the far more demented “concerns” from GOP donors includes this gem of a quote from closeted, rapey CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp from early 2022, before Schalpp’s own proclivities became widely known:

“You think [Trump] picks a gay vice president?” Schlapp asked Terris in response to a question about reports that fat Donald was eyeing Scott as a potential running mate in 2024. Terris doesn’t elaborate further and, again, this was about a year before the first allegations of dick grabbing against Schlapp so Terris had no reason at the time to have asked if maybe Schlapp knows something we don’t. For his part however Terris doesn’t seem to be under that impression, writing that the GOP’s “rumor mill is lazy, and the ‘joke’ about the senator’s sexuality still gets repeated.”

Still, Terris correctly assesses how freaking weird all this girlfriend situation is in this day and age of politicians’ partners and families being so closely linked with their brands – particularly with conservatives – writing Scott “wouldn’t tell me her name, and the campaign declined to make her available to chat, even off the record. Technically I can’t verify that she exists, except to note that for a presidential campaign to essentially reverse-catfish America would be insane.”