“Mr Prime Minister, if you mess with Amb Tom Rose, you mess with all of us. And please stop using lawfare to shut us down,” Matt Schlapp, head of CPAC, addressed Donald Tusk. This is another American voice following the Polish prime minister’s post.
The U.S. side’s decision to suspend contacts with the Marshal of the Sejm, Włodzimierz Czarzasty, triggered an exchange of posts between Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Ambassador Tom Rose.
In response to the Polish head of government’s remark about an alliance in which respect should prevail, Rose replied: “I’m assuming your thoughtful and well-articulated message was sent to me by mistake, because surely you intended it for the Speaker of the Sejm, Włodzimierz Czarzasty.”
Matt Schlapp, head of the world’s largest conservative organization, CPAC, reacted more sharply to Tusk’s post.
“Mr Prime Minister, if you mess with Amb Tom Rose, you mess with all of us. And please stop using lawfare to shut us down,”
he wrote to the Polish prime minister.
Schlapp referred to actions by the Polish prosecutor’s office, which last year launched a surprising investigation into the organization of a CPAC conference by TV Republika. As Niezależna.pl reported, investigators demanded from the station, among other things, the full list of approximately 1,000 participants of CPAC Poland, which took place in Jasionka near Rzeszów.
These actions by prosecutors were commented on at the time by Tomasz Sakiewicz, president of TV Republika.
“The level of madness of the current authorities, and particularly the justice system, has surpassed its peak. The desire to question invited guests by the prosecutor’s office shows that they have no idea of the scale of the event that took place in Rzeszów. Representatives of the largest conservative organization in the United States, CPAC, were there, led by Matt Schlapp, the equivalent of the Polish minister of the interior, Kris Noem, as well as leading figures from the conservative world, including from Germany, for example, the former head of German intelligence. There were also guests from Japan who want to establish a similar organization there. There was no region of Poland or the Western world whose representatives were not hosted by Podkarpacie at that time,”
said the head of the station.