Donald Trump has accused Democrats of paying tens of millions of {dollars} to celebrities to endorse Kamala Harris. Among these he accused the Dems of paying are Al Sharpton, who he referred to as a “con artist.”
Taking to Truth Social, the president-elect wrote, “Are the Democrats allowed to pay $11,000,000, $2,000,000, and $500,000 to get the ENDORSEMENT of Beyoncé, Oprah, and Reverend Al? I don’t assume so! Beyoncé didn’t sing, Oprah didn’t do a lot of something (she referred to as it “bills”), and Al is only a third price Con Man. So what’s going on right here??? Totally towards the regulation, and I’ve heard there are numerous others!!!”
It is unclear the place Trump discovered the figures he talked about.
Were celebrities paid to endorse Kamala Harris?
Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey did be part of the vp on her failed presidential marketing campaign path. Back in October, Sharpton, the civil rights chief who hosts MSNBC’s ‘Politics Nation,’ interviewed Harris. Sharpton additionally held a get-out-the-vote rally to spice up Harris’ candidacy. Weeks earlier than the interview, Sharpton’s National Action Network nonprofit obtained $500,000 from the veep, in line with the Washington Free Beacon. MSNBC has mentioned it doesn’t know something in regards to the donation, in line with New York Post.
Winfrey has maintained that she has not been “paid a dime” by Harris’ marketing campaign. “For the live-streaming occasion in September, my manufacturing firm Harpo was requested to herald set design, lights, cameras, crew, producers and each different merchandise mandatory (together with the benches and the chairs we sat on) to placed on a dwell manufacturing. I didn’t take any private price,” she wrote on social media.
It was initially reported that Harpo Productions, Winfrey’s firm, was paid round $1 million for the September city corridor with Harris. However, a brand new report later claimed the quantity was underestimated, and that it was truly double the preliminary estimate that was reported. Two individuals accustomed to the occasions instructed the New York Times that Harris’ marketing campaign had truly paid Winfrey’s firm nearer to $2.5 million, which was solely a small fraction of Harris’ $1.5 billion marketing campaign spending.