President Trump on Saturday doubled down on his accusations that former Vice President Harris paid celebrities to endorse her in the course of the 2024 presidential election.
The president, echoing earlier claims that Harris paid Beyoncé, Oprah and Al Sharpton to help her White Home bid all through the marketing campaign path, stated Harris and the celebrities concerned must be “prosecuted.”
“YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAY FOR AN ENDORSEMENT. IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL TO DO SO. Are you able to think about what would occur if politicians began paying for individuals to endorse them. All hell would escape,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post.
“Kamala, and all of people who acquired Endorsement cash, BROKE THE LAW. They need to all be prosecuted! Thanks to your consideration to this matter,” he added.
Trump made related claims concerning the former vp earlier this yr and late final yr.
“Beyoncé didn’t sing, Oprah didn’t do a lot of something (she known as it ‘bills’), and Al is only a third fee Con Man,” he said in December.
In Saturday’s put up, the president claimed Harris paid $11 million to Beyoncé, $3 million to Oprah, and $600,000 to Sharpton.
Oprah beforehand stated she “was not paid a dime” to appear alongside Harris at a live-streamed occasion. Manufacturing charges had been coated by the marketing campaign, nonetheless.
“The individuals who labored on that manufacturing wanted to be paid. And had been. Finish of story,” she wrote final fall.
The Harris marketing campaign previously denied paying Beyoncé for an endorsement. Information from the Federal Elections Fee present the Harris marketing campaign did pay Beyonce’s manufacturing firm Parkwood Manufacturing Media LLC $165,000. Such reimbursements are ceaselessly related to giant occasion manufacturing and can’t be donated to political campaigns.