President Donald Trump has accused the twice-failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris of paying high-profile celebrities to endorse her 2024 campaign.
In a statement on Monday, Trump called for a “major investigation” into the “unlawful” endorsements.
As Slay News reported at the time, suspicions were already raised by the number of Sean “Diddy” Combs-linked celebrities who endorsed Harris.
Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo), Oprah Winfrey, Bono, and Beyonce and Jay-Z are all publicly connected to Diddy, and they all endorsed Harris.
In an early morning Truth Social post, Trump accused Harris of illegally paying for high-profile endorsements, saying:
“HOW MUCH DID KAMALA HARRIS PAY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN FOR HIS POOR PERFORMANCE DURING HER CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT?
“WHY DID HE ACCEPT THAT MONEY IF HE IS SUCH A FAN OF HERS?
“ISN’T THAT A MAJOR AND ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION?
“WHAT ABOUT BEYONCÉ? …AND HOW MUCH WENT TO OPRAH, AND BONO???
“I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter,” Trump wrote.
“Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment,” he added.
“In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds.
“IT’S NOT LEGAL!” Trump said.
“For these unpatriotic ‘entertainers,’ this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system.
“Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”
Springsteen, who performed at an October rally for Harris in Atlanta, has been attacking the Trump administration during his concerts in recent weeks.
“In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration,” Springsteen said at a concert last week in England.
“Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”
The Harris campaign has previously come under scrutiny for large payments made to the production companies of celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé, and LeBron James.
The Washington Free Beacon reported last month that Harris’s campaign paid James’s production company $50,000 for “campaign event production.”
While James did not appear at any Harris events, he did post a social media video endorsing Harris.
James also suggested that Trump was a racist.
Similarly, the Harris campaign paid Beyonce’s production company $165,000.
Oprah’s production company, meanwhile, took a cool $1 million.
Beyonce spoke briefly at a Harris campaign event in Houston while Oprah did a sit-down interview with Harris in Chicago.
