US President Donald Trump mentioned on Monday in a rant-filled diatribe about celebrities who backed Kamala Harris that pop diva Beyoncé bought $11 million for endorsing his marketing campaign rival.
Trump offered no proof to again up his free-wheeling allegations over Beyoncé or different entertainers he attacked as he introduced “a serious investigation” into what he mentioned had been funds by the failed Democratic candidate to stars like Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey and Bono for them to help her towards Trump.
Trump, six months after he beat Harris to launch a second time period within the White Home, mentioned these funds he alleges passed off amounted to unlawful marketing campaign contributions.
Made an look
He alleged that for a Harris rally in late October through which the “Freedom” singer made an look, “Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to stroll onto a stage, shortly ENDORSE KAMALA, and stroll off to loud booing for by no means having carried out, NOT EVEN ONE SONG!”
Donald Trump mentioned this was “in line with information reviews.”
Beyoncé informed the rally crowd on the time that “I’m not right here as a celeb. I’m not right here as a politician. I’m right here as a mom.”
Trump posted on his Fact Social platform that he would “name for a serious investigation into this matter.”
“Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, below the guise of paying for leisure,” he mentioned.
Harris had sought to harness star energy from celebrities corresponding to Beyoncé, Winfrey and Springsteen within the election race.
Defended cost
Winfrey has defended a $1 million cost to her manufacturing firm from the Harris marketing campaign to cowl prices related to the discuss present legend’s manufacturing firm internet hosting the presidential candidate at a rally in September.
Harris’s crew, in the meantime, has denied rumours that she paid Beyoncé to seem at a rally.
The marketing campaign listed one endorsement-related expenditure for $75 in its monetary reviews to an environmental advocacy group.
Donald Trump, who received the 2024 election comfortably, obtained scant help from the leisure business at giant however tapped right into a focused subset of well-known, hypermasculine influencers together with podcast host Joe Rogan.
The president on Monday accused Harris of paying rock star Springsteen to carry out at a rally in Georgia weeks earlier than the election.
“How a lot did Kamala Harris pay Bruce Springsteen for his poor efficiency throughout her marketing campaign for president?” he wrote.
“Why did he settle for that cash if he’s such a fan of hers?”
Donald Trump final week took to Fact Social to feud with Springsteen after the star informed a British live performance viewers that his homeland is now dominated by a “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”
In return, the 78-year-old Republican mentioned the star, nicknamed “the Boss,” is “Extremely Overrated.”
Springsteen is an outspoken liberal critic of Trump and turned out for Harris after she changed Democratic president Joe Biden in his deserted reelection bid.
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