Posted on 11/12/2024 8:17:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Well, this is awkward.
After Federal Election Commission filings showed that the Harris-Walz campaign paid a cool million to Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions company for the town hall where Oprah endorsed Harris, Oprah denied it.
Caught on a backstreet by one of those TMZ video crews and asked if it was true that "they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala," Oprah replied, "Not true. I was paid nothing, ever."
“The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a live-streaming event that took place Sept. 19 outside Detroit, Mich.,” a spokesperson for Harpo said, trying to clear things up. “Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee, nor did she receive a fee from Harpo.”
Technically, that's the truth. But only technically.
It was Winfrey's production company that received the seven-figure check. But Harpo is owned by Winfrey. For all intents and purposes, Harpo IS Oprah.
The FEC paperwork shows that Harpo was paid for "EVENT PRODUCTION," not for Winfrey's endorsement. But does 94 minutes of unscripted, live television, produced on a small set, really cost a million dollars to produce? Or was Oprah's "personal fee" just part of the overhead?
“ As a legal matter," the Federalist's Sean Davis asked on Monday, "how are secret bought-and-paid-for endorsements even legal? If you can’t run a paid ad without a clear disclosure, how on earth can you run a paid endorsement without disclosure?"
Maybe that's something the Trump DOJ should look into. But right here, right now, we can look into where the money went.
Github user Gaiaus uploaded the Harris campaign's official FEC spending filing last week for all to see, and it showed a last-minute, pop-up campaign that very quickly ramped up into a spending behemoth.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
I believe her.
Harris has defaulted on millions of dollars owed to vendors, entertainers, staff members and etc.
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-campaign-20m-debt-what-we-know-1981936
Oprah is an evil, lying scumbag.
Very slick Oprah.
paying her company to bribe her isn’t even laundering. There wasn’t an intermediary to hide the source. The only “middle man” was that they paid her media company rather than wrote a check to her directly.
So, Oprah is a proven fraud and liar.
Cash under the table , tax free
It wasn’t a TMZ video crew that filmed Ozemprah.
It was Backgrid.
The questions are why did Backgrid film that, then release what they had.
Looks like a duck...
She’s stupid. She thinks she can weave and dodge on this one by playing word games. But a payment it obviously was.
Even AI admits Oprah (Harpo Productions) received a million bucks.....
The controversy arose after a report from the Washington Examiner indicated that Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Productions, received two payments of $500,000 each from Harris’s campaign for hosting a town hall event in September.
However, Harpo Productions clarified that these payments were for production costs associated with the event and not for Winfrey’s personal participation. They emphasized that she did not receive any personal fee for her involvement.
Is Oprah/Harpo going to donate any monies not used for the actual production to charity?
Somebody got a million...it just might not be Oprah.
“Technically, that’s the truth. But only technically.“
I’m an S corp, I don’t think I’d try getting cute with that technicality vs the IRS.
She should be tried and convicted of 34 felonies.
Oh. And also found guilty of raping E. Jean Carroll maybe 30 years ago.
Screw the missing 20 million RAT voters. Where did that one billion dollars go? Harriz and her show business entourage must have been spending like drunken DemocRATs every time they had a rally.
Oprah was not paid, it was Harpo productions.
it is expensive to set stuff like this up and pay a bunch of people to be in the audience. It is quite possible that Oprah herself did not take any money.
Regardless I am very glad ‘La is not going to be in charge of the federal budget any time soon
If Harris was charged a million dollars - that’s the issue. NOT if she paid it or not.
Did Oprah bill her a million or not?
Opara’s a democrat so it’s a question of what meaning of ‘is’ is... scummy liberal filth.
The Federal Elections commission needs to look into this. It was advertised as a "Town Hall" when in fact it was a paid political commercial and this was NOT disclosed to viewers, that's a scam.
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