Posted on 11/12/2024 4:37:40 PM PST by Libloather
The Harris-Walz campaign funneled some $500,000 to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit, the National Action Network, prior to the vice president’s softball sit-down interview with the civil rights activist.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ team made two donations of $250,000 to Sharpton’s group on Sept. 5 and Oct. 1 respectively, according to Federal Election Commission records.
The cash flow came in the context of payments totaling $5.4 million to various black and Latino activist organizations as the campaign set its sights on galvanizing support among minority voters. The Washington Free Beacon first reported the donations.
Available campaign finance records are current through mid-October and do not yet reveal Harris’ team’s spending during the tail-end of the 2024 election cycle.
Harris, 60, sat down with Sharpton, 70, for an MSNBC interview that aired on Oct. 20, just shy of three weeks after the donations from her campaign to the National Action Network.
Sharpton heaped praise on Harris during the sit-down, at one point drawing parallels to Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress who later unsuccessfully vied for the presidency in 1972.
During that interview on his “PoliticsNation” show, Harris also glossed over Sharpton bringing up complaints that she was “too progressive.” The outgoing vice president has long had a friendly rapport with the reverend, dating back decades.
At the start of October, Sharpton played a video of her wishing him a happy birthday and hailing him as an “extraordinary leader” and “a voice of truth.”
Sharpton has been a controversial figure for some of his incendiary remarks on race. Back in the early 1990s, he was quoted as describing Jews as “the diamond merchants” and railing against “white interlopers.”
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Any serious news organization would have disclosed this before and during the interview. Shows how corrupt it is. And Oprah got $5 million for her “interview”.
The whole Harris campaign was as fake as fake could be.
Does the reverend have to pay taxes on that?
She even had to buy her way in with folks that probably gave interviews to Obama and Biden for free. That’s how popular she wasn’t.
You put your money into the machine, and presto chango, out comes your Happy-Happy-Patty Cake Interview.
As taught by Jesse Jackson’s Operation Push, long time ago.
Not rocket science.
She spent 3 times the amount spent and went down in flames.
And who needs to pay people like Oprah or Sharpton for interviews? Guess they don’t really believe the BS they spout.
Her entire campaign was a money laundering scheme
I wonder how much of that $500,000 went into the “Rev.” Sharpton’s pocket.
The Harris campaign was much like the Democrats student loan program. Poor and rich people should contribute so that the money can be given to the richest of them.
500K vs probably 500 million of free pro-Kamala ads via MSNBC during the whole election cycle is a drop in the bucket to tell you the truth.
Troubling? Yes. But with of without the 500K we all know it would not have changed the softball questions.
Should something be done about the 500K? Yes. But it probably wont.
AND SHE IS $20 MILLION in debt
/ humor
Heard of special interests bribing candidates. But not so much about candidates bribing special interests.
BTTT.
Why should she care? It’s not her money. (sarc.
Two whores walk into a bar......
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