{"id":114067,"date":"2025-05-19T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/114067\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:16:08","slug":"trump-wants-probe-into-celeb-endorsements-as-springsteen-needles-president-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/114067\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants probe into celeb endorsements as Springsteen needles president \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCandidates aren\u2019t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment,\u201d Trump fumed in a caps lock-heavy screed<\/a> on social media in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds. IT\u2019S NOT LEGAL!\u201d he added, calling the various artists who came out in support of Harris \u201cunpatriotic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then-Vice President Harris received a steady stream of celebrity backers leading up to the November election. Beyonc\u00e9 spoke at a rally<\/a> in Houston along with former Destiny\u2019s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland, but did not perform, while Winfrey hosted a star-studded, live-streamed town hall near Detroit.<\/p>\n

Rumors falsely circulated that the superstars were paid millions for their support, which their teams quickly shut down.<\/p>\n

The Harris campaign, which raised more than $1 billion in just a few months, paid Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s production company $165,000<\/a> and gave $1 million to Harpo Productions<\/a>, Winfrey\u2019s company, according to campaign finance records.<\/p>\n

Winfrey addressed criticism over the figure in a social media post, saying she did not receive \u201cany personal fee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cCandidates aren\u2019t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[18397,32,33,2175,1805,7723,18111,39589,1772,19134,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-114067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-kamala-harris","12":"tag-kanye-west","13":"tag-oprah-winfrey","14":"tag-society-and-culture","15":"tag-u-s-election-2024","16":"tag-u-s-politics","17":"tag-u-s-presidential-campaigns","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114533982758669416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}