Filthy-rich entertainment mogul Oprah Winfrey vehemently denied that she was paid $1 million by the Kamala Harris campaign after hosting a town hall with the doomed Democrat presidential candidate.
Harris has come under fire for burning through a $1 billion war chest with reports that her team shelled out big bucks to celebrities who appeared with the Democrat nominee and held a series of concerts promoting her candidacy, one of them being Winfrey who headed up the star-studded “Unite for America” event in September.
When confronted by a TMZ reporter on the street who pressed her about the reports, the 70-year-old Barack Obama ally insisted that she wasn’t compensated for her promotion of Harris who lost to President-elect Donald J. Trump by a landslide in last week’s election.
#OprahWinfrey is shutting down claims she was paid $1 million to host a town hall on behalf of #KamalaHarris‘ presidential campaign … with the talk show legend declaring it’s all BS. Full article in bio!
: BACKGRID pic.twitter.com/RcSKFbkVXj
— TMZ (@TMZ) November 11, 2024
“I’m not talking about the election,” said the megastar who was dressed casually and walking down the street when she was ambushed by the reporter.
“Not true,” she said after being asked “Is it true that they paid you a million dollars for the endorsement for Kamala?”
“I was paid nothing — ever,” Winfrey insisted, also refusing to comment on the celebrities who also endorsed Harris.
Last week, the Washington Examiner reported that Oprah’s company Harpo Productions was paid $1 million, according to federal filings cited by the outlet.
In a statement to showbiz outlet Variety, Harpo Productions denied that Winfrey was paid a “personal fee” by Team Harris.
“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 said in the statement. “Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee, nor did she receive a fee from Harpo.”
The live-streamed event had Winfrey conducting an interview with Harris in front of a live town hall audience from Farmington Hills, MI, and also featured Hollywood stars Bryan Cranston, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, and Meryl Streep as a galaxy of haughty celebrities sought to help sell the manufactured “joy” of Kamala to voters.
At times Winfrey was visibly uncomfortable, such as when one man asked the “border czar” specifics about her plan to address the illegal alien crisis and instead of giving a direct answer, spewed one of the incomprehensible word salads that made her a national joke until the image makeover after she was swapped out for Joe Biden.
In another highlight, Oprah perfectly set her up to pander to conservative voters with her unsubstantiated claim that she owned a gun and would use it to shoot a home intruder.
KAMALA: “If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot. Ha ha ha! Sorry, probably shouldn’t have said that! Ha ha ha! But my staff will deal with that later. Ha ha ha!” pic.twitter.com/uAIJpSgl4N
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 20, 2024
“If somebody breaks into my house, they’re getting shot, sorry,” Harris cackled, to the delight of the host and the audience.
Winfrey, who also spoke at the DNC hatefest in August where Kamala was formally crowned, appeared with her at the vice president’s final campaign rally in Philadelphia on the day before the election.
“We’re voting for values and integrity,” she told the crowd. “We’re voting for healing over hate.”
Harris’ loss has donors fuming over how their money was spent, not getting the desired return on investment from a campaign that spent like drunken sailors only to lose the presidency, the Senate, and likely the House of Representatives.
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