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Oprah Winfrey is denying allegations that she took $1 million from the presidential marketing campaign of Kamala Harris, allegations which were repeatedly shared by social media observers.
Within the wake of the presidential election loss by Vice President Kamala Harris, larger scrutiny on the Democratic Occasion’s spending has elevated and plenty of are taking a look at allegations that Oprah Winfrey personally obtained cash from the marketing campaign to the tune of $1 million. The allegation got here as a part of a report by the Washington Examiner, a conservative media outlet, which took a have a look at the monetary output of the Harris marketing campaign which had collected $1 billion in three months of fundraising. The Examiner reported that the marketing campaign “paid greater than $15 million, based on federal filings,” on “occasion manufacturing.” That included the million {dollars} paid to Harpo Productions, Winfrey’s firm.
Harpo Productions was liable for placing on the “Unite For America” livestream occasion for Harris that aired in September and was held in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. The city corridor featured celebrities corresponding to actresses Tracee Ellis Ross and Meryl Streep amongst others showing nearly. Winfrey interviewed the vice chairman about her stances on reproductive rights, together with abortion, in addition to gun management. The reviews led to some on-line expressing their dislike of the state of affairs, and decrying how a lot financial donations and high-profile figures have gotten a say within the nation’s politics.
Different retailers picked up on the Examiner’s article and started to put in writing that Winfrey herself had been paid that sum of 1 million. A reporter from TMZ confronted Oprah Winfrey on the road in a video launched on Monday (November 10). “Is it true that they paid you 1,000,000 {dollars} for the endorsement for Kamala?”, the reporter requested. “Not true,” Winfrey replied. “I didn’t receives a commission a penny. Ever.” She responded to a commenter who was defending her on Instagram, reiterating that she wasn’t personally paid and explaining how her firm was paid for producing the digital city corridor.
