U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a ceremony earlier than posthumously awarding Medals of Sacrifice to 3 fallen Palm Seaside County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on Might 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos/AFP
WASHINGTON, United States — US President Donald Trump referred to as Monday for a “main investigation” into Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen and different celebrities, alleging they have been paid tens of millions of {dollars} to endorse his Democratic opponent within the 2024 election, Kamala Harris.
In a rant-filled diatribe that offered no proof for his allegations, Trump charged as an example that Beyonce was paid $11 million to seem at a Harris rally — studies the Democrat’s group has denied.
Trump, six months after he beat Harris to launch a second time period within the White Home, mentioned such funds may quantity to unlawful marketing campaign contributions.
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The US president alleged that for a Harris rally in late October during which the “Freedom” singer made an look, “Beyonce was paid $11,000,000 to stroll onto a stage, shortly ENDORSE KAMALA, and stroll off to loud booing for by no means having carried out, NOT EVEN ONE SONG!”
Trump mentioned this was “based on information studies.”
On the time, Beyonce advised the rally crowd that “I’m not right here as a celeb. I’m not right here as a politician. I’m right here as a mom.”
The US president mentioned he meant “to name for a serious investigation into this matter.”
“Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, below the guise of paying for leisure,” he mentioned, whereas additionally alleging the Democrat was attempting to “artificially construct up her sparse crowds. IT’S NOT LEGAL!”
(FILE) Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, (left) greets Beyoncé (proper) throughout a marketing campaign rally at Shell Power Stadium on October 25, 2024 in Houston, Texas. | Photograph by JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Photos through AFP
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In her bid for the presidency Harris sought to harness star energy from celebrities similar to Beyonce, Springsteen and Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey has defended a $1 million fee to her manufacturing firm from the Harris marketing campaign to cowl prices related to the discuss present legend’s manufacturing firm internet hosting the presidential candidate at a rally in September.
The marketing campaign listed one endorsement-related expenditure for $75 in its monetary studies to an environmental advocacy group.
Trump, who gained the 2024 election comfortably, acquired scant help from the leisure business at giant however tapped right into a focused subset of well-known, hypermasculine influencers together with podcast host Joe Rogan.
The president on Monday accused Harris of paying rock star Springsteen to carry out at a rally in Georgia weeks earlier than the election.
“How a lot did Kamala Harris pay Bruce Springsteen for his poor efficiency throughout her marketing campaign for president?” he wrote.
“Why did he settle for that cash if he’s such a fan of hers?”
Trump final week took to Reality Social to feud with Springsteen after the star advised a British live performance viewers that his homeland was now dominated by a “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”
In return, the 78-year-old Republican mentioned the star, nicknamed “the Boss,” is “Extremely Overrated.”
Springsteen is an outspoken liberal critic of Trump and turned out for Harris after she changed Democratic president Joe Biden in his deserted reelection bid.
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