Oprah Winfrey’s production banner, Harpo Productions, denies that the billionaire television host was “paid a personal fee” by Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign.
“The campaign paid for the production costs of ‘Unite for America,’ a live-streaming event that took place September 19 outside Detroit, Michigan” a Harpo spokesperson told Variety.
“Oprah Winfrey was at no point during the campaign paid a personal fee, nor did she receive a fee from Harpo,” the spokesperson added.
The statement by Harpo Productions was reportedly made in response to rumors being circulated that Winfrey was paid $1 million by Harris’s campaign.
Variety cited a November 8 Washington Examiner article, titled, “How Kamala Harris plowed through $1 billion,” which reported that federal findings show Harris’s campaign “paid more than $15 million” to companies for expenses related to “event production.”
Among those expenses included “$1 million for Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions,” Washington Examiner reported. more here
The “personal fee” angle came from Jim Hoft. So consider the source.
Kamala blows through [ no pun intended ] over a billion dollars on her campaign and ends up 20 million in debt, only to lose, and she wanted to run our economy? We dodged a huge bullet.
Well… on the plus side (a term often used to describe Opra) I guess you can’t call her a two-bit whore!
Reminds me of Wilma and Betty’s battle cry when they got their first credit cards (‘charge plates’ back then): “CHARGE IT!”, having no idea of the debt they were incurring. So yeah, Kammy would have been great for our economy.
Spokesflack:
This is a statement about disposition of funds. It is not a denial that funds were paid. There are lots of ways Orcah could benefit without directly receiving any “fee.”
This is a non-denial denial. Phooey.
It’s a tax dodge. Not a “personal fee”, but all her expenses were paid via Harpo Productions, which is solely owned by Oprah, so what’s the difference? If I remember correctly, Howard Hughes never had an income, but lived entirely on an expense account from his companies. This is very common amount the Uber wealthy.
Figures lie and liars figure.
semantics
I agree with Tony R; it’s similar to paying $$ to the Clinton Foundation, it’s used as a Travel & Expense Account for Hillary & Bill. Since $$ is fungible it’s the same as paying them directly.
Because we all know Orcah became a billionaire on talent alone….
I doubt Oprah would take any money.
Harris spent over a billion dollars? Really? Folks, this is simple. Have you heard of the Cayman Islands?
Look under your seat.
*everyone looks, finds nothing*
Yes!
Only I got a million dollars!
And I got a million dollars!
And I got a million dollars!
Now I can buy more of that “fire sale” property in Hawaii that was spoiling my view!
where’s the pony?
As desperate as Harris was, she could have got $10M.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some of Oprah’s people were skimming off cash for themselves without her knowing.
A million is
.1% of a billion. Just keep your mouth shut and this would go away fairly quickly. Continue to make nondenial denials and keep everyone interested. Typical dimocrat strategy. Besides that a billion was just what she spent in the last 3 months. Didn’t she blow thru another billion before that?
It doesn’t cost a million dollars to hold a town hall. Sorry but you’re lying.
Suuuuure……….not paid a PERSONAL fee……….but instead was paid a CORPORATE fee, from which she drew out “expenses”.
Am just happy that Orca Winfrey wasn’t as much of an influence as Kamalala hoped her to be .”HARPO” productions, pfft! I love HARPO …Marx . May he rest in peace, Amen .
Anyone think that she’s paid a visit to her old friend Harvey Weinstein in lockup at Rikers Island ? How about Meryl Streep ?
The FEC filings say the Harris campaign sent 2 $500,000 payments to Oprah