Harris campaign donated $500K to Al Sharpton non-profit before softball interview
All kinds of juicy tidbits are emerging regarding Vice President Kamala Harris' failed and shady presidential campaign.
According to the New York Post, just prior to a softball interview with MSNBC's Al Sharpton, Harris' campaign reportedly donated a staggering $500,000 to his nonprofit, the National Action Network.
The donation came in two parts, one in early September and one in early October, filings revealed. The donations were $250,000 each, according to the report.
The Harris campaign couldn't organically energize key voting demographics, so they instead tried to grab support from certain communities by donating large amounts of cash to various organizations.
The timing
The timing of the Harris campaign donation to Sharpton's organization was just three weeks before she sat down for an interview with the civil rights activist on Oct. 20.
The Post noted:
Available campaign finance records are current through mid-October and do not yet reveal the Harris team’s spending during the tail end of the 2024 election cycle.
Harris, 60, sat down with Sharpton, 70, for an MSNBC interview that aired on Oct. 20, just shy of three weeks after the donations from her campaign to the National Action Network.
News of the donation generated plenty of reaction across social media.
Kamala Harris’ campaign reportedly paid Al Sharpton’s nonprofit $500k in two installments. Weeks later, he hosted her on MSNBC, taking shots at Trump. Convenient timing? 🤨
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) November 12, 2024
Unsurprisingly, Sharpton was more than kind to Harris during the interview. The Post described the scene:
Sharpton heaped praise on Harris during the sit-down, at one point drawing parallels to Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress who later unsuccessfully vied for the presidency in 1972.
Even after shelling out tons of cash to anyone who would give her a break, the Harris campaign clearly has regrets at this point in time, because the cash couldn't buy her the victory she was seeking.
Social media reacts
As one can imagine, social media users had a field day with news of the payments to Sharpton's non-profit.
"Everyone was right. The entire Harris campaign was faked and scripted," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "Money laundering at work here folks."
One can't even say "nice try" to the Harris campaign, because it was embarrassing, at best.
