Controversy even involved the singer’s mother, who guarantees that there is no problem
President Donald Trump asked the charges of Beyoncé’s music superstar over the weekend – based on something that didn’t really happen.
Trump stated in a social media publication that Beyoncé violated the law by allegedly receiving $ 11 million for supporting the Democratic candidate for presidency Kamala Harris during an event in October 2024 in Houston. But there is simply no foundation for Trump’s claim that Beyoncé received this same payment related to the Democrat’s campaign, much less for particular support.
The federal campaign spending records show a $ 165,000 payment of the Harris campaign to Beyoncé producer, which the campaign listed as an expense of “campaign event production”. A Harris campaign spokesman told Deadline last year that they did not pay celebrities who supported the campaign, but were forced by law to cover costs related to their appearances.
Regardless of the merits of this specific expense of $ 165,000, this is far from an expense of 11 million. No one has ever presented any evidence to claim an eight-digit payment to Beyoncé since the claim that it was “$ 10 million” began to spread last year among Trump supporters on social networks. Factcheck.org and Politifact verification sites investigated the allegation of “$ 10 million” during the campaign and found no foundation for her.
The White House did not immediately respond to a CNN request on Saturday night to obtain any proof of $ 11 million referred to by Trump. When Trump previously summoned this unfounded value, during an interview in February, he described his source in very vacant terms: “Someone showed me something. They gave him 11 million dollars.”
A Harris spokesman referred to CNN for a social media publication in Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, who called the claim of a $ 10 million “lie” payment and noted that she was taken from Instagram as “fake information”.
“In fact: Beyoncé did not receive a cent for speaking at the vice-presidency candidate’s rally Kamala Harris in Houston,” Knowles wrote.
A Beyoncé spokesman told Politifact in November that the $ 10 million payment of $ 10 million is “more than ridiculous.”
What Trump wrote on Sunday
Trump revived false allegation in a publication on social networks published after 00:00 Sunday in Scotland, where he is visiting. He wrote that he is analyzing “the fact” of The Democrats “admit to having paid, probably illegally, eleven million dollars to singer Beyoncé for a support.”
Democrats reject the claim of a $ 11 million payment. The White House did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for any evidence of a democratic admission of such payment.
Trump continued to criticize other Harris campaign payments to organizations linked to prominent supporters. And then he said, without evidence, that these payments were inaccurately described in spending records. He also wrongly said that it is “totally illegal” to pay for political support, although no federal law prohibits payments for support.
Trump concluded: “Kamala and all those who received support money violated the law. They must all be prosecuted! Thanks for your attention to this.”
Trump has repeatedly appealed to the judicial process of his political opponents. Her Saturday’s publication on Harris and celebrity support was a climbing of a May publication when she said she would ask for a “big investigation” on the subject, but did not explicitly mention legal proceedings.
