Oprah Winfrey Explains Controversial $1 Million Kamala Harris’s Campaign Payment

<h4>Oprah Winfrey Explains<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports Oprah Winfrey has responded to claims that she was paid to campaign for Kamala Harris after it was revealed that the talk show host’s company&comma; Harpo Productions&comma; received a &dollar;1 million payment from campaign funds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The payment was made by the Harris campaign on October 15 after Winfrey hosted a town hall event in September&comma; per a report from The Washington Examiner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oprah was also featured at Harris’ final campaign rally in Philadelphia just days before the election&comma; where she warned voters to get to the polls instead of being tempted to &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sit this one out&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 70-year-old celeb was confronted by TMZ on Monday regarding the report&comma; which at the time she said was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;not true&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was paid nothing&period; Ever&comma;” Oprah told the cameraman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Later in the week&comma; the billionaire TV host clarified her remarks in an Instagram post from The Shade Room&period; She was replying to a follower who wrote&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Y’all thinking Oprah’s support can be purchased is beyond me&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Thank you so much for saying this&comma;” Oprah wrote in response&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I want to high five you and give you a hug&period; Usually I am reluctant to respond to rumors in general&comma; but these days I realize that if you don’t stop a lie&comma; it just gets bigger&comma;” her reply continued&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was not paid a dime&period; My time and energy was my way of supporting the campaign&comma;” Oprah wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For the live-streaming event in September&comma; my production company <strong>Harpo<&sol;strong> was asked to bring in set design&comma; lights&comma; cameras&comma; microphones&comma; crew&comma; producers&comma; and every other item necessary &lpar;including the benches and chairs we sat on&rpar; to put on a live production&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I did not take any personal fee&period; However the people who worked on that production needed to be paid&period; And were&period; End of story&comma;” Oprah Winfrey explained&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meantime&comma; Oprah’s explanation sparked some pushback on social media&comma; with several users questioning how the event could cost that much&comma; or why Kamala’s campaign did not cover the costs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is highly irregular&comma;” Megyn Kelly wrote in response on X&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The subject of the interview does not pay for the set&sol;production costs &lpar;the interviewer does&rpar; &amp&semi; even more shocking when said costs are &dollar;1million especially shady when it’s a presidential candidate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is grossly unethical&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;27326" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-27326" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-27326" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;11&sol;HA-1-300x156&period;jpg" alt&equals;"FIFA President&comma; Gianni Infantino&comma; Speaks On Trump's Election" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"156" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-27326" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>FIFA President celebrating  Trump on the election victory<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;