Democrats like former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the party's 2024 presidential nominee, relied heavily on the strategy of having major celebrity influencers walk them across the finish line.
As we all know by now, that strategy didn't pan out even close to what Democrats had presumably hoped, and even worse for Harris, it looks like it could backfire in a major way -- perhaps even legally.
According to The Hill, President Donald Trump once again insisted this week that Harris illegally paid celebrities to endorse her candidacy and went as far as suggesting that the former vice president should be "prosecuted" for it.
Trump also said that the celebrities involved, which include Beyoncé, Oprah and Al Sharpton, should also face legal consequences.
As he usually does, Trump held nothing back in a Truth Social post insisting that Harris illegally paid celebrities to endorse her campaign, pointing out that it's illegal to do so.
"YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAY FOR AN ENDORSEMENT. IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL TO DO SO. Can you imagine what would happen if politicians started paying for people to endorse them. All hell would break out," Trump wrote.
He added, "Kamala, and all of those that received Endorsement money, BROKE THE LAW. They should all be prosecuted! Thank you for your attention to this matter."
The president has made similar claims in the past, emphasizing that paying people to endorse is illegal.
The Hill noted:
“Beyoncé didn’t sing, Oprah didn’t do much of anything (she called it ‘expenses’), and Al is just a third rate Con Man,” he said in December.
In Saturday’s post, the president claimed Harris paid $11 million to Beyoncé, $3 million to Oprah, and $600,000 to Sharpton.
For her part, Oprah has publicly denied that she had been paid Harris, admitting that production fees for an appearance she made with Harris were covered by the campaign.
“The people who worked on that production needed to be paid. And were. End of story," Oprah said at the time.
Whether or not Harris broke campaign finance laws -- or other laws -- it doesn't seem to matter at this point because it failed miserably.
Trump connected with Americans, at the dinner table, and even though he's a billionaire real estage mogul and holder of the highest office, he was more relatable than Harris and her elite celebrity friends.
It'll be interesting to see if Democrats learn their lesson the next time around.
