Our friend Chuck Ross at the Washington Free Beacon penned a story Tuesday raising yet another set of questions about the wretched finances of Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign as he found it gave half a million dollars to MSNBC host Al Sharpton’s liberal advocacy group National Action Network just weeks before his softball-filled October 20 interview.
Citing publicly available “campaign finance records,” Ross explained that the $500,000 donation was made in two parts to the “National Action Network was part of a flurry of donations—$5.4 million in all—to black and Latino advocacy groups that seem aimed at winning Harris support from those constituencies.”
Just two days before the second half of the donation went through, Ross noted “Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him happy birthday on his MSNBC weekend show, PoliticsNation” and praised him as “an extraordinary leader” with “a voice of conscience” and “truth.”
Roughly two weeks later, Harris sat for what our Jorge Bonilla said at the time was “a super-soft landing” of an interview that came off like “a foot massage and tongue bath” following a “rough” week of media interviews.
Naturally, Ross noted none of this was disclosed at the time and both MSNBC and the National Action Network didn’t get back to him with comments.
He also noted the donations to Sharpton’s group were examples of “a $1 billion spending spree” by the Harris campaign that’s left it $20 million in debt after having “leaned heavily on celebrities, influencers, and other high-profile Harris backers,” such as Oprah Winfrey’s “production company” and other advocacy groups like the National Urban League (helmed by Marc Morial, husband of CBS Saturday Morning co-host Michelle Miller).
To see Ross’s full story on this conflict of interest, click here.
