A new report has revealed that former Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign paid billionaire NBA legend LeBron James’s production company $50,000, which might not seem like a big deal except for the fact that James endorsed Harris in a video that was deceptively edited and featured an attack against President Donald Trump just a few days before the election.
SpringHill Entertainment, owned by the NBA star, received the payment on Jan. 28 for “campaign event production,” campaign disclosures released this week said. James, who plays as a forward for the L.A. Lakers, made no appearances at any Harris campaign events.
So what did he produce for her? How about a 75-second video that appeared on his social media accounts back on Oct. 31 that tried to make Trump look like a racist? Lefists never get sick of this schtick, do they? Do these folks not understand that the label “racist” has lost all of its sting because of their overuse of it?
“When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” James said in a post on X and Instagram, where he has a staggering 53 million and 159 million followers, respectively.
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Critics of the ad, entitled “Hate Takes US Back,” claimed it was deceptively edited to place Trump soundbites over racially charged footage. In one segment, an image of Trump appears on screen as a white supremacist is heard chanting, “We love Hitler, we love Trump.” The ad shows a news headline stating that former KKK leader David Duke supported Trump, though Trump disavowed Duke in early 2016.
The payment to James’s company is the latest example of an exorbitant spending spree that saw the campaign burn through more than $1.5 billion only to suffer the party’s worst presidential defeat in decades. Some Democratic megadonors have criticized the campaign for spending so heavily on celebrities, consultants, and ineffective advertisements.
“A lot of people got rich on the back of donors trying to stop Trump. And I think this disqualifies her forever—forever. If you can’t run a campaign, you can’t run America,” prominent Democratic donor John Morgan went on to say of Harris, who has yet to decide whether she will run for president in 2028. She is also reportedly considering a run for California governor, and has discussed forming a public policy think tank with her lawyer husband Doug Emhoff.
The campaign paid tens of millions of dollars to celebrities who appeared at campaign rallies on her behalf. Harris’s team paid $165,000 to the production company of Beyoncé Knowles, who spoke for four minutes in support of Harris at a rally in Houston in October. The campaign paid the production company of Oprah Winfrey at least $1 million for a sit-down interview in Chicago, and nearly $100,000 to the shell company of Barack and Michelle Obama, who appeared at several campaign events for Harris.
Using celebrities as a means of trying to win people over in the culture, to make Harris look relevant, was an enormous mistake. The average American, who is living paycheck-to-paycheck thanks to the horrific policies of the Biden administration, are sick and tired of being told what to think, how to think, and who to vote for by billionaire entertainers who want for nothing.
These individuals are just as out of touch with people as Harris herself is.
Team Harris gave $58,000 to rapper Cardi B, who spoke at a rally for Harris in Milwaukee on Nov. 1. Cardi B shot down allegations at the time that she was paid for the stump speech.
“I didn’t get paid a dollar,” the rapper stated. “I came out of pocket for glam and travel because it’s somewhere I wanted to be.”
The Harris campaign shelled out over $5 million to various liberal activist groups, which included a fat check for MSNBC host Al Sharpton’s nonprofit in the ballpark of $500,000. He interviewed Harris after she slipped him the cash and didn’t disclose the payment to anyone.
“Campaign disclosures do not describe what James’s company did in exchange for the $50,000 payment. And it is unclear why the payment was made so long after the election. Campaign disclosures show Harris’s campaign also paid actress Jennifer Garner $35,000 for ‘campaign event production and travel’ on Jan. 16. Garner, the ex-wife of Ben Affleck, appeared at several campaign events alongside Harris,” the report went on to say.
James, who founded his production company in 2007, also partnered with another production company called HollandWest Productions to create the ad.
“We are thrilled to have collaborated on producing this ad for LeBron James as he officially endorses Kamala Harris,” “We are thrilled to have collaborated on producing this ad for LeBron James as he officially endorses Kamala Harris,” the company revealed in a post made on social media.
NEW: LeBron James said endorsing Kamala Harris in a viral Trump-bashing video was a personal decision “for my kids.”
But new disclosures show Harris’s campaign quietly paid his production company $50,000 after the post.
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