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Trump aims at the connections of the Harris campaign to Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé and Bruce Springsteen

President Trump calls for a “big investigation” of prominent Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Oprah Winfrey and Bono and brings his retaliation campaign to the music industry.

Mr. Trump argued on Monday in two posts for the social social of truth that Kamala Harris, as a candidate of the Democratic Party, violated the campaign financing law by paying these figures for notes “under the guise of the conversation”.

There is no evidence that Ms. Harris paid the notes, although details about prominent engagements can be a little dark. According to the law on campaign financing, campaigns are required to pay the fair market value for the costs of events to ensure that a company or a person does not donate beyond the federal contribution limits.

According to the campaign finance records, Ms. Harris paid $ 1 million to Ms. Winfrey's production company for a live stream town hall in Detroit. Ms. Winfrey said the money for the costs and salaries related to the event and no personal fee.

Beyoncé headed a rally for Ms. Harris in her hometown Houston for an event for abortion rights, and Ms. Harris' campaign paid $ 165,000 for the “production of campaign events” in November. On Monday, Mr. Trump falsely claimed that her payment was 11 million US dollars, citing “news reports”, which was not described in more detail. The artist's mother called this figure a “lie”.

Mr. Trump's angry contributions come when his eight was raised against Mr. Springsteen, who sharply criticized Mr. Trump last week during a concert in Manchester, England. Mr. Trump replied with a social media post that described him as a “dried” cut “of a rocker. Mr. Springsteen appeared in the last weeks of the presidential race at a rally in Atlanta, although there are still no records of the payment of Ms. Harris' campaign.

It was not clear why Mr. Trump Bono, the Irish singer-songwriter who delimits the band U2. While he was a friend of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and received a presidential medal of freedom, the country's highest civil price, he did not appear at any campaign events with Ms. Harris, and he supported her.

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