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, Harpo Productions, received a $1 million payment from campaign funds. The payment was made by the Harris campaign on October 15 after Winfrey hosted a town hall event in September, per a report from The Washington Examiner. Oprah was also featured at Harris’ final campaign rally in Philadelphia just days before the election, where she warned voters to get to the polls instead of being tempted to “sit this one out.” The 70-year-old celeb was confronted by TMZ on Monday regarding the report, which at the time she said was “not true.” “I was paid nothing. Ever,” Oprah told the cameraman. Later in the week, the billionaire TV host clarified her remarks in an Instagram post from The Shade Room. She was replying to a follower who wrote, “Y’all thinking Oprah’s support can be purchased is beyond me.”  “Thank you so much for saying this,” Oprah wrote in response. “I want to high five you and give you a hug. Usually I am reluctant to respond to rumors in general, but these days I realize that if you don’t stop a lie, it just gets bigger,” her reply continued. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “I was not paid a dime. My time and energy was my way of supporting the campaign,” Oprah wrote. “For the live-streaming event in September, my production company Harpo was asked to bring in set design, lights, cameras, microphones, crew, producers, and every other item necessary (including the benches and chairs we sat on) to put on a live production. I did not take any personal fee. However the people who worked on that production needed to be paid. And were. End of story.” Oprah’s explanation sparked some pushback on social media, with several users questioning how the event could cost that much, or why Kamala’s campaign did not cover the costs.  “This is highly irregular,” Megyn Kelly wrote in response on X. “The subject of the interview does not pay for the set/production costs (the interviewer does) & even more shocking when said costs are $1Mil. Esp shady when it’s a presidential candidate. This is grossly unethical.”

The mayor of the small Florida town where FEMA relief workers skipped over homes with Trump signs after Hurricane Milton wants those involved held accountable. Lake Placid Mayor John Holbrook told The Daily Wire that he was “very much surprised” that FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington instructed relief workers to “avoid homes advertising Trump” while canvassing his community. Whistleblowers told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes were skipped because of the guidance, which Washington later said was due to “political hostility.”  ”We’ve always had a great relationship with FEMA and that’s what is surprising about this,” Holbrook said. “However far it goes, I hope it’s taken care of and the people are prosecuted the way they should because you know as well as I do that the American people deserve better treatment than this. Nobody should be penalized or discriminated against on who they vote for.” The part-time mayor, who also manages a local hardware store, said that tornadoes caused by Hurricane Milton did major damage to his community. He said that around 30 homes were taken out in the Tropical Harbor mobile home park, saying that many were out of town when the storm came through. He also said the tornadoes “cut a swath” through a nearby Duke Energy solar farm.  Holbrook said that he expected FEMA to be focused on other parts of the country that were hit harder by the hurricanes, and only learned the agency had come to Lake Placid after The Daily Wire report.  “We really haven’t had much interaction with FEMA like a lot of people have,” he said. “I do understand that FEMA is in the area now and they have foot soldiers on the ground and they’re going into a lot of the subdivisions and they’re going house to house to just check with everybody and make sure that they are being properly taken care of, which I got to give FEMA credit for that.”  Most of the clean-up from the tornadoes caused by Milton in Lake Placid has been done by city and county officials. Holbrook said that Lake Placid and Highlands County staff had already moved some 600 cubic yards of debris with close to 10 loads left. He said he was very proud of how the town had come together to clean up, saying it was a very “close knit” community.  The guidance from Washington triggered a wave of investigations, including from the House Oversight Committee and the state of Florida. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody sued FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and Washington on Wednesday, accusing them of conspiring to deny aid to Trump supporters.  Holbrook, a registered Democrat, said that there should be no political discrimination coming from the federal government.  “We need to let the trees fall where they may and if there’s more involved then they should be held accountable,” he said. “We have to depend on our government to help us out in times of need like this.” 

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