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Donald Trump is nearly undoubtedly within the Epstein Recordsdata.
It actually needs to be famous lately, each time his title is invoked, that the President was good pals with a convicted intercourse trafficker and presumed pedophile and that Trump himself probably had sexual activity with VERY younger ladies.
So there’s that.
And there’s additionally this…
Donald Trump speaks throughout a joint press briefing with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen (unseen) after agreeing on a commerce deal between the 2 economies following their assembly, in Turnberry. (Picture by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Over this previous weekend, whereas on trip in Scotland to play golf, Trump ranted on Fact Social about two of probably the most well-known ladies on the planet.
The Commander-in-Chief claimed in his missive Beyonce was paid $11 million to endorse final yr’s Democratic nominee for President, Kamala Harris, and that she “never sang, not one note, and left the stage to a booing and angry audience!”
He additionally alleged that Democrats paid $3 million in “expenses” to Oprah and $600,000 to civil rights activist and tv persona Reverend Al Sharpton.
Trump first lashed out on this method, on these identical matters, again in Could.
Beyoncé performs in the course of the halftime present for the sport between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans at NRG Stadium on December 25, 2024 in Houston, Texas. (Picture by Alex Slitz/Getty Photographs)
“YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PAY FOR AN ENDORSEMENT. IT IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL TO DO SO,” the President wrote in his submit. “Can you imagine what would happen if politicians started paying for people to endorse them. All hell would break out!”
To be clear, there isn’t a proof that any of the folks named in Trump’s diatribe have been paid for his or her endorsement by the Democratic marketing campaign.
And but.
“Kamala, and all of those that received Endorsement money, BROKE THE LAW. They should all be prosecuted!” Trump added.
Oprah beforehand mentioned she “was not paid a dime” to look alongside Harris, whose marketing campaign lined $1 million in manufacturing prices for a live-streamed occasion with the discuss present legend many months in the past.
“The people who worked on that production needed to be paid. And were. End of story,” Oprah mentioned on the time.
Donald Trump reacts as he performs a spherical of golf at Trump Turnberry golf course throughout his go to to the UK on July 27, 2025 in Turnberry, Scotland. (Picture by Christopher Furlong/Getty Photographs)
The Harris marketing campaign additionally has denied ever paying Beyonce for her endorsement.
Her marketing campaign did pay her manufacturing firm Parkwood Manufacturing Media LLC $165,000, in response to Federal Elections Fee data.
Beyonce’s mom Tina Knowles mentioned previously that the accusation her daughter was paid for her endorsement is a “lie” and that Beyonce even paid for the flights for herself and her workforce to and from the occasion.
Trump, for his half, has been commenting usually of late on the leisure business.
He’s thrilled that CBS canceled The Late Present this month, for instance, and likewise has threatened to drag the plug on The View.
Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award onstage in the course of the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on April 1, 2024. (Picture Credit score: Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs for iHeartRadio)
In one other pair of posts shortly after 1 a.m. whereas nonetheless in Scotland, Trump threatened NBC and ABC, and steered that networks he believes are “political pawns for the Democrat Party” needs to be stripped of their licenses to broadcast.
“It has become so outrageous that, in my opinion, their licenses could, and should, be revoked! MAGA,” he wrote.
It appears value remembering, of us, that this particular person is accountable for the nuclear codes. He’s probably the most highly effective particular person on this planet.
Appears value remembering, and likewise lamenting.
