Just weeks before Vice President Kamala Harris sat for a friendly interview with MSNBC’s Al Sharpton, her presidential campaign donated $500,000 to his non-profit organization.
Washington Free Beacon reported that, according to campaign finance records, the National Action Network received two payments of $250,000 on Sept. 5 and Oct. 1 which were “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.”
The race-baiting host of the MSNBC weekend show, “PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton” praised Harris and her “extraordinary historic campaign” during the fawning interview on October 20, just a few weeks shy of Election Day. Sharpton never disclosed the donations as he conducted one of the few sit-down interviews granted by the then-Democratic nominee.
The more she talks – the better. She is talking her way right out of any chance of victory. Thankfully.
Al Sharpton sets Kamala up to whine about Trump for calling her the ‘S-Word’ https://t.co/WEAMVzmced via @americanwire_
— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) October 21, 2024
The National Action Network donations were part of a wave of similar donations to black activist organizations in failed efforts to reach voters for Harris.
According to the Free Beacon:
Team Harris donated to the National Urban League ($2 million), the Black Economic Alliance ($150,000), and Black Church PAC ($150,000). The campaign gave donations to lesser-known groups like the Haitian Ladies Fund ($30,000) and International Free and Accepted Modern Masons ($150,000), a black freemasons organization, according to campaign finance disclosures. The Black Economic Alliance hosted a video call for 5,000 attendees days before the election to urge black men to vote for Harris. Vote to Live Action Fund, which received $275,000 from the Harris campaign, launched a $4 million initiative in October to pressure black men to vote. Harris spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on an initiative to appeal to black church voters. Two of the organizations, Black Church PAC and the Institute of Church Administration and Management ($250,000), are linked to Frederick Haynes, an anti-Israel pastor who has worked with Harris for years on liberal causes.
The National Action Network was founded by Sharpton in 1991and it reportedly paid him about $650,000 in 2021 out of $7 million in revenues.
Following the donations by Harris’s campaign and ahead of her interview, the VP wished Sharpton a happy birthday in a video message he aired on his show.
“You have been over all of your years such an extraordinary leader. You have been a voice of truth, a voice of conscience,” she said in the clip,
Kamala Harris’ campaign reportedly paid Al Sharpton’s nonprofit $500k in two installments. Weeks later, he hosted her on MSNBC, taking shots at Trump. Convenient timing? 🤨
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) November 12, 2024
During the MSNBC interview, Sharpton echoed Democrat talking points and defended Harris’s record while blasting former President Donald Trump as “hostile and erratic.”
