Trump: “I will ask for an investigation on Springsteen, Beyoncé and Bono”

After responding to Bruce Springsteen for what he said during his concert and having stressed that “since I said that I hate Taylor Swift she is no more hot”, now the president of the United States Donalds Trump has also targeted Beyoncé and Bono on whom he wants to ask for an “important investigation”. As taken from the New York Times, the guard and others, the current tenant of the White House has harshly attacked some celebrities who supported Kamala Harris with a series of night and morning outbursts on Monday, declaring that it intends to start an investigation to check if they were paid for such endorsement. “How much Kamala Harris paid to Bruce Springsteen for her bad performance during her presidential campaign,” Trump wrote all in capital letters on his social, Truth Social, at 1:34 am on Monday. And again: “Why did you accept that money, if is it really a fan of his? Isn’t it forces an illegal and relevant electrral contribution? And how much did it go to Oprah, and Bono?”.

Subsequently, Donald Trump declared that he will call “a great investigation” on the matter, claiming that Harris is illegally paying the celebrities for their endorsement “under the coverage of payments for shows” and that these operations have artificially inflated his campaign and turnout at his events. “It is not legal!”, Trump reiterated: “For these non -patriotic ‘artists’, it was only a corrupt and illegal way to take advantage of a fallacious system”.

In the following hours, the President of the USA then went back the dose by claiming, always without providing any evidence, that Beyoncé was paid 11 million dollars to go on stage and support Harris without even performing. “It is an illegal electoral scam at the highest levels! It is an illegal electoral contribution!” Trump said: “Bruce Springsteen, Oprah, Bono and perhaps many others have a lot to explain !!!”.

As explained by the Guardian, Trump is increasingly using the United States Department of Justice to carry out his retaliation agenda, ordering investigations against his opponents and the closure of the investigations against his allies. Some legal experts have defined the Department of the “personal legal signature” of Trump. Although he has been very close to celebrities in the past, Lately Trump has therefore targeted several leading artists who have supported Kamala Harris. Secondk what was clarified by the Federal Element Commission to the Fact Checking site “Verify” in 2022, the law does not prohibit candidates to pay to obtain endorsement. However, problems may arise if the expenses are not declared specifically as payments in exchange for an endorsement. The accusations according to which Harris would pay the celebrities are not new, but Trump did not provide any evidence in support of his statements. Harris’ electoral committee has denied having never paid someone for an endorsement, and the celebrities involved have denied having received compensation for their support.

In the financial reports of the Harris campaign, always reports the Guardian, it is found that the Oprah production company, Harpo, received a payment of 1 million dollars for an event “Town Hall”, while Beyoncé’s production company received 165,000 dollars.