总统唐纳德·特朗普呼吁对前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯在2024年总统竞选期间接受的几项名人代言进行“重大调查”，并提出没有证据表明一些名人因其代言而非法获得报酬。
一些名人公开否认收取任何费用，专家说没有联邦选举委员会的法律禁止为代言支付竞选费用。
总统暗示，奥普拉·温弗瑞、布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀和碧昂斯等名人因代言而非法获得报酬，这些人去年都曾出现在哈里斯的竞选活动中。
特朗普周一在两条社交媒体帖子中写道:“候选人不允许为代言付费，这就是卡玛拉所做的，打着为娱乐付费的幌子。”。
哈里斯竞选团队为温弗瑞、斯普林斯汀和碧昂斯创办的制作公司在2024年大选期间和之后提供的服务支付了费用——但温弗瑞和碧昂斯的母亲，经营着她的制作公司，都表示这些费用是与他们参加的活动相关的制作成本。
竞选法律专家告诉美国广播公司新闻，联邦选举委员会没有规定禁止联邦竞选活动向名人或有影响力的人支付代言费，也不会像特朗普所说的那样被视为非法捐款-只要这些付款得到适当披露。专家称，美国联邦贸易委员会负责监督有偿代言的信息披露义务。
竞选财务披露显示，哈里斯竞选团队在2024年10月15日向温弗瑞的公司Harpo Productions支付了总计100万美元的“活动制作费”，大约在温弗瑞之后一个月采访了哈里斯9月在底特律举行的“团结为美国”活动上。
“我没有拿任何个人费用。然而，从事生产的人需要得到报酬，而且也确实得到了报酬。故事结束，”温弗瑞在社交媒体视频中回应特朗普的指控时说。
2024年11月19日，也就是碧昂斯去世几周后，哈里斯竞选团队向碧昂斯的公司帕克伍德制作媒体有限责任公司支付了16.5万美元走上舞台根据竞选记录，哈里斯在休斯顿的竞选集会上公开支持哈里斯。
碧昂斯的母亲蒂娜·诺尔斯在一个社交媒体视频中表示，指控她的女儿为她的代言付费是一个“谎言”，并补充说碧昂斯还为自己和她的团队支付了往返活动的机票费用。
记录显示，2024年11月19日，哈里斯竞选团队向斯普林斯汀的制作公司Thrill Hill Productions，Inc .支付了大约7.5万美元的“旅行和活动制作费”，大约在他在佐治亚州哈里斯竞选集会上表演后一个月。斯普林斯汀还没有公开提及竞选团队向他的公司支付的费用。
去年，随着关于哈里斯竞选团队为名人代言付费的毫无根据的说法传播开来，高级竞选顾问阿德里安娜·埃尔罗德告诉最后期限，“我们不付钱。我们从来没有支付任何艺术家和演员。我们从未向那个人支付过费用。”
埃尔罗德指出，联邦选举委员会的规则要求竞选活动为举办活动的辅助成本支付公平的市场价值，他告诉Deadline，竞选活动已经支付了“任何表演的辅助成本”，并且“在这场竞选活动中，我们一直严格遵守必须遵守的法律。”
在这些年来出现在特朗普竞选活动中并表演的名人中，美国广播公司新闻没有发现特朗普竞选团队或特朗普的其他实体向他们或他们的公司支付费用的记录。
乡村歌手李·格林伍德(Lee Greenwood)的歌曲《上帝保佑美国》(God Bless the USA)经常出现在特朗普的集会上，他自己也曾在特朗普的竞选活动中表演过，他于11月在社交媒体上表示，特朗普竞选团队或特朗普组织没有为他的竞选活动支付“任何形式”的报酬，他说他“很高兴一直支持”特朗普。
Trump calls for 'major investigation' into Kamala Harris' celebrity endorsements
PresidentDonald Trumphas called for a "major investigation" into several celebrity endorsements former Vice President Kamala Harris received during the 2024 presidential campaign, suggesting without evidence that some of the celebrities were illegally paid for their endorsements.
Some of the celebrities have publicly denied denying being paid any fee at all, and experts say there's no FEC law barring campaign payments for endorsements.
Among the celebrities the president suggests were illegally paid for their endorsements are Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce, each of whom appeared at Harris campaign events last year.
"Candidates aren't allowed to pay for ENDORSEMENTS, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment," Trump wrote in a pair of social media posts Monday.
The Harris campaign paid production companies founded by Winfrey, Springsteen and Beyonce for services provided during and after the 2024 election -- but Winfrey and Beyonce's mother, who runs her production company, both said the payments were for production costs associated with the events they participated in.
Campaign law experts told ABC News that the Federal Election Commission has no regulations against federal campaigns paying celebrities or influencers for endorsements, nor would they be considered illegal contributions as Trump suggested -- as long as those payments are properly disclosed. The Federal Trade Commission oversees disclosure obligations for paid endorsement, the experts said.
Campaign finance disclosures show the Harris campaign paid Winfrey's company, Harpo Productions, a total of $1 million for "event production" on Oct. 15, 2024, roughly a month after Winfreyinterviewed Harrisat a "Unite for America" campaign event in Detroit in September.
"I did not take any personal fee. However, the people who worked on that production needed to be paid and were. End of story," Winfrey said in a social media video in response to Trump's accusation.
The Harris campaign paid Beyonce's company, Parkwood Production Media LLC, $165,000 on Nov. 19, 2024, weeks after Beyoncetook the stageat a Harris campaign rally in Houston and publicly endorsed Harris, according to campaign records.
Beyonce's mother Tina Knowles, in a social media video, said the accusation that her daughter was paid for her endorsement is a "lie," adding that Beyonce also paid for the flights for herself and her team to and from the event.
The Harris campaign paid Springsteen's production company, Thrill Hill Productions, Inc., roughly $75,000 for "travel and event production" on Nov. 19, 2024, roughly a month after he performed at a Harris campaign rally in Georgia, records show. Springsteen has not publicly addressed the campaign's payment to his company.
Last year as unfounded claims about the Harris campaign's payments for celebrity endorsements spread, senior campaign adviser Adrienne Elrod toldDeadline, "We do not pay. We have never paid any artist and performer. We have never paid a fee to that person."
Noting that FEC rules require campaigns to pay fair market value for the ancillary costs of holding events, Elrod told Deadline the campaign has paid "for any ancillary costs for that performance” and that "there are laws that have to be followed that we have followed religiously on this campaign."
Among the celebrities who have appeared and performed at Trump's campaign events over the years, ABC News has found no records of the Trump campaign or Trump's other entities paying them or their companies.
Country singer Lee Greenwood, whose song "God Bless the USA" is frequently featured at Trump rallies and who has performed at Trump campaign events himself, stated on social media in November that he had not been compensated in "any form" by the Trump campaign or the Trump Organization for his campaign appearances, saying he's "happy to have stood by" Trump.
