"The Harris-Walz campaign funneled some $500,000 to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s nonprofit, the National Action Network, prior to the vice president’s softball sit-down interview with the civil rights activist.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ team made two donations of $250,000 to Sharpton’s group on Sept. 5 and Oct. 1 respectively, according to Federal Election Commission records..."

Harris, 60, sat down with Sharpton, 70, for an MSNBC interview that aired on Oct. 20, just shy of three weeks after the donations from her campaign to the National Action Network.

"Sharpton heaped praise on Harris during the sit-down, at one point drawing parallels to Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress who later unsuccessfully vied for the presidency in 1972.

During that interview on his “PoliticsNation” show, Harris also glossed over Sharpton bringing up complaints that she was “too progressive.” The outgoing vice president has long had a friendly rapport with the reverend, dating back decades.

At the start of October, Sharpton played a video of her wishing him a happy birthday and hailing him as an “extraordinary leader” and “a voice of truth.”

Sharpton has been a controversial figure for some of his incendiary remarks on race. Back in the early 1990s, he was quoted as describing Jews as “the diamond merchants” and railing against “white interlopers.”

Since Harris’ election defeat, it was revealed by the Washington Examiner that her campaign spent $1 million on one of Oprah Winfrey’s production companies and about six figures to create a set for the veep’s interview on the “Call Her Daddy” sex podcast.

Winfrey, 70, has denied she received any money from the payment to her company Harpo Productions."

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