Cable news network MSNBC claims it was blindsided to learn that a non-profit founded by longtime on-air personality the Rev. Al Sharpton received half a million dollars from Kamala Harris’ campaign just before he interviewed her.
The donations that flowed in just before the New York activist’s conversation with Harris have brought up questions about the news outlet’s credibility.
The National Action Network, a civil rights non-profit that was founded by Sharpton in 1991, received $500,000 from the Harris campaign just weeks before the MSNBC host conducted a highly-anticipated sit-down with the Democrat.
you mean the known tax dodger that hung out in Obama white house.
has he ever settled that tax debt .
maybe the DOGE should start with people like him that are known tax dodgers and nothing is done about it .
Campaign finance records from the 60-year-old’s campaign reveal that two separate payments went to National Action Network.
One payment for $250,000 was sent to the non-profit on Sept. 5 and another for the same amount was sent on Oct. 1.
The softball interview with Sharpton occurred on Oct. 20, just weeks after the second payment.
MSNBC is widely known to be a liberal-leaning channel, and the fact that one of its top talents took in a huge amount of cash just before a consequential interview has caused backlash from journalists who say the outlet’s now got a ‘black eye.’
During the rosy interview, the MSNBC host lavishly praised Harris’ ‘extraordinary historic campaign’ while simultaneously decrying Donald Trump as ‘hostile and erratic.’