Mystery group paid influencers tens of thousands to push sexual smears about Kamala Harris
Around the time Kamala Harris was taking over the reins of the Democratic presidential ticket, a mysterious group reportedly began a smear campaign against her, paying social media influencers tens of thousands of dollars to promote posts, according to reports.
In late July, a network of influencers who had been recruited topush conservative messages about Donald Trump or President Joe Biden throughout the summer, received an email requesting they make colorful sexual insults about Harris, according to Semafor.
In return, they would be paid tens of thousands of dollars via Zelle, a digital payments network.
The email, titled “War Room – Kamala Messaging” was followed by a Zoom invitation from the person who organized the group, a man calling himself James Bacon. On the Zoom call, individuals kept their cameras off and did not identify themselves by name, the report noted.
However, Semafor reports that one person on the call was able to identify an individual who spoke up in protest of making sexual allegations about Harris and later left the call — disgraced Republican congressman George Santos.
The unidentified person who participated in the calls claims Santos broke the usual anonymity to say he disapproved of the messaging which included comparing Harris to the “Hawk Tuah girl” — a woman who went viral for talking about sex — and other crude sexual allegations.
Santos confirmed to The Independent that he was invited to the call and joined out of curiosity but was quickly taken aback by the organizers’ suggestions to call Harris “a hoe” and openly objected to it.
He said the message the organizers provided was “lewd, disgusting and unbecoming of the political process” so he logged off.
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