The Keith Edwards Show - Trump Loses Touch With Reality, Calls for Celebrity Arrests

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

Keith Edwards discusses Donald Trump's recent call for a "major investigation" into Kamala Harris's campaign, alleging that celebrities like Beyoncé and Oprah were paid for their endorsements. Edwards critiques Trump's claims, highlighting the lack of evidence and noting that payments to production companies for event-related costs are standard practice, not illegal endorsements.

I think we all want the president to be working 24-7. We want him to be thinking about things that we don't have to think about, worrying about things that we never have to worry of. That's not the president we have, because though he is up late doing something, it's not work, and the things he's worrying about are not important. In fact, there are lies. They're lies.

Donald Trump last night, with everything going on, everything going on tariffs, multiple wars, an economy struggling. He tweeted this. How much did Kamala Harris pay Bruce Springsteing for his poor performance during her campaign for president? My duty accept that money if he is such a fan of hers.

Isn't that a major and legal campaign contribution? What about Beyonce? How much went to Oprah and Bono? I'm going to call for a major investigation into this matter. candidates aren't allowed to pay for endorsements, which is what Kamala did under the guise of paying for entertainment. In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up persparsed crowds. It's not legal. For these unpatriotic entertainers, this was just a corrupt and unlawful way to capitalize on a broken system.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. A lot of things to break down here. A lot of things to break down here. One, before we get into any of that, that. I just want to point out the reason why he's doing this, because he doesn't want us to focus on the corruption. The planes, the mean coins, the hundreds of billions of dollars going into Trump and his family's pockets. I have some responses to that on the other end of this video, but I want to talk about this first because what he's doing here too is he's trying to make it

so that anyone who ever opposes him is silent about it. He's coming after people who are big names because he wants people who are smaller to never feel like they can actually endorse anyone without it coming back in retaliation. I am almost positive. Beyonce and Oprah are going to get some calls from the federal government, which is insane. And here's what he's talking about. Kamala Harris said, is it interesting too, sorry to, for this non-sequitur, he's never attacking Kamala Harris. He's attacking everyone around her. But he's never like, like, Barack Kamala Harris up. He's like, go up to Beyonce, go up to Oprah. I don't know what that means, but it means something. Records from the Federal Election Commission show that she paid Beyonce's

production company, Parkward Production Media LLC, $165,000. She also paid a million dollars to Oprah's production company and two, $500,000 sums. I think what Oprah said here is basically how everyone else feels about this too. And this is what actually happened. Oprah said in a at the time. I did not take any personal fee. However, the people who worked on that production needed to be paid and were end of story. Right. So she was donating her time. She was endorsing, but she was not taking a fee for doing this thing. And as you know, Oprah did this elaborate production in Michigan. That was like a studio event. It was live streamed for two hours. And so that costs a lot of money. And Oprah, I was like,

Happy to do it, the campaign's got to pay for it. Makes sense to me. Springsteen's production company received $75,000. The President of the United States is worried about someone getting $75,000 in the federal election commission records report that. Just after last year's election, there was also claims that Beyonce was paid $10 million for her appearance in Harris's campaign, and her mom said that was not true. It was a lie. That was a lie. All right. And so then, I swear to God, after he posts this, literally the next day.

The next day. Like, as I was making this video, he posted another tweet. According to news reports, Beyonce was paid $11 million to walk under the stage, quickly endorsed Kamala and walk off to loud booing for never having performed, not even one song. Remember the Democrats in Kamala illegally paid her millions of dollars for doing nothing other and giving a Kamala full-throat endorsement. This is an illegal election scam at the highest level.

It's an illegal campaign contribution. Bruce Springsteen, Oprah, Bono, and perhaps many others have a lot of explaining to do. Another thing with him is it really is the case that every accusation is a confession. So I'm sure he paid people to endorse him. I am sure of it. I am sure of it.

I actually don't know if it's illegal to pay someone for endorsement. I should look that up. I should not just, I don't know. And for the record, as far as I know, it is actually not illegal to pay someone for an endorsement, which makes me feel like Donald Trump has done it. I don't think that's what, I don't think is what happened here. I don't think Kamala Harris paid anyone anything. I think Beyonce wanted to be there. I think Taylor Swift wanted to endorse. I think Oprah wanted to endorse because they understood the gravity of the situation. Also, Kamala Harris was once in a generation presidential candidate, the first black woman to run for a major party ticket. I feel like they probably just wanted to be there.

But let's talk about all these goddamn gifts. Here's what Chris Murphy actually had to say, because this is what he doesn't want us looking at. So we're going to talk about the insanity. But then we're going to talk about the stuff that he doesn't want us to be talking about. Because I know that's what he's trying to do. Why did he choose these three countries to go to for his first major foreign trip? It's not because these are our most important allies or the most important countries in the world, is because these are the three countries willing to pay him off.

Every single one of these countries is giving Trump money, the plane from Qatar and investment in his cryptocurrency scam from the UAE, and they are asking for national security concessions in return. This is the definition of corruption, foreign governments, putting money in the president's pocket, And then the United States giving them national concerted concessions that hurt our own security. By the way, the definition of corruption. So as Trump is worried about what was it?

What was it? $75,000 of the Harris campaign, which, by the way, he won. He won. I just don't get it. You won. You won. Why? Why all of this?

You won, but $75,000 to the production company for Bruce Springsteen's concert because he had to pay staff and feed them. You know, productions cost money. He's worried about that. But as Chris Murphy says here, we have billions of dollars going to Trump. And so I just want to end with this. Senator John Alsoff was on Jen Saki show. And I think he explained this corruption problem.

him so accurately. And he is one to watch because he is running next year in a swing state to keep his seat in the Senate. We need to keep him in the Senate. So we got to start talking about John Ossoff and how important that race is. But thankfully, he's also a great politician. He's a great candidate. You're going to see Ryan this clip. And I will see you next time.

You are very critical of President Biden and his family's foreign business dealings. He supported an impeachment inquiry as a result of it. Are you equally concerned about President Trump's, families, business dealings. Look, there are authorities that police, executive branch ethics rules. I'm not an expert in that. My expertise is here in the House, okay? I'll say that the reason that many people refer to the Bidens as the Biden crime family

is because they were doing all this stuff behind curtains. Whatever that President Trump is doing is out in the open. He seems to be going to great pains, not to call out things that are obviously corrupt. But what did you make up? Of course, because they're all living. living in fear of retaliation from the White House. But we do have to just step back and acknowledge that the depth of corruption and self-dealing and self-enrichment by the Trump family during this term is something that we have never,

ever seen in the United States. At no point in our republic, have we seen anything like this? I mean, you had Jared Kushner took billions of dollars from the Saudis. You've got the president's family going out ahead of his official visits doing. business across the region. You've got the meme coin where foreigners are directly enriching the president and his family and his businesses. And some of them are being quite open. Some of the folks buying this coin are being quite open that they're doing it in order to curry favor or to gain influence. And the president is selling private dinners and White House tours to people who

invest in his family businesses, not to mention the airplane, which is maybe the most extraordinary single obvious constitutional violation in presidential history. It is really mind-blowing, and for the speaker to say that, when it is the explicit role of the United States Congress to investigate and oversee misconduct by the executive branch, when we have all sworn an oath to that constitution, which defines that separation of powers, and that role for the United States Congress,

demonstrates that there is no red line, there is no new depth that this administration can plumb that will get these folks, To give a damn, they're absolutely committed to defending and covering up for this president and this administration no matter what.