Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren is accusing Amazon MGM Studios of “bribery in plain sight” for investing in the Melania documentary, despite remaining quite as media outlet after media outlet handed the Obama’s hundreds of millions for their film and podcast projects.
Last year, the studio paid out $40 million to acquire Melania, the documentary about the first lady’s journey to her husband’s second inauguration. The studio paid another $35 million to market the film.
Warren, who has taken massive criticism for falsely claiming to have Native American heritage when she was a law professor at Harvard, ripped MGM for what she calls a “corrupt pay-to-play arrangement with the Trump administration,” according to Variety.
“If there’s nothing corrupt about this deal and the bidding process was truly ‘competitive,’ why won’t Amazon explain why it reportedly paid three times as much as the next highest bidder?” Warren exclaimed. “The
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