News Summary

• By Miles Klee For reasons yet to be explained, a super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s presidential campaign falsely advertised a forthcoming fundraiser featuring a performance from famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and several other celebrity guests..
• At the end of December, the Daily Mail reported — citing unspecified “organizers” — that Kennedy’s campaign would throw a “multi-million dollar” fundraiser later this month for the anti-vax candidate in Indian Wells, a resort town in the California desert..
• A member of Kennedy’s press team, in an email to Rolling Stone, wrote that the “Indian Wells fundraiser is a PAC event,” apparently referring to American Values 24, and therefore the campaign “doesn’t have anything to do” with organizing it..
• If you are going to lie on my name, at least lie about something cool.“Revealed: Dionne collaborates with Rihanna on new album…” pic.twitter.com/Fve7W3Ikhl On Thursday, Sheen followed suit, clarifying in an Instagram Story that he wouldn’t be at the party and wasn’t endorsing Kennedy at all..
• The article related that Bocelli would lend his voice for the evening, presumably to encourage guests to get out their checkbooks as they did when Covid-19 conspiracy theorist Eric Clapton played at a Brentwood, California, fundraiser for Kennedy in September, donating $2.2 million..
• “The campaign has no knowledge of who is attending and can’t confirm or deny anyone’s participation, either as entertainment or as a guest,” the statement concluded..