Oprah Winfrey says she was baffled over the online “vitriol” in reaction to her asking the public to donate money toward the victims of the Maui wildfires.
“I was so excited about it, and then I got up the next morning, and I saw all of this vitriol, and I was, like, ‘Whoa, what happened here?’” Winfrey said in an interview.
“It made me sad that we are at this state in our country.”
Winfrey also claimed that she faced “an onslaught of being terrorized and vilified online” when she urged the public to give money to help victims of the Maui wildfires.
“All the online, you know, being — attacks, lies, conspiracy theories, really took the focus off of what was the most important thing, and that was the people of Maui,” Winfrey said.
From The Gateway Pundit:
People all over the country are hurting financially and many critics felt that if Oprah really wanted to help, she should have just done it herself. People also didn’t trust her claim that she and The Rock were kicking it off with a ten million dollar donation.
