{"id":2030610,"date":"2023-09-13T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oprah-responds-to-vitriol-over-maui-wildfire-fundraising-campaign-whoa-what-happened-here\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:56:30","slug":"oprah-responds-to-vitriol-over-maui-wildfire-fundraising-campaign-whoa-what-happened-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oprah-responds-to-vitriol-over-maui-wildfire-fundraising-campaign-whoa-what-happened-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah reacts to backlash on Maui wildfire fundraiser: &#8216;What went wrong?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foprah-responds-to-vitriol-over-maui-wildfire-fundraising-campaign-whoa-what-happened-here%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2030610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Oprah Winfrey Addresses Backlash Over \u2063Maui Wildfire Fund<\/h2>\n<p>Oprah Winfrey addressed \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steve-scalise-blasts-biden-order-allowing-covid-vaccine-to-illegal-immigrants\/\" title=\"Steve Scalise Blasts Biden Order Allowing Covid Vaccine To Illegal Immigrants\">intense backlash<\/a> she faced for creating a fund which was meant \u2062to help the victims of the Maui wildfire.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire TV personality\u2062 appeared \u200bTuesday on CBS Mornings to promote her new book, \u201cBuild the\u2063 Life You Want: The Art\u2062 and Science \u200dof Getting Happier.\u201d The topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-gop-governor-visits-u-s-mexico-border-says-drug-cartels-have-a-strategic-plan\/\" title=\"Georgia GOP Governor Visits U.S.-Mexico Border, Says Drug Cartels \u2018Have A Strategic Plan\u2019\">conversation shifted<\/a> to some of the criticism she and fellow Hawaiian property owner Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson have received for\u2063 starting \u2064the People\u2019s Fund of Maui.<\/p>\n<p>Winfrey and Johnson each contributed $5 \u2063million \u2063to\u200b kick off \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candidates-running-to-replace-sen-feinstein-in-2024-collect-millions-for-campaigns\/\" title=\"2024 Senate hopefuls amass millions for campaigns to replace Sen. Feinstein.\">fundraising \u2064efforts<\/a> and petitioned followers\u200b to donate as well.\u200d This led to a\u2062 lot \u2063of negative comments from people who believed Oprah and Johnson should have given more because they are so wealthy.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell, this is a really great point about being happier\u200d in \u2063the midst of\u2062 an onslaught\u200b of being terrorized and \u200dvilified online. I will say this: I \u200dcame out of this\u2062 experience with so much more compassion for young kids, because I was thinking, what if\u2064 I didn\u2019t really\u200d know who\u2063 I am? It will take you out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo all of the online attacks,\u2064 lies,\u200c conspiracy \u2062theories, \u200creally took the focus off of what was the most important thing, which is the people\u2063 of Maui,\u201d Oprah said. \u200c\u201cSo \u200dthis idea came about because I was on the ground, talking to lots\u200b of \u2062people,\u2063 trying to figure out how I can best help.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She mentioned\u2062 how \u2062she started out by donating \u201cmaterial things\u201d such as generators and towels \u200dto the victims of the fire. But\u2064 then the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oprah-responds-to-vitriol-over-maui-wildfire-fundraising-campaign-whoa-what-happened-here\/\" title=\"Oprah reacts to backlash on Maui wildfire fundraiser: 'What went wrong?'\">talk show \u200chost decided<\/a> it would\u2062 be better to give money to the victims directly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThen I started talking to people and people really \u2064wanted their own agency,\u201d she\u200d said. Oprah mentioned how she tried to mimic Dolly Parton\u2019s method of providing aid to victims of the 2017 Gatlinburg, Tennessee, fires. Parton did a benefit concert and handed out the proceeds herself, The Daily Mail noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI \u2063thought,\u2062 \u2018Whoa! That\u2019s the idea. Getting the money into the hands, \u200cdirectly into the hands of \u200dthe people; set up the \u2063infrastructure \u200bfor that,\u2019\u201d Oprah explained. \u201c[Johnson and I] thought, because\u200d both of us \u2064have given to charities our whole lives, that starting the fund \u200cwith $10 million would be \u2062a great idea. We\u2019ll \u2063do what Dolly \u200cdid,\u2063 get other people to give money and then we\u2019ll put it\u200d directly into people\u2019s bank\u2064 accounts,\u201d she went\u2062 on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI was\u2064 so excited. I was so excited about it,\u200c and \u2062then I got up the \u2062next \u200bmorning, and I \u200csaw all of this vitriol, and\u2064 I was, like, \u2018Whoa, what happened here?\u2019\u201d Oprah said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is what I want to say. I want\u200c to say that, in the beginning, so many people were calling, asking, \u2018Where do we give our money to?\u2019 So\u200d I\u200d thought, I\u2019m going\u2063 to give people a place to give \u2062it,\u201d \u2063she went on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oprah\u2064 also mentioned how the\u2062 fund is a success despite that \u2062backlash and that \u200b2,200 people will be getting money from the fund deposited into their\u200c accounts.<\/p>\n<p>She said \u200cit\u2019s \u201csad that we\u2019re in this state in our country,\u201d referring to the online criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah Winfrey faced backlash for her Maui wildfire fund. She discussed it on CBS Mornings while promoting her book, &#8220;Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2030611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}