The Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s claims that he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to endorse former Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign during the 2024 election cycle.

“Absolutely not,” Sharpton said during an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe when asked if he was paid to endorse Harris. He further accused Trump of using the allegations as a last-ditch attempt to distract from fallout over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, arguing that the president is “trying to flood the zone to take any pressure off of him and try to put his MAGA base back together again.”