Justin Bieber Almost Took $5 Million to Perform at an Event at the RNC

In an truly incredible (I mean that!) report, TMZ revealed that singing Canadian erection Justin Bieber was offered $5 million “to perform at a Republican event during the GOP Convention,” and that he probably would have accepted it had Scooter Braun and LeBron James not intervened.

“What Do You Mean,” you ask? Allow me to quote TMZ:

Sources connected with CAA — the talent agency which reps Bieber and received the offer — tell us a promoter contacted Justin’s people with the offer, saying he would perform for 45 minutes at a venue near Quicken Loans Arena, where the RNC was held.

The $5 million was reportedly raised by big GOP donors, and would have been paid “up front”—presumably as a show of good faith. But even though it represented what was probably his “single biggest payday ever,” Bieber’s manager (and Hillary Clinton supporter) Scooter Braun had his doubts.

We’re told Scooter wasn’t heavy-handed at first, and talked to Justin about putting Black Lives Matter banners up in the venue. We’re told Braun was told he could not display BLM banners, but the donors would accept banners that read “All Lives Matter.” The donors also made it clear … Justin could say nothing disparaging about Trump or the GOP.

Braun told Bieber to make his own decision (It’s your life, bro!), but that choosing to take the gig would lead to him being dropped as a client. This conundrum probably led a three-hour phone call between Bieber and Selena Gomez during which he said things things like, “But baby I love money, and this is so many dollars!”