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Donor Eric Deters describes a “pay to play” arrangement with US president Donald Trump’s friends/family circle in which he fully participated until one member of that circle–Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr.–took things $100,000 too far.

According to the New York Times, Deters claims he “paid $300,000 to Ms. Guilfoyle, $200,000 to Donald Trump Jr. and $100,000 to Eric Trump to speak at [Patriots Day Freedom Fest] events between 2021 and 2024.”

Deters apparently thought he was buying influence, or at least access, not just cheesy campaign speeches, with that money.

In particular, he says, he asked Guilfoyle to help him resolve an IRS “issue,” and get the US Department of Justice to demand extradition of a doctor from Pakistan over botched spinal surgeries (he........

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