The Memo: Guilfoyle furor rises as Trump stops short of expressing support

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Kimberly Guilfoyle scandal adds to scrutiny surrounding Trump advisors

Kimberly Guilfoyle scandal adds to scrutiny surrounding Trump advisors

The uproar isn’t dying down over U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle and her reported request to have a MAGA donor pay down her personal credit card debt.

President Trump, when asked about the matter as he prepared to leave for New York Friday, was conspicuously noncommittal.

“I just heard about it: Too bad,” Trump said, adding, “I don’t know too much. But she was always very nice.”

Earlier Friday, a similar question was posed to Vice President Vance. He said only “allegations” had emerged so far, and added, “We don’t try people in the court of public opinion. We try people in a court of law.”

Vance said he had known Guilfoyle — an erstwhile Fox News personality who was previously engaged to the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — “for a long time.” But he acknowledged that “obviously if there was something bad that happened, then people have to suffer consequences for it.”

Neither Trump’s nor Vance’s comments equated to a forceful vote of confidence in Guilfoyle, who is also the ex-wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). Guilfoyle and Newsom divorced 20 years ago.

The bigger political question is whether the story will become part of a larger narrative of alleged unethical behavior on the part of the Trump administration as the midterms near.

Democrats are avidly making that case. 

Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor who is exploring a 2028 presidential bid, wrote on social media that the reports about Guilfoyle’s behavior were part of a........

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