Kimberly Guilfoyle caught red-handed, must resign 

Kimberly Guilfoyle is the current U.S. ambassador to Greece and a longtime cheerleader for President Trump. She is also a former Fox News personality, long-ago ex-wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), and, more recently, ex-girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr.  

And she’s for sale.  

The Wall Street Journal has the receipts: Guilfoyle promised Eric Deters, a quixotic political operative and fundraiser for Republicans, special access to a number of administration officials who might help him with his pet causes, which included a dispute over his taxes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In exchange, she wanted $100,000 to help pay off her credit card debt. 

“You could just send it here,” she wrote, texting Deters a link to the American Express website. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express that’s all that will show.”  

Guilfoyle was keenly aware of the impropriety and repeatedly texted Deters to stop providing written evidence of their dealings and instead just call her up if need be — and to pay the money. “What a nightmare,” she wrote at one point. “You’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship stop writing.”  

Deters did not pay off Guilfoyle’s credit card debt, though she did contact IRS Commissioner Billy Long about his case. She also bragged about her access to a host of other top Trump officials: FBI Director Kash Patel, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, and others. “Every secretary of you know defense, transportation, treasury commerce IRS commissioner everyone gets right back to me,” she told Deters in 2024.  

So, first, this is nakedly corrupt, and Guilfoyle should resign as ambassador or be impeached and removed. She cannot be trusted to represent U.S. interests abroad when she has proven that she is willing to peddle influence with the Trump administration in exchange........

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