Kimberly Guilfoyle, the United States’ ambassador to Greece and a longtime booster of President Donald Trump, is also a former Fox News personality, a former wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom (D–Calif.), and more recently, the former girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr. And she appears to be for sale.

The Wall Street Journal has the receipts: Guilfoyle reportedly offered Eric Deters, a persistent political operative and Republican fundraiser, privileged access to several administration officials who could aid him in his pet issues, including a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service. In return, she asked for $100,000 to help settle her credit card debt.

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

Guilfoyle was acutely aware that such arrangements crossed lines and repeatedly urged Deters to stop leaving written records of their dealings and to simply call her when necessary—and to deliver the money.

“What a nightmare,” she texted at one point. “You’ll literally cost me my ambassadorship—stop writing.”

Deters did not pay Guilfoyle’s debt, though she did reach out to IRS Commissioner Billy Long about his case. She also boasted 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 defense, transportation, treasury, commerce, IRS commissioner—everyone gets right back to me,” she told Deters in 2024.

Consequently, this is plainly corrupt, and Guilfoyle ought to resign as ambassador or face impeachment and removal. If she cannot be trusted to represent U.S. interests abroad when she has shown a willingness to trade access for personal gain, she has to step aside.

Second, it’s fair to interrogate Donald Trump Jr., whose relationship with Guilfoyle ended before her nomination as Greece’s ambassador; yet in the IRS commissioner’s message she notes, “Don Jr. and I are very close with Eric Deters.” Trump Jr. later wed a model, Bettina Anderson. Their wedding was reportedly financed in secret by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch. (Kremlev has since claimed that Trump Jr. repaid him. While the oligarch maintains he merely wanted to give the couple a nice wedding gift, one would be remiss not to wonder if the real aim was to influence the administration’s stance toward Russia. It’s possible Trump anticipated this and avoided the wedding for exactly that reason.)

My point is straightforward: accumulating evidence suggests Guilfoyle and Trump Jr. belong to a class of figures who will accept money for favors. (Perhaps not always knowingly on Trump Jr.’s part, but Guilfoyle’s actions appear clearly purposeful.) Even though they are no longer together, they once formed a power couple at the heart of Trump’s orbit during his first term.

This issue matters to me as a observer of hypocrisy, especially given the Hunter Biden controversy. He became the focus of numerous investigations amid allegations that foreign interests paid him to influence his father, President Joe Biden. Republicans seized on that issue and pressed hard—understandably so. I criticized Biden for pardoning his son, viewing it as a misuse of presidential power to thwart a legitimate inquiry into his actions.

But there is a stark, undeniable fact: Trump Jr. allowing a Russian oligarch to pay for his wedding is at least as troubling as anything Hunter Biden did. And now Guilfoyle, his ex-girlfriend, is caught in a kickback-esque scenario that echoes the “Biden crime family” framing. By any reasonable standard, this is as bad as, if not worse than, the parallel controversies elsewhere.

Regrettably, I expect many Republicans and conservative voices to meet these disclosures with the same silence Democrats showed when Hunter Biden was under the spotlight. I hope I am mistaken, though.

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On a related note, I participated in a debate with journalist Sohrab Ahmari, hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. The topic was “Do Oligarchs Run America?” ISI is a superb organization, and Ahmari is a thoughtful debater, making this a particularly worthwhile exchange. Watch and share!