Some controversial waves rolled through Trump World this week after the January 6th House Select Committee revealed through their explosive publicly televised hearings that Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, raked in a fat ole $60,000 paycheck for the “two and a half minutes” of introduction she gave for her own significant other during Donald Trump’s infamous January 6th, 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally outside the Capitol building, just hours before Trump’s rabid supporters would go on to violently storm the nation’s Capitol with Congress inside, in a desperate attempt to stop the certification of the Electoral College votes in Joe Biden’s favor.
The bombshell news left Trump insiders rather miffed, according to New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman who revealed in a recent CNN segment, “They are aghast that this is the amount of money that she got for a speech to introduce her boyfriend. They couldn’t really get over it.”
And now, it seems that a handful of unnamed sources who are more than like allies of Kimberly are coming forward in what appears to be an attempt at some damage control over the scandal — attempting to fill in some of the details of Kim’s controversial payday in an effort to make it seem not as bad as it really is.
This week, two unnamed inside sources spoke with The Washington Post‘s Isaac Stanley-Becker and Beth Reinhard and claimed that the massive feel — funneled through Turning Point Action — was actually paid for by a single wealthy donor.
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The report reads:
For her appearance, she was compensated $60,000 by Turning Point Action, a conservative nonprofit led by Charlie Kirk, according to two people with knowledge of her compensation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.
The two people said the sponsoring donor was Julie Fancelli, the 72-year-old daughter of the founder of the Publix grocery store chain.
Eight days before the Jan. 6 rally, Fancelli wired $650,000 to several organizations that helped stage and promote the event.”
Kimberly’s payday scandal came hot on the heels of the bombshell revelation that Donald Trump has essentially been scamming his own supporters into donating to his “official election defense fund” — which, as it turns out, doesn’t even exist.
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