Kimberly Guilfoyle spent many years as a Fox News host, and during Donald Trump’s first presidency, she began a long relationship with Donald Trump Jr.; they were engaged but ultimately did not marry. Around the time of Trump’s 2024 campaign, the couple broke up, with Don Jr. getting engaged to another woman, while Guilfoyle, after Trump returned to office, was named ambassador to Greece.
On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster report about Guilfoyle and texts in which she appears to have asked a donor to pay off her credit card bill.
The texts show that Guilfoyle, while preparing for her confirmation hearing in early 2025, “reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.”
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”
w/@DanaMattioli @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ
https://t.co/VTY1PhgEZQ
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) October 7, 2026
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote in a Signal message to Trump donor Eric Deters. The donor, per the Journal, was “seeking her help in getting the attention of the new Trump administration on some personal tax and legal issues—and had promised payments of as much as $1 million if she was successful.”
Stay up-to-date with the latest news!
Subscribe and start recieving our daily emails.
Deter is a lawyer, sometime political candidate, former co-owner of Snappy Tomato Pizza, and radio host. He was once, per the Journal, “banned from entering a courthouse in Ohio’s Hamilton County after threatening on social media to burn it down.”
Guilfoyle needed to get her American Express deal paid down before her confirmation hearing, the newspaper said. The story is full of examples of the type of transactional and possibly corrupt things that happen in the Trump Administration.
I cannot get over how fucking stupid @kimguilfoyle is. Babe!!! Stop documenting our crimes!! Signal me babe!!! Crime me on Signal! https://t.co/wlUAf2ceXT
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) October 7, 2026
“Honey, please, I need you to get this done for me today,” she texted Deters, along with payment instructions. “You could just send it here.”
Deters, the Journal reported, did not make the payment, believing that doing so would “cost him his marriage.” He had various asks of the federal government, including a tax issue, while also seeking the extradition of Abubakar Atiq Durrani, described as “an Ohio doctor who had fled to Pakistan after being charged with defrauding insurers by performing unnecessary spinal surgeries, including on children”; Deters is representing people who are suing the doctor.
He also, the Journal says, offered Guilfoyle $1 million if she could get him an interview on Tucker Carlson’s show.
“A million dollars for a podcast appearance? Isn’t she the ambassador to Greece? This is completely nuts,” Carlson told the newspaper.
At one point, Deters wrote a letter telling Guilfoyle, “I have paid you $300,000 over the years… As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.” Her response was to tell him to stop putting such things in writing.
Deters also, per the newspaper, wrote a song called “Kentucky Outlaw,” and wanted Guilfoyle to pass the lyrics on to Kid Rock.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio happened to be in Greece when the story broke and praised Guilfoyle, saying, “Our ambassador has been a strong ambassador.”
Photo courtesy of the Political Tribune media library.
