The Trump administration is reportedly weighing whether to remove U.S. ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle from her role as new allegations emerge that wealthy Greek businessmen paid for her luxury travel while she used her diplomatic position to lobby their business interests. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal…
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Ambassador short on cash for her AmEx bill tells Greek businessman she'll make him rich
As it ran on the front
Kimberly Guilfoyle's government salary, as Ambassador to Greece, is a matter of public record, set by the State Department pay schedule. That number is not in dispute. What came after it is.
On October 8, the Wall Street Journal reported, and the Hill relayed, that days before her confirmation hearing last year, Guilfoyle asked a Trump donor, Eric Deters, to wire $100,000 directly to her American Express account. Her instructions, as quoted: "You could just send it here. It won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express."…
…(cont) Three days later, on October 11, the Hill reported a second transaction, smaller in dollar terms and larger in implication: Guilfoyle telling a wealthy Greek businessman, "I'm going to make you a lot of f---ing money." The same report says the Trump administration is weighing whether to remove her, amid allegations that Greek businessmen covered her luxury travel while she used her diplomatic position to lobby on behalf of their business interests. Reconcile the two dates and the arithmetic holds: an ambassador asked a donor to quietly cover a personal debt, then promised a foreign businessman profit, in the same stretch of days her own bill sat outstanding.
Asked about the first report on October 8, Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not deny it. He called it, on his way from Greece to Portugal, "it's not the gospel." The Washington Examiner's account has him frustrated that reporters wanted comment at all. A spokesman's usual line is that a report is false. Rubio's line only said it wasn't scripture — which, taken literally, means it isn't yet officially disproven either.
The gap this desk measures runs in a straight line: a government salary, a $100,000 personal wire to a credit card company, a promise of profit to a foreign businessman, and a non-denial from the man who runs the State Department. The reconciliation is not complicated. It is just unfinished, by design.
“She's broke enough to beg a donor to cover her AmEx bill, but flush enough to promise some Greek millionaire she'll make him rich — that tells you the job. Rubio won't even say the report's false, he just says it ain't the Bible, and calling something "not scripture" is a funny way to call it a lie if it's a lie. Watch who she's lobbying for over there, because that's where the actual money's moving.”
“Look, nobody's proven anything here, the Secretary was simply noting that a single newspaper report isn't — and I want to be precise — isn't holy writ, which, hearing myself say it, doesn't exactly sound like a denial. The Ambassador has every right to manage her personal finances privately, that's just normal, that's just — okay, "privately" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Did I say that? That's not landing the way I wanted.”
The receipts
· Guilfoyle asked GOP donor to wire her $100K for AmEx bill: Wall Street Journal report from the morgue, 8 Oct 2026
· Marco Rubio brushes off questions about Kimberly Guilfoyle pressing donor to pay credit card from the morgue, 8 Oct 2026
· Rubio criticizes media for demanding comment on Guilfoyle report: ‘It’s not the gospel’ from the morgue, 8 Oct 2026
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