"Babe, Wire Me the Money" Text Fallout… Distance Kept: "She Wasn't Family"

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Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. Ambassador to Greece, has resigned amid allegations of corruption. Although President Trump appointed Guilfoyle—his son's former fiancée—as ambassador to Greece, he ultimately appears to have turned his back on her.

Videomug's Jo Gi-ho brings us the details.

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Recently, The Wall Street Journal exposed allegations of corruption surrounding Ambassador Guilfoyle.

The report detailed that in July of last year, Guilfoyle asked Eric Deters, a businessman and donor to President Trump, for 100,000 dollars, which is approximately 130 million won.

As evidence, text messages exchanged between the two were made public.

[Babe, please handle this within today. If you wire it directly through American Express, it leaves no record anywhere. Please, I'm begging you.]

Furthermore, this text was sent at a time when Guilfoyle had been nominated as ambassador to Greece and was just days away from her Senate confirmation hearing.

U.S. media reported that Deters, the recipient of the text, stated, "I had paid 300,000 dollars before that too, but received no help at all; it was an absolute quid pro quo transaction."

In response, Guilfoyle's side explained that the money requested was unpaid speaking fees from the past.

However, suspicions continued to pour out.

Suspicions were successively uncovered that she used a private jet belonging to a Greek shipping tycoon to attend a Paris fashion show, and that the expenses for her stay at a luxury hotel in Paris at the time were also paid for by the head of a Greek construction company.

There were even suspicions that Guilfoyle championed the interests of a Greek energy company and had its lobbyist sit in on diplomatic meetings.

Despite all sorts of corruption allegations coming to light, U.S. Secretary of State Rubio defended Guilfoyle.

He stated, "Our ambassador is a strong ambassador."

President Trump also initially gave a lukewarm response.

[Donald Trump / U.S. President : (Are you considering removing her?) Well, we're looking at it. Yeah, we're not satisfied.]

However, as politicians began demanding an investigation into Guilfoyle's corruption, and seemingly judging that it could act as a negative factor in the upcoming midterm elections, he turned to a mode of cutting ties.

[Donald Trump / U.S. President : I didn't say anything to her, but she's not going to stay as ambassador to Greece. The articles that I read, not good.]

Ultimately, Guilfoyle stepped down from her position of her own accord on October 13 local time.

Guilfoyle was a host on U.S. Fox News.

She is also the ex-wife of Gavin Newsom, a heavyweight Democratic politician and political rival of President Trump.

She was engaged to Trump's eldest son, but they broke off their engagement in September 2024.

Having been the wife of a prominent Democratic presidential contender, passing through the conservative Fox News as a host, Guilfoyle almost became part of the Republican presidential family.

Perhaps out of regret that she could not become his daughter-in-law, Trump nominated Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece in December 2024 in his capacity as president-elect.

Even so, right after the corruption allegations surfaced, Trump showed a clear stance of drawing a line.

[Donald Trump / U.S. President : Guilfoyle wasn't our family. She used to date my son, I guess, but she wasn't family.]

Having taken office as the first female U.S. ambassador to Greece, Guilfoyle stepped down in less than a year engulfed in various corruption allegations.

While local criticism in Greece regarding her effective dismissal suggests that "the U.S. Embassy is failing to function properly," attention is focused on whether her corruption will end as a personal deviation or spread to the Greek political and business circles.
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