Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly pressed a MAGA donor to wire $100,000 to her American Express account in a no-trail transfer days before her Senate confirmation hearing for ambassador to Greece.
The Daily Caller reported that President Donald Trump’s pick for the Athens post made the request over the encrypted app Signal on July 3, 2025, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Her confirmation hearing was set for July 9. Eric Deters, a former Kentucky congressional candidate and donor, never sent the money. He told her it would end his marriage.
Guilfoyle followed the pitch with a bill-payment PDF. The messages capture her urgency and her preference for a clean paper trail.
"It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,"
she wrote, per the Journal’s review of the Signal exchange.
"Honey please I need you to get this done for me today."
She also told him to keep the money talk quiet.
"Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,"
Guilfoyle wrote, and she directed him to call on Signal.
The two had traded messages for months before the July request. Deters offered as much as $1 million if Guilfoyle could win him attention from the new administration on personal tax and legal matters.
She agreed to press Justice Department and IRS officials on his behalf. She also worked to book him an interview with Tucker Carlson.
Carlson told the Journal he had never heard of Deters.
"A million dollars for a podcast appearance? Isn’t she the ambassador to Greece? This is completely nuts,"
Carlson said.
Deters countered that he owed her nothing. Guilfoyle’s attorney, Jesse Binnall, challenged the authenticity of the messages but offered no specifics. Binnall said she was owed money for speaking at events before her nomination.
The Senate confirmed Guilfoyle on Sept. 18, 2025. She took up the Greece post in November.
Democratic lawmakers later pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to examine her promotion of the Greek firm Aktor Group and her travel with its lobbyist. The Daily Wire reported that pressure.
Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., went further on the donor messages.
Meeks called her “unfit to represent the United States abroad” if the accounts hold up.
Deters did not send the $100,000. No arrests or formal charges appear in the reporting. The Wall Street Journal posted about the exchange on X in October 2026, highlighting Guilfoyle’s “Honey please” line and the Amex request.
The core dispute is plain. One side describes a debt for past speaking work. The other describes a donor who wanted administration help on tax and legal problems and who refused a large wire that would leave no obvious record.
Public officials who handle money and influence owe voters a clear ledger. Quiet wires to credit cards days before a confirmation hearing fail that basic test, whatever the final explanation turns out to be.
