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Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Leaked Text Messages Are Not Doing the Trumps Any Favors
It’s been quite the week for Don Jr. and his new fiancée.
By Bess Levin
January 5, 2022


It’s been an eventful few days for right-wing royalty Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. On Friday, the couple seemingly revealed that they were engaged, and it was reported that, actually, the spawn of satan had gotten down on one knee a year ago but for some reason they decided to keep it a secret. On Monday, we learned that Don Jr. (along with his sister Ivanka) had been subpoenaed by the New York attorney general, and were reportedly refusing to comply with the order. And on Wednesday, ProPublica reported that text messages sent by Guilfoyle concerning the January 6 rally that preceded the deadly attack on the Capitol suggest Team Trump was even more intimately involved with the planning of the “Stop the Steal” rally than previously thought. Best wishes to the happy couple?

Here’s ProPublica:

Kimberly Guilfoyle, a top fundraiser for former president Donald Trump and the girlfriend of his son Donald Trump Jr., boasted to a GOP operative that she had raised $3 million for the rally that helped fuel the January 6 Capitol riot. In a series of text messages sent on January 4 to Katrina Pierson, the White House liaison to the event, Guilfoyle detailed her fundraising efforts and supported a push to get far-right speakers on the stage alongside Trump for the rally, which sought to overturn the election of President Joe Biden.

Guilfoyle’s texts, reviewed by ProPublica, represent the strongest indication yet that members of the Trump family circle were directly involved in the financing and organization of the rally. The attack on the Capitol that followed it left five dead and scores injured. A House select committee investigating the events of January 6 has subpoenaed more than 30 Trump allies for testimony and documents, including Pierson and Caroline Wren, a former deputy to Guilfoyle. But Guilfoyle herself has so far not received any official scrutiny from Congress.

Guilfoyle’s boasts of the millions she brought in reportedly came amid complaints that she wasn’t going to be allowed to speak on stage at the rally. According to ProPublica, Pierson says that the president personally set the speaker lineup and that there was nothing she could do about it. Guilfoyle reportedly responded that she just wanted to introduce Don Jr., noting that she had “raised so much money for this.… Literally one of my donors Julie at 3 million.” Guilfoyle was apparently referring to Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a Publix supermarket heir who Guilfoyle had cultivated a professional relationship with during the campaign, according to ProPublica.

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Guilfoyle’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, denied to ProPublica that his client had anything to do with fundraising or approving rally speakers, claiming the text from Guilfoyle “did not relate to the Save America rally” and that the “content of the message itself” was “inaccurate” and “taken out of context.” (He did not respond to follow-up questions from the outlet about the accuracy and context of the message.)

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