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babylonsister

(171,082 posts)
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 11:23 PM Jan 2022

Kimberly Guilfoyle's Leaked Text Messages Are Not Doing the Trumps Any Favors

Levin Report
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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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/kimberley-guilfoyle-donald-trump-jr-january-6-rally
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Kimberly Guilfoyle's Leaked Text Messages Are Not Doing the Trumps Any Favors (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2022 OP
The best is yet to come! GoCubsGo Jan 2022 #1
You beat me to it Walleye Jan 2022 #5
The video.... sheshe2 Jan 2022 #7
Oh my. Scary... elias7 Jan 2022 #44
lol Their bar is low. Cha Jan 2022 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2022 #28
Imagine waking up beside that each morning. SergeStorms Jan 2022 #35
Damn that's a lotta lap dances! Blue Owl Jan 2022 #2
a.k.a - thunderthigh 's !! monkeyman1 Jan 2022 #17
Leak on, Kim, leak on! Retrograde Jan 2022 #3
Garland said he was following the money.The best.Is yet.To come! Walleye Jan 2022 #4
Lol sheshe2 Jan 2022 #8
Spouses don't have to testify choie Jan 2022 #6
We won't need her testimony she's compulsive about it. She'll just blab Walleye Jan 2022 #10
Only if they were married before the crime happened. tinrobot Jan 2022 #23
Ah - I didn't know that! choie Jan 2022 #63
Awww - "too bad" Keep on, keeping on Kimmie! 👍 electric_blue68 Jan 2022 #9
Are they in all caps? lame54 Jan 2022 #11
No one told me that there'd be Tacopino squirming. Delightful! czarjak Jan 2022 #13
Weird tidbit about money Guilfoyle supposedly raised: viva la Jan 2022 #14
"The republican Attorneys General.... SergeStorms Jan 2022 #36
Yeah... I just don't get it. viva la Jan 2022 #43
These funding groups are giving for their own benefit, via campaigning for Defeated Former President msfiddlestix Jan 2022 #54
And there are all those grifters pardoned by TFG- viva la Jan 2022 #61
✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t msfiddlestix Jan 2022 #62
Might be why Quday is marrying his mom 48656c6c6f20 Jan 2022 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2022 #16
Turns out it doesn't jmowreader Jan 2022 #24
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2022 #25
I know they're not done criming jmowreader Jan 2022 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2022 #33
You nailed it malaise Jan 2022 #46
This will be fun to watch LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #60
Is donating to a insurrection legal ???? just wondering? monkeyman1 Jan 2022 #18
Republicans don't care about laws. SergeStorms Jan 2022 #37
That witch Pantagruel Jan 2022 #19
I KNOW! I can't wrap my head around the fact that Newsome is actually her ex. maddiemom Jan 2022 #27
Do they have a family wing at Leavenworth? Ford_Prefect Jan 2022 #20
They don't need to throw these awful people in Leavenworth jmowreader Jan 2022 #30
I'm anticipating a "rescue squad" since none of the true believers will accept the evidence, Ford_Prefect Jan 2022 #32
Clean up crew in a slaughterhouse.... SergeStorms Jan 2022 #42
No. It's got to be an Amazon warehouse. jmowreader Jan 2022 #51
Oh, Trump hates Bezos.... SergeStorms Jan 2022 #53
I can think of worse, if you want to go that path jmowreader Jan 2022 #55
Now you're using your noggin! SergeStorms Jan 2022 #56
Get them closer to their "base", Ilsa Jan 2022 #50
ya , solitary confinement!! monkeyman1 Jan 2022 #40
Are you thinking... jmowreader Jan 2022 #52
Post removed Post removed Jan 2022 #21
That's not nice. But I do bet my Guv wakes up every morning & thanks God that Kim is not in his life Hekate Jan 2022 #34
You're better than that. Scrivener7 Jan 2022 #59
awwww, Screamy Kimmy not helping? I'm sure she's trying... n/t TygrBright Jan 2022 #22
Drip,drip,drip,drip..... Historic NY Jan 2022 #26
I thought they got engaged a year ago on New year's eve 2020 MiniMe Jan 2022 #31
Didn't Guilfoyle used to date Gavin Newsom? calimary Jan 2022 #38
More like his first wife. nt Carlitos Brigante Jan 2022 #39
Married, and people tried to call them the 'New Kennedys' Celerity Jan 2022 #47
OH YUCK!!!!! calimary Jan 2022 #57
he was shagging his appointment secretary (his campaign manager's wife) around the time of that too Celerity Jan 2022 #58
The tribulations of being a future former first son's ex-wife! tishaLA Jan 2022 #41
So why do you think they are suddenly getting married? malaise Jan 2022 #45
"Bread in the oven, baking." Kid Berwyn Jan 2022 #48
Wife ca't testify against husband malaise Jan 2022 #49

Response to GoCubsGo (Reply #1)

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
35. Imagine waking up beside that each morning.
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:43 AM
Jan 2022

Junior's taste is in his ass. He must have inherited Daddy Dearest's penchant for "working girls".

viva la

(3,315 posts)
14. Weird tidbit about money Guilfoyle supposedly raised:
Wed Jan 5, 2022, 11:58 PM
Jan 2022
According to ProPublica, Wren told another rally organizer that she had “parked” funds with dark money groups supporting the event, and she routed approximately $150,000 from Fancelli to the Republican Attorneys General Association’s Rule of Law Defense Fund, which later purchased a robocall telling Trump supporters to come to D.C. and march on the Capitol after the president’s speech.

So there were robocalls to encourage them to march on the Capitol? Who authorized that?

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
36. "The republican Attorneys General....
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:54 AM
Jan 2022

Association's Rule of Law Defense Fund"?

So she's giving the RAGARLDF dark money, which they use to purchase robocalls to come to Washington so they can partake in the insurection.

You just can't make shit like this up. This is too freaking much.

viva la

(3,315 posts)
43. Yeah... I just don't get it.
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 02:12 AM
Jan 2022

All these relatively normal (previously) if Republican groups just... dissolved into powder because of Trump. And he's SUCH a loser! And so awful-- why are they all willing to break laws and subvert democracy for HIM?

It's because he's so shameless, and glories in getting away with being shameless. I guess they envy that?

msfiddlestix

(7,285 posts)
54. These funding groups are giving for their own benefit, via campaigning for Defeated Former President
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:22 PM
Jan 2022

replacing The Former Guy (TFG) to DFP : Defeated Former President.


They fund anything and anybody that will protect their ill gotten wealth and evade/avoid taxes.

That's all it's about for these groups.

viva la

(3,315 posts)
61. And there are all those grifters pardoned by TFG-
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 12:43 PM
Jan 2022

Bannon and Stone and the rest-- who are setting up PACs and legal funds that they're going to steal from.

They can only keep the grift going if the fools have some goal like "auditing yet another state".

Response to babylonsister (Original post)

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
24. Turns out it doesn't
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 12:58 AM
Jan 2022

Spousal privilege only applies to the crimes you commit after you are married. Guilfoyle can be forced to testify about this.

I expect her to “take the Fifth” so many times I’ll be taking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s about halfway through.

Response to jmowreader (Reply #24)

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
29. I know they're not done criming
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:23 AM
Jan 2022

I can just see it…
“Kimberly, let’s get married today.”
“But Don, I always dreamed of a June wedding!”
“Every day we aren’t married is a day they can make us testify against each other for.”
“How about a June reception?”

Response to jmowreader (Reply #29)

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,537 posts)
60. This will be fun to watch
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 11:25 PM
Jan 2022

There was a spousal privilege question on the bar exam way back when I took the bar. I doubt that this will work as to communications made prior to marriage but it will be fun to watch


maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
27. I KNOW! I can't wrap my head around the fact that Newsome is actually her ex.
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:20 AM
Jan 2022

It"s a major stumbling block for him.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
30. They don't need to throw these awful people in Leavenworth
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:27 AM
Jan 2022

Sentencing them to life in a double wide and jobs at an Amazon warehouse close to San Francisco would be far more punitive.

Ford_Prefect

(7,918 posts)
32. I'm anticipating a "rescue squad" since none of the true believers will accept the evidence,
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:35 AM
Jan 2022

or the court's findings and sentencing as legitimate.

Then again, it may also prove to be a case of protecting TFG and his brood as much as punishing them.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
42. Clean up crew in a slaughterhouse....
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 02:02 AM
Jan 2022

would be a wonderful job for the Trumps. Scraping chicken beaks off machinery, hosing everything down with bleach, and squeegeeing blood into a three inch uphill drain, now that might teach them some humility.

Nah, who am I trying to kid. They're incapable of normal human emotions, other than greed.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
51. No. It's got to be an Amazon warehouse.
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 12:46 PM
Jan 2022

The reason it needs to be an Amazon warehouse is that the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is at the top of Trump’s shit list. Depending on Bezos to provide the money Trump needs for his hamberders and seven-foot-long ties would hurt him more than anything else I can think of.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
53. Oh, Trump hates Bezos....
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:12 PM
Jan 2022

of that there is no doubt, but I'm not overly fond of him myself. I'd hate to give Bezos the satisfaction of being able to do that to Trump though.

So cleaning a slaughterhouse was the worst punishment I could come up with, where neither of those egocentric bastards came out ahead in any way.

Six of one, half a dozen of another. In the end I'm positive we both want Trump and his progeny to pay dearly for what they've done. Hell is Trump's destination, we just have different paths we want him to travel on his journey there.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
55. I can think of worse, if you want to go that path
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:23 PM
Jan 2022

Pumping grease traps at fast food joints, servicing septic tanks, handling phosgene at a plastics plant (it’s used to make several useful plastics like epoxy and polyurethane), fueling satellites with hydrazine, and moving bodies at a Chicago morgue. He might also do well as a night stocker at a Walmart, putting motor oil on the shelf.

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
56. Now you're using your noggin!
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:36 PM
Jan 2022

All of those are good. How about combining them all into one big punishment-palooza?
Take care my friend.

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
50. Get them closer to their "base",
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 09:20 AM
Jan 2022

maybe in southern Mississippi? That would drive them nuts, even if everyone doted on them.

Response to babylonsister (Original post)

Hekate

(90,787 posts)
34. That's not nice. But I do bet my Guv wakes up every morning & thanks God that Kim is not in his life
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:40 AM
Jan 2022

…and has not been for many a year. She is scary-awful at this stage.


calimary

(81,454 posts)
38. Didn't Guilfoyle used to date Gavin Newsom?
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 01:58 AM
Jan 2022

Glad he had the good sense and good taste to
Break it off. (I’m assuming he broke up with her and not the other way around.)

Celerity

(43,497 posts)
47. Married, and people tried to call them the 'New Kennedys'
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 08:27 AM
Jan 2022


Thursday, August 5, 2004

At work or at play, seriously vertical or languidly horizontal -- fetchingly sprawled on Ann Getty's well-vacuumed rug -- Mayor Gavin Newsom and Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom look polished as heck in "The New Kennedys," a spread in the September issue of Harper's Bazaar, mainly shot at the Gettys' house.

The headline was a surprise. "Oh, my God," said the Mrs., "we made no suggestion of any similarity. Public service, that's it. It's not a comparison we make."

https://archive.fo/XzWdv







Celerity

(43,497 posts)
58. he was shagging his appointment secretary (his campaign manager's wife) around the time of that too
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 06:49 PM
Jan 2022

It started perhaps several months later.

He has a lot of baggage if he tries to run for POTUS.

Then again, the country elected rapist serial conman Trump, smdh.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-governors-race-gavin-newsom-affair-20180207-story.html

tishaLA

(14,176 posts)
41. The tribulations of being a future former first son's ex-wife!
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 02:02 AM
Jan 2022

And her lawyer denies that she had anything to do with the fundraising while her text messages say something different? She's practically a member of the family already!

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