Things aren’t looking good for the Trump family and those who are soon to marry into the Trump family. According to a new report, Kimberly Guilfoyle, i.e., Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend/secret fiancé/advisor and fundraiser for former President Trump, claimed in texts from January 4th 2021 that she had raised $3 million for the 75-year-old former president’s January 6th ‘Stop the Steal’ rally, which happened just before a mob of 2,000 to 2,500 Trump supporters violently attacked the U.S. Capitol. Oh, and we say *secret fiancé* because the 52-year-old television news personality and Trump’s 44-year-old son apparently got engaged almost a year ago, but decided to keep the news to themselves!
According to a new ProPublica report, leaked texts from Guilfoyle to Katrina Pierson, a White House official who served as a liaison to the rally, show that she boasted about raising funds for Trump’s January 6th 2021 rally on the Ellipse in Washington, which happened prior to the Capitol riot. One of the ex-Fox News host’s messages read, “Literally one of my donors Julie at 3 million,” in reference to an eye-watering donation from Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a Trump megadonor who is also heir to the Publix supermarket chain.
The text messages also revealed that she hugely supported the addition of other far-right speakers to the on-stage line-up on January 6th, adding that she wanted to introduce her boyfriend/fiancé at the 'Stop the Steal' rally because she had "raised so much money for this," we assume partly in reference to Fancelli's donation. The Wall Street Journal reported that the January 6th rally cost around $500,000, and roughly $300,000 of Fancelli's donation was used to pay for it.
Interestingly, the leaked text messages also show that Pierson's reply to Guilfoyle suggested that she couldn't control who spoke at the event, as only the president had a say in the speakers. Guilfoyle did, however, end up speaking at the event after all, as she took to the stage before Trump Jr. and told the crowd: "We will not allow the liberals and the Democrats to steal our dream or steal our elections."
The plot thickens as ProPublica (among other outlets and publications) previously reported that Caroline Wren, who reported to Guilfoyle at the Trump Victory finance committee, claimed to raise $3 million for the January 6th event, although the actual total of funds raised for the event has never been disclosed. However, Joe Tacopina, an attorney for Guilfoyle, told ProPublica that his client didn’t have anything to do with the fundraising, nor did she approve the speakers, for the January 6th rally, and actually claimed that Guilfoyle's leaked text messages were "inaccurate" and "taken out of context." Who or what should we believe?!
Wren also failed to clarify whether Guilfoyle was involved in the fundraising for the rally. "To Ms. Wren's knowledge, Kimberly Guilfoyle had no involvement in raising funds for any events on January 6th," Wren said in a statement to ProPublica. "They were both present at a peaceful rally with hundreds of thousands of Americans who were in DC to lawfully exercise their first amendment rights, a primary pillar of American democracy." The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot has subpoenaed Pierson and Wren, among many others in Trump's circle, although Guilfoyle is currently not among them.
