Business as usual for Trump crime family
Brad
Reed for Common Dreams
Appearing on ABC News’ “Good Morning America,” Eric Deters
said that Guilfoyle offered him access to top officials in the Trump
administration if he paid off her $100,000 credit card debt.
“It was all quid pro quo,” Deters said. “She was so
desperate for me to send that $100,000, she said, ‘If you do this for me... I
will be your ride or die in Trump World.”
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| Being corrupt seems to be a job requirement |
In the texts, Guilfoyle gave Deters pointers on how to help
her without leaving a paper trail, informing him that the payment “won’t show
up anywhere if you wire money to American Express.”
In an interview with the Journal, Deters said that he
ultimately didn’t send Guilfoyle the money, as she’d made promises of favors to
him in the past without ever delivering.
Among other things, the former Trump donor explained, he
once offered to pay Guilfoyle $1 million in exchange for securing him an
interview on Tucker Carlson’s show. While Guilfoyle said she could get Carlson
to agree to the interview, she was unable to convince him.
“She never came through on anything,” Deters explained.
An attorney representing Guilfoyle told the Journal that she disputed the authenticity of the text messages with Deters, but declined to provide any specifics.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is
currently in Greece, refused to comment on the corruption allegations when
asked by reporters on Thursday.
“Our job is not to respond every time somebody gives the
media something without any advanced warning, without any chance to look at
it,” Rubio said. “That’s not the way you run an organization, and that’s not a
serious way to conduct the policy of our country. So I’m not going to comment
on a story that literally posted a few hours ago.”
Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-Va.), a member of the House
Oversight Committee, wrote in a Wednesday social media post that
Guilfoyle’s efforts to hide elicit transactions was doomed to failure.
“The Trump cartel can’t hide this,” Walkinshaw wrote.
“Corruption leaves a paper trail. It’s time to Investigate every message and
dollar.”
Democracy
Defenders Action co-founder Norm Eisen, who served as US ambassador to the Czech Republic under
President Barack Obama,
expressed astonishment at the Guilfoyle texts.
“I was an ambassador myself and I’ve never seen anything
like this,” Eisen wrote. “She denies it, but you can smell this one from
Athens!”
