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Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor for $100,000 payment, report says

The US ambassador to Greece allegedly sought funds from a Trump donor for her American Express bill.

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What this story says

  • Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly asked a Kentucky donor, Eric Deters, to wire $100,000 to her American Express account in July 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported.
  • Guilfoyle's lawyers have disputed the authenticity of the text messages and any alleged payment arrangement.
  • Eric Deters stated he paid Guilfoyle a $300,000 speaking fee for favors, which he claims were not delivered.
  • The request for funds reportedly came months before Guilfoyle's Senate confirmation as US Ambassador to Greece.

Who covered it

Left 50%(4)Centre 37%(3)Right 13%(1)

Percentages are shares of the 8 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .

Trust

66/100

Craft

79/100

Hype

45/100

8 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

Only 1 of the 8 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US Ambassador to Greece, allegedly asked a Republican donor for $100,000 to pay her American Express bill, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The request was reportedly made via text message in July 2025, months before her Senate confirmation hearing.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Guilfoyle texted Kentucky donor Eric Deters, asking him to wire the money to her credit card account. The report cited hundreds of messages, emails, and letters reviewed by the paper. Guilfoyle's lawyers have disputed the authenticity of these messages and any alleged payment arrangement.

Eric Deters told The Wall Street Journal that he paid Guilfoyle a $300,000 speaking fee in exchange for favors, but claimed she did not deliver on those promises. Guilfoyle's attorneys stated that any payments made were for money Deters allegedly owed Guilfoyle.

Disputed claims

The Wall Street Journal reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle asked Eric Deters to pay $100,000 to her American Express account. Guilfoyle's lawyers disputed the authenticity of the messages and the alleged payment arrangement. Deters claimed he paid Guilfoyle a $300,000 speaking fee for favors she did not deliver.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated digests mention Eric Deters' claim that he paid Guilfoyle a $300,000 speaking fee. None of the centre-rated digests mention Deters' claim that Guilfoyle delivered none of the promised favors. The right-rated digest does not mention Guilfoyle's lawyers disputing the authenticity of the messages.

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 2 times, most recently on 8 Oct 2026, 00:45, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

4 rated outlets

  • Reports from the left-rated outlets led with Guilfoyle's alleged request for money. The Daily Boulder, Raw Story, and Mediaite highlighted Guilfoyle's plea for $100,000 to pay off credit card debt. Electionlawblog.org and Mediaite used the phrase 'Honey please' from the alleged text message in their headlines. The Daily Boulder stated that the donor 'exposed her' after the request.

Centre

3 rated outlets

  • Centre-rated reports from Hindustan Times and Political Wire focused on Guilfoyle's alleged request for $100,000 from a Trump donor in exchange for favors. The Wall Street Journal's digest also noted the request for $100,000 to be wired to her Amex account, mentioning the need for discretion.

Right

1 rated outlet

  • The right-rated digest from TMZ reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle asked a Trump donor to wire $100,000 to her Amex account, using the phrase 'Honey please' in her plea.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor for $100,000 payment, report says?
Of the 8 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 50% are rated left, 37% are rated centre, 13% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor for $100,000 payment, report says left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 8 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor for $100,000 payment, report says biased?
Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor for $100,000 payment, report says is one event reported by 8 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor for $100,000 payment, report says?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Kimberly Guilfoyle asked donor for $100,000 payment, report says?
8 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What did Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly ask Eric Deters for?
Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly asked Kentucky donor Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to her American Express account in July 2025. This request reportedly came months before her Senate confirmation hearing for the position of US Ambassador to Greece.
What is the response from Kimberly Guilfoyle's lawyers?
Guilfoyle's lawyers have disputed the authenticity of the text messages and any alleged payment arrangement. They stated that any payments made were for money Deters allegedly owed Guilfoyle, rather than for favors.
What does Eric Deters claim about the situation?
Eric Deters stated that he paid Kimberly Guilfoyle a one-time $300,000 speaking fee in exchange for favors. However, he claims that Guilfoyle delivered none of the promised favors, despite receiving the payment.

Read it at the source

8 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

4

Centre

3

Right

1

Not rated

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

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