Former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann says the person President Trump has been reluctant to turn against, even as corruption allegations mount, is Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece and former fiancée of Donald Trump Jr.
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In an Oct. 8 episode of The Bulwark’s “The Illegal News,” Weissmann and host Sarah Longwell discussed Wall Street Journal reporting that Guilfoyle pressed a Trump donor for a $100,000 payment to her American Express account days before her Senate confirmation h
Weissmann’s point, as framed by The Bulwark, is political as much as legal: Guilfoyle is not a ordinary appointee. She is a longtime Trump-world figure, the ex-fiancée of the president’s eldest son, and someone whose removal would land inside the family orbit. That is the relationship the discussion treats as the constraint—not a formal immunity from firing, but a reluctance to turn on her even after a donor went public with a pay-for-access claim timed to her confirmation.


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