WASHINGTON (TNND) — Vice President JD Vance said Friday regarding U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle’s alleged request of a President Trump donor for money that “if there was something bad that happened, then people have to suffer consequences for it.”
“Look, these are allegations, and what I always say is: we don’t try people in the court of public opinion. We try people in a court of law,” Vance told reporters in Ohio, The Hill reported.
Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée, allegedly asked Eric Deters to wire $100,000 to American Express without a paper trail to pay off her bill last year, The Wall Street Journal reported. Her request was allegedly made just ahead of her Senate confirmation hearing for the Greece ambassadorship. In return, Guilfoyle allegedly promised to help Deters reach senior administration officials.
Deters allegedly declined her request, saying it would cost him his marriage, according to messages shared with the Journal.
“You don’t take messages that people allegedly had between one person or another, or one person’s story, and say, ‘Oh, because of that, Kimberly Guilfoyle is, is guilty.’ I think that’s absurd,” Vance said Friday. “Let’s actually see what the facts are. Let’s see what the truth is.”
“And obviously, if there was something bad that happened, then people have to suffer consequences for it,” he added.
When asked whether the allegations about Guilfoyle are “how the administration works,” Vance said, “certainly not.”
During a diplomatic trip to Greece this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to reporters’ questions about whether he maintained confidence in Guilfoyle and if conduct raised any concerns.
“Like, our job is not to respond every time someone decides to give the media something without any advance warning, without having any chance to look at it and see what’s in there,” Rubio said.
Vance was in his home state of Ohio on Friday to cast his vote in the midterm elections and participate in a campaign rally to support Republicans, including incumbent Sen. Jon Husted and gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy.
