Now that former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle has been fired from her post as ambassador to Greece, she may decide to get a measure of revenge on her former boss, Donald Trump, and try to bring down an administration that is already facing historically low poll numbers, a midterm electoral blue wave, and others scandals that threaten to consume the White House.
Former Trump administration communications official Sarah Matthews said Guilfoyle will naturally be looking for a “soft landing spot” and even a presidential pardon for crimes she may have committed.
“The issue that they have now with someone like Kimberly Guilfoyle is yes, they did ask for her resignation, but she is probably going to go kicking and screaming unless I would guess she’s probably lobbying them for a pardon because she did expose herself, it seems like, to some criminal liability here,” Matthews told MS NOW host Peter Alexander.
“And so the issue with them and their relationship with her, it’s not like some secretary that you can just oust,” Matthews continued. “This is someone who was part of the Trump family and was in the inner circle for years on end. She knows where the bodies are buried, and so they want to make sure that she doesn’t go out singing and, you know, spilling all their secrets. And so I think that they’re going to try to make a deal with her and either find her a soft landing spot.”
Alexander jokingly said the ambassadorship “was supposed to be the soft landing spot.”
Matthews agreed. “Exactly. She was given the ambassadorship because they wanted to try to smooth things over with her after the engagement [to Don Jr.] ended.”
Even if Guilfoyle doesn’t choose to spill the beans on what she knows about the Trumps, she may have no choice if subpoenaed for her testimony by a Democratic-controlled House and/or Senate panel. If she refuses, she could be held in contempt of Congress and jailed.
It will be interesting to see what the so-called “president” chooses to do to keep Guilfoyle quiet.
