I wanted to share with you a letter that I wrote to the Greek ambassador, for now, Kimberly Guilfoyle.
This morning, the new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, at her first outing, announced the White House had asked Guilfoyle to resign as the United States ambassador to Greece.
I thought that was a pretty interesting way to tell the world that the White House was about to execute her.
Recall that she was Don Jr’s. main squeeze for six years until his engagement to Bettina Anderson, a Palm Beach socialite.
The consolation prize daddy Donald Trump gave Kimberly was the ambassadorship.
But last week, The Journal threw a brick through Kimmy‘s front window when it reported that she had solicited a $100,000 payment of her American Express bill just before she was about to appear in Senate confirmation hearings.
It was said that she offered private access to the Administration and that she also had accepted, while ambassador, lavish private jet travel to Paris and posh accommodations there from a Greek billionaire.
She was selling access. Oh, big friggin deal.
I really did not understand what she was doing wrong as a part of this Administration, and so I sent her the following letter:
‘’Dear Kimmy,
Don’t let the bullies in the White House get to you. Refuse to leave your post; you have strong legal grounds to have solicited money, accepted lavish gifts, and offered access.
The legal term for your defense is called equitable estoppel. This doctrine is applicable because you relied to your detriment on the apparent acceptable actions of the Administration to guide your own actions.
You only took or asked for a few hundred thousand of dollars. Peanuts. And maybe you did sell access; what’s the big deal? It’s happening all over Washington and no one else is getting in trouble.
Your actions were quite reasonable and acceptable where you saw that Trump took a $500 million plane from Qatar, sold phones and Bibles and Bitcoins from the oval office and accepted money for pardons and clemency.
He cut a deal to settle a bogus, collusive, lawsuit, in exchange for millions of dollars of tax immunity.
And what about all the golden gifts he has accepted from foreign leaders and chief executive officers?
Now that’s real self dealing and no harm has come to him.
Your former boyfriend, Don Jr. accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of payments for his wedding party less than a month ago, from a Russian billionaire with very close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Let’s talk about associate justice Clarence Thomas who pretty much did exactly what you did.
For years, he accepted travel and other gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars without disclosing them severely discrediting his court. And that was perfectly OK. He remains on the bench.
Anyway, everyone knows that the Trump administration is a pay-to-play organization. Trump caters only to the wealthy, and only if they’re willing to pay for access and for favors.
Elon spent $300 million to help elect Trump; he received numerous extremely valuable government contracts worth billions of dollars. And hey, if you want a top job with the government, donate millions and you’ll get it. Elon was made the head of DOGE.
Sinha, Kushner, Stephens and other others paid to be called ambassadors.
If you don’t donate big, you don’t get.
And companies have bought access and favors: Pilgrim’s Pride, Paramount., Extremity Care just the name a few.
You did nothing they didn’t do at a much grander scale. And frankly, I wonder why Trump even claims he cares because he does not.
Although, it might be because you’re of the female gender and he has different rules for women.
Hang in there and remember the term equitable estoppel.
Surely , you know some things about Don Jr. That would make very interesting reading.
Don’t let them fire you for doing exactly what they have been doing.
(Editor’s note: The Wall Street Journal reported that Guilfoyle did in fact resign her ambassadorship this evening.)
Jim Astrachan is lawyer who represents clients in intellectual property law and litigation, mediation, and business, regulatory, and transactional matters. He’s a Life Fellow of the Baltimore City Bar Foundation, the Maryland Bar Foundation, and the American Bar Foundation.