Kimberly Guilfoyle’s resignation as U.S. ambassador to Greece — reportedly forced by allegations she solicited gifts to maintain her lifestyle — is being framed by American Thinker as something closer to comic relief than a genuine scandal, arriving as it did alongside a week of heavier political controversies.
Writing for the outlet, attorney Frank Friday acknowledges that Guilfoyle’s exit was “inevitable” and describes it as a kind of welcome break from the other stories dominating the news cycle. Among those, he points to what he characterizes as a dragnet closing in on Rep. Ilhan Omar — claiming, without elaboration, that both Trump-aligned figures and the Biden Justice Department uncovered “unsavory stuff.” Friday recites a series of long-standing allegations against Omar, including that she entered the country through her father, whom he describes as a henchman of Somalia’s former Marxist dictator, and that she may have married a brother as part of a visa scam. He also repeats claims linking her to Somali fraud networks in Minnesota and her son to gang members. The piece offers no new evidence for any of these assertions.
From Gavin Newsom to Greece, and the Kentucky Patron in Between
Turning to Guilfoyle herself, Friday traces a personal and professional arc that runs from her marriage to Gavin Newsom — whom he notes is part of the extended Getty family — through businessman Eric Villency, then to Fox News, where she was let go following a harassment scandal, and eventually to Donald Trump Jr. But the piece argues her real misstep came with a Kentucky patron: Eric Deters.
According to Friday, Deters went public through media appearances and his own podcast, alleging that Guilfoyle asked him for money but never reciprocated with help on his various projects. While Friday concedes he doesn’t know Guilfoyle personally, he says he met Deters decades ago and paints him as a larger-than-life Kentucky character — the kind, he writes, who might appear on the TV series Justified. Deters’ father was a highly successful attorney who owned banks and hotels, but the younger Deters lost his law license in both Kentucky and Ohio and struggled to work around the loss, then ran for office multiple times without success.
When Trump entered politics in 2016, Deters was among the first in Kentucky to back him financially, which Friday says gave him access to Trump’s inner circle. Since then, Friday writes, Deters appears to have become fixated on a fugitive Pakistani plastic surgeon and the potential for lucrative lawsuits if the man could be extradited to the United States — an odd fixation, given the surgeon’s alleged pattern of performing unnecessary operations. Friday notes that even if extradition were possible, a suspended lawyer would face long odds collecting fees on such a case.
Into that mix came Guilfoyle, who, according to Friday, insisted she could help Deters — including getting him on the Tucker Carlson show and possibly persuading Kid Rock to look at a song he had written.
A Weak Case for Criminality, Friday Argues
Reviewing the text messages the two exchanged — which Friday refers to as the “Honey, please” texts — he concludes he sees little basis for criminal liability. His reasoning: Guilfoyle was not a government official at the time, but rather a long-standing official of a Trump PAC. If the $300,000 Deters says he gave her was for that role, Friday writes, there’s no problem. And if the money was meant to buy access to Kid Rock or Tucker Carlson, he quips, that would only be a crime against good taste. In any case, he says, she appears not to have done anything for Deters and understood he was trying to draw her into his own peculiar agenda.
Friday does allow for one possibility: that Guilfoyle may have violated State Department rules if she accepted gifts while serving in Greece, which could lead to fines or penalties following an investigation. But he immediately puts that in perspective by invoking Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, arguing that by the standards applied then — when, in his telling, Clinton escaped any consequences despite what he calls extensive corruption — little is likely to happen to Guilfoyle. He predicts she will land on her feet, most likely somewhere in Palm Beach.
A Scandal Destined for the Memory Hole?
The piece closes with a prediction that after a few cable news jokes about plastic surgery, what Friday calls this “fluffy nothing of a scandal” will be forgotten within a week. Attention will then return, he writes, to “Somali warlords in the Twin Cities, Jew-hating Muslim Democrats in New York and Michigan, and the many other thieves, kooks, and incompetents who run much of our country” — which he labels the real scandal of our time.
The author’s bio identifies Frank Friday as an attorney based in Louisville, Kentucky. The piece appears in American Thinker’s opinion section and carries the outlet’s standard appeal for reader donations.
What the commentary ultimately offers is less a legal analysis than a political argument: that the Guilfoyle affair, whatever its factual dimensions, is small-bore compared to the controversies its author believes deserve more scrutiny. Whether that framing holds will depend on what, if anything, investigators conclude about the gift allegations during her time in Athens — a question Friday himself leaves open even as he predicts the story will fade.
Source: www.americanthinker.com — https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/10/kim-s-kentucky-honey-trap/