金伯利·吉尔福伊尔（Kimberly Guilfoyle）当时正为她出任美国驻希腊大使的国会听证会做准备，期间她向一名特朗普的捐赠者提出了一项紧急请求：她需要10万美元来支付她所说的欠美国运通（American Express）的账单，并且要求这种方式不能留下纸质记录。
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.
根据《华尔街日报》审阅的信息，她在Signal上写道：“如果你把钱电汇到美国运通，它是不会在任何地方显示的。拜托了。”几个月来，吉尔福伊尔一直在与肯塔基州前国会候选人埃里克·德特斯（Eric Deters）聊天。德特斯当时正寻求她的帮助，以引起新特朗普政府对一些个人税务和法律问题的关注，并承诺如果成功将支付高达100万美元的报酬。
“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”For months, Guilfoyle had been chatting with Eric Deters, a former congressional candidate in Kentucky who was seeking her help in getting the attention of the new Trump administration on some personal tax and legal issues—and had promised payments of as much as $1 million if she was successful.
据德特斯和《华尔街日报》审阅的信息，作为唐纳德·特朗普 Jr.（Donald Trump Jr.）的前未婚妻，吉尔福伊尔表示愿意利用她的影响力。她将发给新任美国国税局（IRS）局长的信息转发给德特斯，并向他通报了她代表他游说司法部的进展情况。
As Donald Trump Jr.’s former fiancée, Guilfoyle offered to use her sway, according to Deters and messages reviewed by the Journal. She forwarded Deters the messages she’d sent to the new Internal Revenue Service chief and updated him on her efforts to lobby the Justice Department on his behalf.
但她表示，她的提名听证会即将举行，在此之前她需要还清信用卡余额。
But her confirmation was coming up, and she needed her card balance paid down before then, she said.