唐纳德·特朗普本不需要再卷入新一轮的外交政策问题，但很明显，总统的大使们正在给他的政府制造棘手的麻烦。其中一位大使尤其引人注目——而且并非以好的方式。
Donald Trump didn’t need another round of foreign policy problems, but it’s clear the president’s ambassadors are creating difficult complications for his administration. One ambassador in particular, however, stands out — and not in a good way.
几周前，《华尔街日报》报道了金伯利·吉尔福伊尔的情况。她曾是福克斯新闻的撰稿人，也是唐纳德·特朗普小儿子的前未婚妻，目前担任美国驻希腊大使，其任职经历颇具争议。她工作中较为成问题的一个方面是，她让游说者克里斯托斯·马拉法托斯参与了大量官方会议，“以至于一些外国官员误以为他是她的首席幕僚”。
The Wall Street Journal reported a couple of weeks ago on Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News contributor who is also Donald Trump Jr.’s former fiancée, and her controversial tenure as the U.S. ambassador to Greece. Among the more problematic aspects of her work has been Guilfoyle’s involvement of lobbyist Christos Marafatsos in so many official meetings “that some foreign officials mistook him for her chief of staff.”
同一份报道还指出，这位美国大使曾为马拉法托斯的雇主——希腊建筑公司Aktor Group——推动能源交易，此举令该地区官员感到困惑，也引发了国会关键民主党议员的担忧。然而本周，新的指控使她的处境变得更加严重。
The same report added that the U.S. ambassador has promoted Marafatsos’ employer, Greek construction firm Aktor Group, for energy deals, to the puzzlement of officials in the region and to the concern of key congressional Democrats This week, however, new allegations made her situation vastly more serious.
在金伯利·吉尔福伊尔为即将举行的国会听证会做准备时，她向一位特朗普的支持者发出紧急请求：她需要10万美元，声称这笔钱是她欠美国运通的——而且必须以不会留下书面记录的方式支付。
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.
据《华尔街日报》查阅的消息显示，她在Signal上写道：“如果你把钱电汇给美国运通，这笔钱就不会出现在任何记录里。拜托了。”根据该报道（尚未经MS NOW独立核实），吉尔福伊尔当时正在与埃里克·迪特斯联系。迪特斯曾是一名共和党国会候选人，但未能当选，他正希望特朗普政府能帮助解决一些个人税务和法律问题。
“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.”According to the reporting, which has not been independently verified by MS NOW, Guilfoyle had been in communication with Eric Deters, a failed former Republican congressional candidate, who was hoping for the Trump administration’s assistance on some personal tax and legal issues.
据报道，如果吉尔福伊尔能利用她在特朗普团队中的影响力帮他解决问题，他愿意支付高达100万美元，而她则向他保证自己能做到。
He was reportedly prepared to pay Guilfoyle as much as $1 million if she helped use her influence within Team Trump to make her troubles go away, and she assured him that she could deliver.
“你认识的每一位国防部长、交通部长、财政部长、商务部长、国税局局长，所有人都会立刻回复我，”她在给迪特斯的短信中写道，并补充道，“哦对了，我还忘了卡什·帕特尔（cash Patel）”，这显然是对联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）名字的拼写错误。但在7月初，这位当时的被提名人显然想要一笔预付款。
“Every secretary of you know defense, transportation, treasury commerce IRS commissioner everyone gets right back to me,” she wrote in a message to Deters, adding, “Oh yeah, l’m forgetting cash Patel,” in an apparent misspelling of FBI Director Kash Patel’s name.
“亲爱的，求求你今天帮我把这事办妥，”她给迪特斯发短信，附上了一个双手合十的表情符号和一个包含美国运通账单支付说明的PDF文件。“你直接把钱发到这里就行，”她在2025年7月3日写道，当时距离她7月9日的确认听证会仅剩几天。
But in early July, the then-nominee apparently wanted an advance.
迪特斯最终拒绝了这一请求，不过《华尔街日报》的报道接着指出，吉尔福伊尔还对他们的通讯内容可能公之于众表示担忧。
“Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,” she texted Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express. “You could just send it here,” she wrote on July 3, 2025, just days before her July 9 confirmation hearing.
在一次让人印象人格外深刻的交流中，吉尔福伊尔警告他不要在短信中提及金钱或付款：“埃里克，我真的希望你不要把所有这些事情都落实在纸面上。”
Deters ultimately declined the request, although the Journal’s report went on to note that Guilfoyle also expressed concern about their communications potentially reaching the public.
在这种语境下，“落实在纸面上”显然意味着“把充满争议的评论写成文字”。在另一段对话中，迪特斯暗示他对自己的投资回报并不完全满意。
In one especially memorable exchange, Guilfoyle warned him not to reference money or payments by way of texts: “Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things.”
“这些年来我付给你了30万美元，”他写信给吉尔福伊尔。“截至这份备忘录发出时，我没有收到过一个帮忙。我既不天真也不是冤大头。我需要结果。”
In context, “papering” apparently meant “putting controversial comments in writing.”In another exchange, Deters suggested he was not altogether impressed with the return on his investment.
吉尔福伊尔的一名律师表示，这位大使对这家报社获取的信息的真实性提出了质疑，但拒绝透露具体细节。迪特斯对《华尔街日报》表示：“她从来没有兑现过任何事情。”在一个正常的政治环境中，这大概会是这位大使可能决定更新简历并安排一张离开雅典的单程机票的时候。
“I have paid you $300,000 over the years,” he wrote to Guilfoyle. “As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.”
在被问及这些披露时，内布拉斯加州的共和党众议员唐·培根对MS NOW表示：“如果属实，那就糟糕透了。”另一位要求匿名以便坦率发言的众议院共和党成员补充说：“这种烂摊子会让我们失去多数席位。”
A lawyer for Guilfoyle said the ambassador disputed the authenticity of the messages obtained by the newspaper, but he declined to provide specifics. Deters told the Journal, “She never came through on anything.”In a normal political environment, this would be about the time the ambassador might decide to update her resume and schedule a one-way flight out of Athens.
问：你对一位美国大使要求某人偿还债务以换取接触其他政府官员有何反应？
Asked about the revelations, Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska told MS NOW, “If true, it is bad.”Another House GOP member, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, added, “This is the type of crap that will cost us the majority.”Q: Do you have any reaction to a US ambassador asking someone to pay off debt in exchange for access to other government officials?VANCE: Well, so — with that hypothetical, obviously I don't love that, but I, you know, I don't know exactly who you're talking about, I don't know the full details Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) JD Vance was also asked about the reporting at an unrelated press conference on Thursday morning.
VANCE：嗯，针对这个假设，显然我不喜欢，但我也不知道你具体指的是谁，细节我也不清楚。Aaron Rupar（@atrupar.com）在周四上午的另一场新闻发布会上也被问及此事。
“Well, so, with that hypothetical, obviously I don’t love that, but I, you know, I don’t know exactly who you’re talking about, I don’t know the full details,” the vice president replied.
“嗯，针对这个假设，显然我不喜欢，但我也不知道你具体指的是谁，细节我也不清楚，”副总统回答道。
With 26 days remaining in the midterm election cycle and Democrats already focusing heavily on corruption allegations surrounding the Republican administration, Guilfoyle’s controversy couldn’t have come at a worse time for Team Trump or the GOP.
在中期选举周期还剩26天、民主党已经高度聚焦于围绕共和党政府的腐败指控之际，吉尔福伊尔的争议对特朗普团队或共和党来说再糟也不为过。
UPDATE (October 8, 2026, 11:52 a.m. ET): During an on-air appearance with MS NOW’s Peter Alexander on Thursday morning, Deters said, “I cannot stand Kimberly Guilfoyle. Kimberly Guilfoyle is a wicked evil person. She thought I was going to be a sucker, and I’m not a sucker.”
更新（2026年10月8日，上午11:52 ET）：在周四上午与MS NOW的彼得·亚历山大进行的电视采访中，德特斯说：“我受不了金伯莉·吉尔福伊尔。金伯莉·吉尔福伊尔是个极其邪恶的人。她以为我会是个傻瓜，但我不是傻瓜。”
In the same interview, Deters added that his previous arrangement with Guilfoyle was “absolutely … a quid pro quo.”
在同一次采访中，德特斯补充说，他之前与吉尔福伊尔的安排“绝对是…以牙还牙”。
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