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'She wasn't a member of my family!' Trump KICKS Guilfoyle to curb as his own family grifts away · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: She wasn't a member of my family.
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  Speaker 2: I guess dated.
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  Speaker 1: My son a long time ago, but she wasn't. No,
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  Speaker 1: she went to Greece.
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  Speaker 3: She was doing.
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  Speaker 1: A good job, but we didn't like what we were reading.
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  Speaker 3: She wasn't a member of La Familia and we didn't
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  Speaker 3: like what we were reading. Two bad news stories. Hi again, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It's five o'clock in New York. It is one of
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  Speaker 3: the only remaining rules that Trump has. Don't get caught
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  Speaker 3: looking weak and desperate. And if you do, make sure
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  Speaker 3: it isn't in writing. In the press, the United States
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  Speaker 3: ambassador to Greece, one Kimberly Guilfoyle, seemingly did everything wrong.
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  Speaker 3: The Wall Street Journal published two damaging stories in just
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  Speaker 3: the last week that exposed her conduct before and during
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  Speaker 3: her time in Athens. One discovered that in the days
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  Speaker 3: before her Senate confirmation, she asked a Trump donor to
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  Speaker 3: pay her $ 100, 000 Amex bill, begging in writing, quote, honey,
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  Speaker 3: please be a text message. Another revealed that earlier this year,
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  Speaker 3: she was traipsing around Davos talking about her ties to
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  Speaker 3: Greek tycoons that were, quote, bankrolling her high rolling trips
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  Speaker 3: around the world, end quote. And as you heard from
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, I hardly knew her. She wasn't
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  Speaker 3: in my family and she is out. It was announced
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  Speaker 3: today by his brand new White House press secretary, which
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  Speaker 3: is another story for another day, that the administration had
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  Speaker 3: asked for Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation. She soon gave them that
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  Speaker 3: and confirmed via social media. In a lengthy post, she
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  Speaker 3: thanked the White House and the State Department and denied
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  Speaker 3: the allegations against her. When asked if she would investigate
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  Speaker 3: Kimberly Guilfoyle's conduct, her former colleague at Fox News, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Attorney Jeanine Pirro, didn't really answer yes or no. She
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  Speaker 3: said this, quote, I think right now that there is
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  Speaker 3: an inspector general investigation in the Department of State. We
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  Speaker 3: probably wait to see what comes, what happens with that,
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  Speaker 3: end quote. Now, if this White House really thought that
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  Speaker 3: Kimberly Guilfoyle's actions were so egregious that she should be fired,
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  Speaker 3: that she should no longer serve in the government, that
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  Speaker 3: she should no longer be worthy of the public trust,
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't they investigate her? Now, this administration is no stranger
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  Speaker 3: to conflicts of interest, to self-enrichment, to profiting off one's position.
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  Speaker 3: So it is interesting that the Trump White House administration
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  Speaker 3: only stood for two bad stories in the Wall Street Journal,
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  Speaker 3: and they gave Guilfoyle, who was almost Trump's daughter-in-law, Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle were engaged, gave her the boot.
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  Speaker 3: It's especially interesting when you consider that the Trump sons,
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  Speaker 3: one of them was engaged to Guilfoyle, is heavily invested
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  Speaker 3: in defense companies that are getting contracts with the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 3: Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, married his daughter Ivanka. Key negotiator
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  Speaker 3: in Mideast Peace received $ 2 billion with a B from
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  Speaker 3: the Saudis and his private equity firm. At the time,
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  Speaker 3: it was more money than Mnuchin got. Kushner's co-negotiator, Steve Witkoff,
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  Speaker 3: has made millions over the last year, some of which
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  Speaker 3: was from investments in Trump family businesses. Trump's own son...
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  Speaker 3: had his wedding after party paid for on an island
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  Speaker 3: by a Russian oligarch currently in good standing with Vladimir Putin,
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  Speaker 3: who went from a Putin event to a Trump event.
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  Speaker 1: But Kimberly?
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  Speaker 3: She went too far. Seeing how far is too far
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  Speaker 3: for Donald Trump is where we begin the hour with
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  Speaker 3: some of our favorite reporters and friends. Our senior White
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  Speaker 3: House reporter, Vaughn Hilliard, is here. Also joining us, author
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  Speaker 3: of the Substack newsletter, To the Contrary, Charlie Sykes is back.
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  Speaker 3: And former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the FBI,
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  Speaker 3: National Security and Intelligence Analyst Michael Feinberg is here. Von Hilliard,
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  Speaker 3: what did Kimberly Guilfoyle do that none of the other
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  Speaker 3: people with their hand in the taxpayer coffers has done?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she got caught on an audio recording, had it
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  Speaker 2: reported by The Wall Street Journal, and she happens to
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  Speaker 2: be the ex-fiance, not a current fiance or wife of
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  Speaker 2: Don Jr., one of Donald Trump's sons. And we should
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  Speaker 2: be clear, Nicole, she kind of got a soft landing
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  Speaker 2: at the end of 2024. She and Don Jr. broke
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  Speaker 2: up at the end of 2024. Right. As Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: was winning the presidency again, of course, he's now married
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  Speaker 2: a different woman. And they ultimately gave her the ambassadorship
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  Speaker 2: to go to Greece. And that is where here in
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  Speaker 2: these recordings. She explicitly says that she flew to Paris,
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  Speaker 2: went to Fashion Week, and that she had it covered
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  Speaker 2: by a Greek shipping tycoon, the flight and the four-season stay.
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  Speaker 2: But let's also be clear, Nicole, not just that she
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  Speaker 2: had it covered. She actually posted images of her there
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  Speaker 2: with this very tycoon all over her own Instagram page.
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  Speaker 3: Page.
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  Speaker 2: And so she flaunted it. And in so many ways,
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  Speaker 2: it reminds me of what I've done a lot of
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  Speaker 2: weekends over the last years is going through Mar-a-Lago social
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  Speaker 2: media posts or Bedminster posts. And it's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: lifestyle that so many people play. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: that's where it kind of hits at sort of this,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sort of the blurring of the lines of
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  Speaker 2: what is ethical and what is wrong. And even her
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  Speaker 2: own attorneys in a statement just yesterday before this announced
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  Speaker 2: resignation said, They said, well, she was owed hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: thousands of dollars by this donor for speaking engagements and
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  Speaker 2: for consulting, essentially acknowledging that she had a quid pro
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  Speaker 2: quo relationship, even though they said it wasn't that, but
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  Speaker 2: that's what the donor says it was. And here is
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  Speaker 2: where Kimberly Guilfoyle finds herself now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, of course it's all unethical and of course
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  Speaker 3: it's all wrong. I guess my only point is that
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  Speaker 3: they're all doing it. And if you're going to fire one,
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  Speaker 3: is it a new standard to fire all of them?
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  Speaker 3: Here's Mr. Witkoff, quote, September 10th, Trump's special envoy hauled
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  Speaker 3: in more than $ 250 million while in government. Witkoff's earnings
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  Speaker 3: reported in a newly released disclosure form for 2025 include
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  Speaker 3: $ 120 million from selling a stake in his family's real
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  Speaker 3: estate business, But he also collected nearly $ 107 million from
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  Speaker 3: a holding company that invested in a variety of other ventures,
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  Speaker 3: including the Trump family crypto business. The Witkoff and Trump
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  Speaker 3: families founded the crypto business World Liberty Financial in the
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  Speaker 3: run-up to the 2024 election. And although World Liberty has
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  Speaker 3: said Witkoff was not involved in the company's operations last year,
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  Speaker 3: he continued to own a financial stake until divesting it
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  Speaker 3: early this year. Vaughn, has World Liberty been profitable for
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  Speaker 3: Trump supporters who invested in it?
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  Speaker 2: No, they've lost money. And I think that this is
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  Speaker 2: where what is the means of profit and who is profiting?
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  Speaker 2: If it's Donald Trump, if it's his best friend, Steve Woodcock,
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  Speaker 2: if it's members of the actual family, there has not
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  Speaker 2: been seemingly any consequences. And we've almost... I think as
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  Speaker 2: a society, you know, to a certain extent become numb.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, you hear repeatedly from voters
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  Speaker 2: on the road saying that corruption is at the top
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  Speaker 2: of their mind. And I think in the case of
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  Speaker 2: Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I think that she is one of those individuals who
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  Speaker 2: undoubtedly knows a great amount of information about the Trump family.
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  Speaker 2: But also, I think that this hits at the issue for.
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  Speaker 2: those in Trump's orbit, is that while they may not
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  Speaker 2: be profiting in the same ways as the Trump family
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  Speaker 2: itself or Steve Witkoff, that there's also not very much
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  Speaker 2: of a lucrative business to flip on him. And we
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  Speaker 2: could go through a long list of people that have
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  Speaker 2: tried to speak out against the Trump organization or the
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  Speaker 2: Trump family, and many of them came crawling back to
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump because they realized in the case of Gimberley Guilfoyle,
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  Speaker 2: there was hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking engagement
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  Speaker 2: or consulting fees to be made by a sheer prevalence
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  Speaker 2: to the Trump family itself. So ultimately, I think in
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  Speaker 2: so many ways, not to skirt the question, but voters
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  Speaker 2: are repeatedly saying that corruption is an issue, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: enough to get Donald Trump to, you know, try to
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  Speaker 2: push Kimberly Guilfoyle out because it was so obvious and
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  Speaker 2: so apparent in the form of recordings and text messages. Clearly,
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  Speaker 2: that was a line in this case that was too
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  Speaker 2: far for him.
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  Speaker 3: Just fascinating to me where the line is. Let me
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  Speaker 3: play some of the sound. This is Eric Dieters. He's
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  Speaker 3: the guy who says that Kimberly ambushed him to pay
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  Speaker 3: her bills. Michael Feinberg, let me play this for you.
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  Speaker 1: She ambushed me out of the blue with this $ 200, 000
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  Speaker 1: American Express offer. And she offered me to be her
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  Speaker 1: ride and die forever if I did this. And to
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  Speaker 1: be very candid, but I did not do it. But
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I did not do it is I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have that money at the time. It was the
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  Speaker 1: worst time that she could have ever asked me for
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  Speaker 1: another $ 100, 000.
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  Speaker 4: So there's so.
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  Speaker 3: Much in there. I've seen this four times now. I
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  Speaker 3: saw it when Peter did the interview and I played
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  Speaker 3: it on my show later that day. If you're looking
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  Speaker 3: for evidence of widespread criminality, what is clear from just
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  Speaker 3: that short snippet is that If I did this, I
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  Speaker 3: would be her ride or die forever. There's a language
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  Speaker 3: that they use. We're like way beyond, was it a
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  Speaker 3: quid pro quo? It was like a monogamous quid pro.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, I will only quid with your pro, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like that's where these people are with one another. And
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  Speaker 3: the other piece of this is that she was a
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  Speaker 3: repeat customer. And my only, I guess, line of questioning
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  Speaker 3: for you, Michael Feinberg, is in a normal world, wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: you want to know how all the other ambassadors are
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  Speaker 3: conducting their business?
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  Speaker 1: Of course, but I think it really is safe to
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  Speaker 1: say at this point in this administration that we should
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  Speaker 1: just assume that the norm is corruption and the real
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  Speaker 1: anomaly would be a deviance towards transparency and law following.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, Kimberly Guilfoyle has been pushed out, but
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  Speaker 1: Tom Homan hasn't, despite very credible allegations against him. We
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  Speaker 1: have congressional and senatorial candidates in Ohio who have been
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  Speaker 1: accused of beating their spouses, who Trump defends. We have
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  Speaker 1: outright white supremacists and racists whom Trump defends. Like the
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  Speaker 1: only people he will not defend are those who are
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  Speaker 1: what I would just say are baseline, normal, moral human beings.
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  Speaker 1: And that says something about his orbit. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to point something out as well. Mr. Dieters, from whom
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  Speaker 1: we just heard, is a self-identified Trump voter and supporter.
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  Speaker 1: Like nobody who was conscious or awake for 2016 to
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  Speaker 1: 2020 could have any doubt about what they were getting
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  Speaker 1: if they brought him back to office. This is a
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  Speaker 1: man who tried to overturn a Democratic election. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that this bribe didn't work out might really now aggrieve Mr. Dieters.
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  Speaker 1: But nobody should be surprised at it. None of his
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  Speaker 1: supporters should look to the stars and question how this
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  Speaker 1: is happening. It's happening because people voted him back into
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  Speaker 1: office knowing what they were going to get.
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