Trump Cabinet Appointments

[Winehole23]

pay for play



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[Winehole23]

pay for play


https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/politics/kristi-noem-planes-donor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GFE.mHNs.iWJ8Ke K9-9aT&smid=url-share 10K contribution, $900 million return.

[Winehole23]

Guilfoyle is thretening to coup Greece today, but she got her start as a US Ambassador by offering access in exchange for paying off her $100,000 AMEX bill

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Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece (https://www.wsj.com/topics/place/greece) when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express (https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/AXP)—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.

“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.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/guilfoyle-amex-donor-100-000-0e02cdc3?st=LAGFtX

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[Winehole23]

OPSEC is great on Signal



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Christos ... whom Trump once called a "good-looking guy" ... is not an elected or appointed official but a paid lobbyist ... the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/articles/kimberly-guilfoyle-mystery-man-energy-5adeb541) reported.


The thing is ... as ambassador to Greece, Guilfoyle has reportedly tried encouraging a few foreign governments to ink gas deals with the company Aktor.


And who happens to be a registered lobbyist for the gas conglomerate and has received $160,000 in payments? You guessed it ... Christos ... this, according to the WSJ.


In addition to attending multiple meetings across several countries with Kimberly ... Christos apparently flew her to Bulgaria on a private jet.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/26/kimberly-guilfoyle-paid-lobbyist-inner-circle/

[Winehole23]

Guilfoyle is thretening to coup Greece today, but she got her start as a US Ambassador by offering access in exchange for paying off her $100,000 AMEX bill

https://images.wsj.net/im-68256322/?width=1280&height=1280

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/guilfoyle-amex-donor-100-000-0e02cdc3?st=LAGFtXpunch line: Deters didn't pay because he was afraid he'd get in trouble with his wife

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[Winehole23]

Tucker torches Guilfoyle


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[Winehole23]

lol letting a specific oil and gas lobbyist attend official meetings

[Winehole23]

Still, business appears to be good for Aktor, which has signed "memorandums of understanding and commercial agreements with gas companies in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Romania," according to the report. Guilfoyle also reportedly helped the company secure a $6 billion deal in Albania which would have the country buy gas from Aktor through 2050.https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/kimberly-guilfoyle-close-ties-mystery-200643401.html

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

a true outlaw


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he used to say his family escaped Castro, but then it was revealed his family fled the US-supported Fulgencio Batista. Now that it's advantageous to be a Western supremacist, he's pushing aside Cuban and going with Spanish.

[Winehole23]

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Marco Rubio has a meltdown when asked about Kimberly Guilfoyle: "I'm not playing this game ... you guys are not gonna be our only source of information in the world. I'm sorry to tell you that. No... I don't even know if what you're reporting is true." (It's true! The Journal has her text messages!)

[Winehole23]

Trump administration alpha males sure whine a lot

[Winehole23]

"You could be here meeting with Billy Long"


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[Winehole23]

special birthday boy wants to give federal contracts to his MMA buddies

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The FBI wants to hire the Ultimate Fighting Championship to train its special agents under a one-year deal that would bypass the competitive bidding process typically used for federal contracts, according to federal records (https://sam.gov/opp/39231f8ae00a4486857af02fcb451a2b/view).

The agency claimed that the UFC is the only organization qualified to provide the training within its required time frame. The estimated cost of the proposed deal was redacted from the publicly released documents.
https://www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/fbi-ufc-kash-patel-contract-train-special-agents

[Winehole23]

unethical vaccine study


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Kennedy would never be able to do the trial in the US because of its significant ethical concerns, Offit added. “He’s taking advantage of a developing country … Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”


Danish researchers plan to enroll 14,000 infants in Guinea-Bissau (https://www.theguardian.com/world/guinea-bissau) in the trial, giving the hepatitis B vaccine to half of the babies at birth and withholding it from the others for the first six weeks of life.



The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reportedly (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cdc-controversial-hepatitis-b-vaccine-study-1235637894/) set aside $1.6m in this year’s budget for the project, and it will be matched with private funding from the Pershing Square Foundation, which was co-founded by the billionaire activist Bill Ackman, and the Bluebell Foundation.


The CDC, the Danish researchers, Pershing Square and Nantote have not responded to the Guardian’s questions about this trial.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/09/vaccine-trial-guinea-bissau-rfk-jr?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[ChumpDumper]

What a bunch of horseshit to find out the vaccine works.

[Winehole23]

right? the safety of the hep2 vaccine is already well established...

[DMX7]

Guilfoyle is thretening to coup Greece today, but she got her start as a US Ambassador by offering access in exchange for paying off her $100,000 AMEX bill

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/guilfoyle-amex-donor-100-000-0e02cdc3?st=LAGFtX

Gavin Newsom married her. What does that say about his judgement.

[ChumpDumper]

Gavin Newsom married her. What does that say about his judgement.:lmao you logged in to post this?

To answer your question: not much as she was not an ambassador. If you have evidence of her threatening to overthrow a European government back then, by all means spill.

Are you still a Trump supporter?

Please answer.

[Winehole23]

Gavin Newsom married her. What does that say about his judgement.Guilfoyle offering access to the head of the IRS in exchange for $100,000 -- before she was even confirmed as ambassador -- didn't impress you?

[Winehole23]

"Rubio is very upset"


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[Winehole23]

"Trump looking at firing Guilfoyle"

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[DMX7]

:lmao you logged in to post this?

To answer your question: not much as she was not an ambassador. If you have evidence of her threatening to overthrow a European government back then, by all means spill.

Are you still a Trump supporter?

Please answer.

I doubt this kind of behavior is new to KG. Frankly, it says a lot about her character -- something that almost certainly did not change over the years.

I didn't vote for Trump.

[ChumpDumper]

I doubt this kind of behavior is new to KG. Frankly, it says a lot about her character -- something that almost certainly did not change over the years.

I didn't vote for Trump.You support him though. You still can't say anything against him.

What does Trump's appointing Guilfoyle say about Trump's judgment?

You know, since she almost certainly did not change over the years....

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

The lesson we learn from the Trump Administration: Dont be timid with your corruption. Grift *billions* off your position and you are safe, but try to grift a mere $100,000 off your position and you are fired.

[DMX7]

You support him though. You still can't say anything against him.

What does Trump's appointing Guilfoyle say about Trump's judgment?

You know, since she almost certainly did not change over the years....

I'm not a Trump supporter. I agree with very few of his policies. For example, I think the Iran war was a huge mistake and I opposed it from Day 1.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm not a Trump supporter. I agree with very few of his policies. For example, I think the Iran war was a huge mistake and I opposed it from Day 1.

What does Trump's appointing Guilfoyle say about Trump's judgment?

[ChumpDumper]

This is her official picture?

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https://x.com/Timodc/status/2110054488228905460

[Winehole23]

uncanny valley

[DMX7]

What does Trump's appointing Guilfoyle say about Trump's judgment?

It says it's very questionable. Of course he wasn't literally married to her, so Gavin knew her much better.

[Winehole23]

Trump is a big ol wuss


During a Tuesday morning prep session for his new press secretary Katie Zacharia’s first briefing at the White House, the president instructed Zacharia to tell the world that he was asking Guilfoyle to resign, people familiar with the matter said. Trump didn’t speak directly to Guilfoyle before making the decision, one of the people said.https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/kimberly-guilfoyle-greece-ambassador-resignation-dbd7551c?st=TsDULE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[Winehole23]

so greedy and petty and selfish


Trump was annoyed at how brazen the accusations appeared to be, people who spoke with him said, and he was troubled that Guilfoyle was making money off his presidency. The president’s senior aides were growing increasingly frustrated with the negative headlines, which they worried would feed the perception of self-dealing just weeks ahead of the midterm elections.

[Winehole23]

RFK, Jr is not only in bed with snake oil salesmen, he's put them on FDA safety panels



FDA scientists presented some of these reports at the July meeting and flagged worrisome outcomes in animal experiments, such as a 2020 study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32334036/) revealing signs of liver toxicity in rats and dogs injected with BPC-157.

Brian Lee, a liver disease specialist at the University of Southern California, was among the panel’s minority who voted against easing restrictions. Without clinical studies, he said, afflictions that take time to develop, like liver damage and cancer, might not be spotted for years: “I think this endorsement can be potentially harmful, and I cannot in good conscience vote ‘yes.’”

The panel’s newcomers disagreed. “I do not believe the FDA made a good case on issues with safety with BPC,” said Kris Wusterhausen, founder of an antiaging company in Texas, the Resurge Clinic, which sells a BPC-157 product for $149.

“Once you’ve seen the effects of BPC,” he said, “you can’t unsee it.”
https://kffhealthnews.org/public-health/peptides-experimental-drugs-patient-harms-maha-medical-freedom/

[Winehole23]

for flunkies and would be flunkies, the importance of being seen by Trump on TV can't be overstated

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It says it's very questionable. Of course he wasn't literally married to her, so Gavin knew her much better.

And appointed her to what government position?

[Winehole23]

:lol

[Winehole23]

Patel is comparatively weak on crime

FBI getting weaker too


With fewer agents and a strained budget, the FBI under its director, Kash Patel, has brought thousands fewer criminal cases than previous administrations, an MS NOW review of Justice Department data shows. The findings rebut Patel’s repeated claims that he has led a crackdown on violent crime.Patel has boasted (https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2101332939644506267) that the FBI has arrested 54,000 violent criminals, which he describes as a 90% increase in arrests from the same period in the Biden administration. What he doesn’t mention is that his count is inflated by including arrests that state and local police forces and other federal agencies have made when an FBI employee is present.


Many of those arrests are not FBI cases, the FBI acknowledges.


In reality, the FBI has referred 15% fewer criminal cases for federal prosecution during the second Trump administration than during the same period in the Biden administration. And, while the FBI does not break down its criminal referrals into types of cases, the data also shows that the DOJ prosecuted 15% fewer cases of violent crimes during the first 16 months of the Trump administration than during the same period of the Biden administration.


There were nearly 3,800 fewer people charged federally with violent crimes during the first part of the second Trump administration than during the comparable Biden period — the opposite of what Patel says. That figure includes cases referred from all federal agencies, not just the FBI.
https://www.ms.now/news/crime-stats-touted-kash-patel-arrests-state-local-agencies

[DMX7]

And appointed her to what government position?

Gavin MARRIED her.

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[DMX7]

Gavin MARRIED her.

Look at that picture!! That's your hero on the rug!!

[Winehole23]

lol no

[ChumpDumper]

Gavin MARRIED her.

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And appointed her to what government position?

[ChumpDumper]

Seriously, why are you trying to change the subject?

Explain your spiral.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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The purchase of several aircraft by the Department of Homeland Security during the final days of former Secretary Kristi Noem’s tenure is tied to an “ongoing criminal law enforcement investigation,” the department’s Privacy Office told The Washington Sun.


The acknowledgement, made as part of the department’s denial of an Oct. 14 Freedom of Information Act request (https://static.washingtonsun.com/36/95/196f06b1438eb320729cea366428/2027-hqfo-00101-final-response.pdf), added that “DHS can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records responsive to this portion of the request. Confirming or denying the existence of such records could reasonably be expected to interfere with ongoing or prospective enforcement proceedings.”



Earlier this month, Noem came under renewed scrutiny after The New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/politics/kristi-noem-planes-donor.html) that DHS purchased five airplanes from a political donor, Daedalus Aviation Corporation, at a “substantial markup.”https://www.washingtonsun.com/legal/kristi-noem-dhs-airplanes-foia

[Winehole23]

a prison cell for Stephen Miller would be a moderate option


Stephen Miller privately fears ‘prison cell’ awaits him despite Trump pardons: reports (https://www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive/stephen-miller-2678087699/)

[DMX7]

And appointed her to what government position?

You think appointing her to one of a thousand government positions is worse than MARRYING her? You're nuts.

[Winehole23]

You think appointing her to one of a thousand government positions is worse than MARRYING her? You're nuts.Sure it is

What did Guilfoyle do with US power and prestige?

She tried to convert it to personal advantage and shamed not only the Trump administration, but all of us as our international representative.

[Winehole23]

Bad hire, bad US ambassador

Trump hiring Guilfoyle to represent the USA was unquestionably worse judgement than Gavin Newsom marrying her.

[Winehole23]

bad appointment to political power > bad personal decision

[ChumpDumper]

You think appointing her to one of a thousand government positions is worse than MARRYING her?

Absolutely.

You need to stop being so emotional about Newsom. No one was talking about him because all that was 25 years ago before Guilfoyle ever got on Fox.

You lost your mind more recently than that. People change.

[Winehole23]

brain worms talking


Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Wednesday that he would allow (https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/hhs-503a-peptide-enforcement-discretion-policy-appendix-b.pdf) widespread patient access to unapproved peptide injections made popular by internet influencers, sparking serious concern among drug safety experts.


The plan would bypass the most standard Food and Drug Administration safeguards for approving drugs, such as tests to see if the compounds work better than a placebo and whether they might cause cancer or birth defects. To do so, Mr. Kennedy announced “enforcement discretion,” meaning he will tacitly allow companies to produce the unproven injections without going through the usual review process.


Mr. Kennedy, who has said publicly that he has benefited from using peptides, propelled the matter forward, declaring on podcasts early this year that the F.D.A. would lift restrictions to widespread use.


But in a highly unusual turn of events, the document released Wednesday suggested that his action was unilateral and couched the decision as Mr. Kennedy’s alone. F.D.A. scientists previously advised against widespread use of the peptides, and none were present in at least one meeting Tuesday finalizing the policy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/health/peptides-kennedy-fda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFE.TCa0.7MfEcdIt Fu3o&smid=url-share