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Trumpworld reportedly 'aghast' at Kimberly Guilfoyle over money she made on Jan. 6

Eric Ting

Bay Area Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, revealed earlier this week that former first lady of San Francisco Kimberly Guilfoyle was paid $60,000 for a two-minute, 46-second speech she gave prior to the violence.

Trump advisors are reportedly not happy that Guilfoyle, the former Fox News personality and current girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., was paid $346 a second. 

"People in Trumpworld are sharing that clip," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman told CNN of the video of Lofgren revealing Guilfoyle's compensation. "They are aghast that this is the amount of money that she got for a speech to introduce her boyfriend. They couldn’t really get over, I had one one former adviser say to me, essentially, these were folks who were raising money in small amounts from retirees, telling them this was going to some legal fight that didn’t really happen. And instead, Kimberly Guilfoyle is getting paid."

Possibly as a result of Guilfoyle's peers being "aghast" that it appeared she was ripping off "retirees" who bought into "Stop the Steal," anonymous sources went running to both the Washington Post and CNN to clarify that the $60,000 came from a single wealthy donor through conservative group Turning Point USA.

That donor is reportedly Publix heiress Julie Fancelli, whose name came up in text messages obtained by ProPublica last year. In those messages, Guilfoyle, who was a fundraiser for Trump in 2020, bragged about how she "raised so much money for" the rally preceding the riots, adding, "Literally one of my donors Julie at 3 million." The exact amount of money Fancelli donated to the rally is not clear.

"The question is, are Trump individuals benefiting from this whole enterprise of raising money around the so-called 'Stop the Steal,'" Lofgren told CNN. "And the answer is yes."

Lofgren added, "I'm not saying it's a crime, but I'm saying it's grift."