Supermarket Scion Footed Bill for Kimberly Guilfoyle's $60K Jan. 6 Speech: WaPo

[babylonsister]

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Supermarket Scion Footed Bill for Kimberly Guilfoyle’s $60K Jan. 6 Speech: WaPo
SPONSORED BY PUBLIX
AJ McDougall
Breaking News Reporter
Published Jun. 15, 2022 12:19AM ET

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s silver tongue earned her a cool $60,000 for a two-and-a-half minute speech at the MAGA rally that then-President Donald Trump held hours before the Capitol insurrection. Where did that money come from? Your groceries, according to The Washington Post, which reported on Tuesday that Guilfoyle’s hefty speaking fee came courtesy of Julie Fancelli, the 72-year-old heir to her father’s Publix supermarket fortune. Two sources familiar with the situation told the Post that Fancelli, as sponsoring donor, had funneled the money through Charlie Kirk’s youth organization, Turning Point Action. The conservative nonprofit’s involvement in funding Guilfoyle’s speech was first reported by CNN earlier on Tuesday. The Post reported that Fancelli had in late December 2020 wired $650,000 to several groups listed as “participating” organizers of the rally on an archived version of the event’s website. Besides Turning Point Action, the newspaper has previously reported, these groups included Women for America First and the Republican Attorneys General Association’s nonprofit branch.

[hlthe2b]

1. Ever since that grocer chain all but took over the South, I've seen PUBIX, not Publix

I"m not dyslexic (and yes, I know it would be a phonetic spelling), but that's all I saw. My sister has told that to so many people that now all they think of is dark curly hair in their produce when they think of that chain of Union-busting grocery stores.

Childish, I know, but

[kentuck]

2. I am skeptical of this story.

This story was hurting them with their base. They wanted to distance themselves from the "fraud" stories.

[Orangepeel]

3. It's ridiculous. It was all one big slush fund

a rich person was also conned. it was still a con.