The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure from Fox
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Source: New Yorker
As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, he trails Joe Biden by thirty percentage points among female voters. As part of his campaign, Trump has been doing all he can to showcase female stars in the Republican Party, from nominating Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court to naming Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former Fox News host and legal analyst, his campaigns finance chair. Guilfoyle, however, may not be an ideal emissary. In November, 2018, a young woman who had been one of Guilfoyles assistants at Fox News sent company executives a confidential, forty-two-page draft complaint that accused Guilfoyle of repeated sexual harassment, and demanded monetary relief. The document, which resulted in a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement, raises serious questions about Guilfoyles fitness as a character witness for Trump, let alone as a top campaign official.
In the 2020 campaign, Trump has spotlighted no woman more brightly than Guilfoyle. She was given an opening-night speaking slot at the Republican National Convention. And this fall Guilfoyle, who is Donald Trump, Jr.,s girlfriend, has been crisscrossing the country as a Trump surrogate, on what is billed as the Four More Tour. At a recent Women for Trump rally in Pennsylvania, Guilfoyle claimed that the President was creating eighteen hundred new female-owned businesses in the United States a day, and praised Trump for promoting school choice, which, she said, was supported by single mothers like myself.
Guilfoyle has maintained that her decision to move from television news to a political campaign was entirely voluntary. In fact, Fox News forced her out in July, 2018several years before her contracts expiration date. At the time, she was a co-host of the political chat show The Five. Media reports suggested that she had been accused of workplace impropriety, including displaying lewd pictures of male genitalia to colleagues, but few additional details of misbehavior emerged. Guilfoyle publicly denied any wrongdoing, and last year a lawyer representing her told The New Yorker that any suggestion she had engaged in misconduct at Fox is patently false. But, as I reported at the time, shortly after Guilfoyle left her job, Fox secretly paid an undisclosed sum to the assistant, who no longer works at the company. Recently, two well-informed sources told me that Fox, in order to avoid going to trial, had agreed to pay the woman upward of four million dollars.
Until now, the specific accusations against Guilfoyle have remained largely hidden. The draft complaint, which was never filed in court, is covered by a nondisclosure agreement. The former assistant has not been publicly identified, and, out of respect for the rights of alleged victims of sexual harassment, The New Yorker is honoring her confidentiality. Reached for comment, she said, I wish you well. But I have nothing to say.
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-history-of-kimberly-guilfoyles-departure-from-fox
OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)msongs
(67,199 posts)Cha
(295,929 posts)shocking.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)She and Butthead Jr are a perfect match. I wish them much misery and total financial disaster.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)But whats this about being a single mother? Ick!
LSparkle
(11,660 posts)THANKFULLY!
niyad
(112,438 posts)For how many days?? Tens of thousands of businesses closing, millions unemployed, and she spews this bilge
Your meds need adjusting, kimmie.
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)1,800 new women owned businesses/day X 1,460 days = 2,628,000 woman owned businesses
Pendejo45 had created 6,688,000 million jobs from 1/20/2017 to 1/19/2020
As of July 2020, Pendejo45 has lost 7,800,000 million jobs.
That's a wipe out of the approximately 14,488,000 jobs since January 2020.
Where are the 2,628,000 women owned businesses?
No Vested Interest
(5,157 posts)Is she a home-wrecker?
Her boyfriend, Don Jr. was married with five children, as I recall.
When and how did the music end?
Illumination
(2,458 posts)corrupt Trump low life associate sniffing out $ & in need of counseling...
Hekate
(90,202 posts)What the HELL does Kim snort?! Her behavior as described matches that of the worst male harassers, minus only actual rape.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Six sources said Guilfoyles behavior included showing personal photographs of male genitalia to colleagues (and identifying whose genitals they were), regularly discussing sexual matters at work and engaging in emotionally abusive behavior toward hair and makeup artists and support staff.
According to sources, Guilfoyle was the subject of a human resources investigation that started last year and involved interviews with Fox News employees, including hair and makeup artists and producers. Sources said HR warned Guilfoyle about her behavior several times, including a stern warning from Kevin Lord, the head of Fox News HR, in the fall of 2017. HuffPost also began investigating Guilfoyles workplace conduct last year.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kimberly-guilfoyle-misconduct-allegations-fox-news_n_5b5a6064e4b0b15aba96f4de
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)We report, you decide.
And...she's perfect for the red don campaign--experience in paying hush money and hiding wrongdoing!
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,158 posts)Plus Brian Ballard and Gordon Sondland as regional vice-chairmen: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211031694 (with the prescient line in 2018 "Maybe someone should check out Louis DeJoy?" )
Botany
(70,291 posts)...be a private matter* but she has been part of the Fox/Right Wing/Fundy Christian sect that used anti LGBT hate speech and
some sort sexual purity standards on other people for years in order to gain political power .... fuck her.
* as long as it is not sexual harassment or abusive
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) Tweeted:
The one of @DonaldJTrumpJr would just be a thumbnail
Link to tweet
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spooky3
(34,303 posts)applegrove
(118,022 posts)Alert: feature, not LBN
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