10/16/2026
THIS IS HUGE: The MAGA donor at the center of Kimberly Guilfoyle's ouster just sued her and her lawyers for defamation, and he's taking it to a jury.
Eric Deters is the Trump donor Guilfoyle reportedly asked to wire $100,000 to her American Express account.
That request already cost her the ambassadorship to Greece. She was forced to resign on Tuesday.
Deters isn't stopping there.
According to The Hill, he filed suit in Kenton Circuit Court in Kentucky against Guilfoyle and her attorneys, Jesse Binnal and David M. Schwartz. He's alleging defamation and false light invasion of privacy, plus breach of contract against Guilfoyle herself. He wants damages and a jury trial.
Here's what set him off.
Guilfoyle's team told the Wall Street Journal that his texts were false and that he was a known blackmailer.
Deters says neither is true. He says he has never been accused of blackmail, never been charged with it, and never owed Guilfoyle a dime.
And the texts tell their own story. According to messages obtained by NewsNation, Guilfoyle appeared to beg Deters to keep their arrangement quiet, warning him it could cost her the ambassadorship.
It did.
Deters says he paid Guilfoyle $300,000 over several years to speak at his conservative Freedom Fest event. He told Anderson Cooper this week that suing her is going to be fun.
Now everything comes out in court. The texts. The money. The arrangement. All of it, in front of a jury.
Even Trump couldn't defend her. He said he didn't like what he was reading.
He's about to read a lot more.
Trump's own donors are turning on his inner circle, and this one is just getting started.