Kimberly Guilfoyle, the most recent of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to have a strong link with a member of his family, will be nominated as ambassador to Greece.
Trump said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday that Kimberly has been a close friend and ally for many years. She is highly equipped to represent the United States and protect its interests overseas because of her vast legal, media, and political expertise, as well as her keen intelligence.
Former Fox News host Guilfoyle has been a part of Trump’s world for a long time. She served as the finance chair for the Trump campaign in 2020 and has since acted as a stand-in, giving vehement speeches at the last two Republican National Conventions.
She witnessed much of what transpired prior to the Capitol revolt and assisted in raising funds for those responsible for its planning, which made her testimony before the House Jan. 6 subcommittee in 2022 significant.
Additionally, Guilfoyle has been married for a long time to Trump Jr.’s eldest son. In 2018, they started dating, and in 2020, they became engaged.
What the current state of their relationship is is unclear. Hours before Trump said that he would be the ambassador, tabloid images of Don Jr. holding hands with a Palm Beach socialite (pictured in the family box at the RNC this summer) on Tuesday morning sparked speculations that the two were no longer together.
Trump Jr. said that Guilfoyle loves America and has always aspired to be an ambassador for the nation. He was pleased with her.
Guilfoyle said she is open to accepting the position, which requires Senate approval. I am eager to implement President Trump’s objectives, support our Greek allies, and usher in a new era of peace and prosperity, she wrote in a social media post.
According to her, the democratic principles that originated in Greece influenced the formation of the United States. We now have the chance to pay tribute to that heritage by bringing about better times both domestically and internationally.
Presidents frequently designate those who are friendly with them as ambassadors. The American Foreign Service Association claims that presidents have been using political cronies, like affluent contributors, to occupy around 30% of chief-of-mission posts rather than professional foreign service officers for decades.
Trump is hardly the first president to face criticism after appointing a family member—even an in-law—to the position.
Some of Trump s picks come from his family tree
The most recent nomination from Trump’s family is Guilfoyle.
Massad Boulos, the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, is a millionaire Lebanese American businessman. Trump appointed him a senior adviser on Middle Eastern and Arab affairs earlier this month.
Boulos has long had a tight relationship with influential figures in Lebanon. He has lost both of his attempts to enter parliament. His most recent position was to assist in spearheading the Trump campaign’s outreach initiatives to Michigan’s Arab American community.
His son Michael wed Tiffany Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2022.
Last month, Trump picked another in-law of one of his children for an ambassadorship. He said he would name real estate mogul Charles Kushner, whom he released from several federal charges during his first term, as the ambassador to France.
Jared Kushner, Trump s ex-top adviser in the White House, is married to Trump s oldest daughter Ivanka. Kushner is their father.
It is not clear what, if any, official part Trump s kids will play in his government. Not plan to be involved in politics, Ivanka said after her father s reelection campaign was announced in 2022. She wanted to focus on her family s private life.
It s not unusual for presidents to nominate relatives
Presidents have used family members to work in their administrations for a long time. John Quincy Adams, the president s son, was appointed as the minister to Prussia by John Adams.
The National Constitution Center says that during the 19th and 20th centuries, many presidents hired relatives to work in the White House as secretaries, aides, or unofficial advisors.
Some of them were Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James Buchanan, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and James Madison.
John F. Kennedy put his brother-in-law R. Sargent Shriver in charge of the Peace Corps in 1961. He also chose his brother Robert Kennedy to be U.S. attorney general. Kennedy was confirmed and did a great job for three years.
The Federal Anti-Nepotism Statute, also known as the Bobby Kennedy law, was made into law in 1967 because of the controversy over RFK s nomination. It says that public officials can not put a family member in a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control.
The test has been done more than once, like when Bill Clinton put Hillary Clinton in charge of a health reform task force in the 1990s and when Trump made Kushner a senior advisor during his first term.
Over the years, experts have had different ideas about how to interpret the law. For example, a federal judge in the Clinton case in 1993 said that the law does not apply to the presidency because the White House is not a agency.
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