(KRON) -- Former U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly tried to blame AI for damning texts that surfaced last week that led to President Trump calling for her resignation this week. According to The Wall Street Journal, which first broke the news of her asking a Trump donor to pay her $100,000 American Express bill, Guilfoyle told the White House the money-requesting texts were not legitimate, but had instead been generated by artificial intelligence.
White House official didn't buy it, according to the Journal.
Texts reviewed by KRON4 partner NewsNation indicate that just days ahead of her congressional confirmation hearing for ambassador, Guilfoyle texted a prominent Kentucky Trump donor asking for money.
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"Honey please I need you to get this done for me today," she texted Eric Deters, a former Kentucky congressional candidate. The text was accompanied by a praying hands emoji and a PDF with instructions for wiring the money to her AmEx account.
Deters declined, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage to do so. In a media appearance last week, Deters slammed Guilfoyle as a "grifter."
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Guilfoyle is from San Francisco and is the city's former first lady, having been married to Gavin Newsom during his term as mayor. A former Fox News on-air personality, Guilfoyle was also once engaged to President Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr.
However, in the wake of her resignation Tuesday, President Trump distanced himself from her.
"No, she wasn't a member of my family," Trump told reporters. "She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago."
Guilfoyle resigned from her role as ambassador on Tuesday, issuing a lengthy statement on social media in which she slammed the allegations as "false" and said she would "vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity."
"I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service," she added, although it's unclear what exactly she was alluding to.
"There were no real decades of public service, there was some years of public service. There was some years in the media," said KRON4 political analyst Michael Yaki. "There was some years when she was dating Donald Trump Jr. and being a flunky for the Trump Administration, but there were not decades of public service."
