page_title: Kimberly Guilfoyle
section_title: Trump administration and Trump 2020 campaign
hierarchical_section_title: Kimberly Guilfoyle / Media and political career / Trump administration and Trump 2020 campaign
caption_attribution_description: Kimberly Guilfoyle speaking with supporters at a rally with Donald Trump, Jr. at the West Valley GOP Office in Sun City, Arizona. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
context_page_description: Kimberly Ann Guilfoyle is an American attorney, prosecutor, and television news personality serving as an advisor to Donald Trump.
  Guilfoyle studied at University of California, Davis and the University of San Francisco and was a prosecuting attorney in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. She served as an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco from 2000 to 2004. Guilfoyle married Democratic politician and future California Governor Gavin Newsom and was First Lady of San Francisco during Newsom's first two years as mayor of that city. She is a member of the Republican Party and has been the partner of Donald Trump Jr. since 2018.
  She worked at Fox News from 2006 to 2018 and co-hosted The Five on the network. She later joined America First Policies, a pro-Trump super PAC, to campaign for Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections.
context_section_description: In December 2016, it was reported that Guilfoyle was being considered to serve as press secretary for President Donald Trump. Sean Spicer was considered the front-runner for the position and was ultimately selected. On the May 12, 2017, edition of The Five, co-host Bob Beckel hinted that Guilfoyle turned the job down. However, in an interview with Bay Area News Group on May 15, 2017, Guilfoyle confirmed she was in contact with the White House about the position following Spicer's resignation. "I'm a patriot, and it would be an honor to serve the country", Guilfoyle said. "I think it'd be a fascinating job, it's a challenging job, and you need someone really determined and focused, a great communicator in there with deep knowledge to be able to handle that position." However, on May 19, Guilfoyle said she was under contract with Fox, indicating she turned down the White House. One month later she extended her contract with Fox.
  In 2018, The Washington Post described Guilfoyle as a "conservative cheerleader for President Trump."
   In 2020, Guilfoyle was reported to be the chair of the finance committee of the Trump Victory Committee.
  The Trump campaign is paying Guilfoyle $180,000 a year through the campaign manager's private company, Parscale Strategy. Guilfoyle has been a surrogate on the stump and taken on broad advisory roles. In the Trump 2020 campaign, Guilfoyle managed a fund-raising division. This division paid socialite Somers Farkas to raise money. The fundraising division managed by Guilfoyle was in internal turmoil amid departures of experienced staff and accusations of irresponsible spending.
  During the 2020 US presidential campaign, Guilfoyle tested positive for COVID-19, but her boyfriend, Donald Trump Jr., tested negative. The pair returned to New York.
  Guilfoyle gave a speech that was widely described by some observers as unnecessarily loud or unhinged at the 2020 Republican National Convention, while others in media described it as passionate. She was criticized for describing herself as a first-generation American when her mother was from Puerto Rico, and hence, an American citizen.
caption: Guilfoyle speaking at a campaign rally in Sun City, Arizona in November 2018
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