John Oliver returned to the “Last Week Tonight” desk Sunday night and, before his big story on generic medications and national drug shortages, teed off on what he called the “pretty tacky” scandal ensnaring Kimberly Guilfoyle.
\n\nBut the big news came at the very end of the program when Oliver, after trolling Liberty Mutual’s Liberty Biberty mascot with scandalous fanfic imagery, declared, “I’m thrilled to be part of the Skydance family! Hope you’re happy with what you bought, guys! We’re never gonna change!”
\n\nAs for the Guilfoyle of it all, according to text messages obtained by The Wall Street Journal, Eric Deters, a Trump donor who once unsuccessfully ran for governor of Kentucky, is alleging that Guilfoyle — a former Fox News personality who’s dated Gavin Newsom and Donald Trump Jr. — begged him to pay off her $100,000 American Express bill just days before she was confirmed to be Trump’s U.S. ambassador to Greece.
\n\n“Honey please,” she begged him in the published messages.
\n\nCue Oliver: “OK, first, that text is something: ‘Honey please, send a hundred thousand dollars to my credit card and sweetie, don’t go on the news later to talk about it, and pumpkin, please send a…
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