Guilfoyle accuser: I'll depose her myself to prove I'm telling the truth

President Donald Trump was reportedly awaiting Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation shortly before she tendered it. The US diplomat representing American interests to Greece was accused of abusing her office to make money — and one of her accusers celebrated her downfall even as he vowed to hold her accountable if necessary in the courts.

"My first response when asked that today is going to be: It's a great day for American diplomacy," Eric Deters told conservative pundit Sam Stein. "I'm glad. I'm glad she's gone. Kimberly Guilfoyle is a wicked, evil, manipulative grifter. And the reports that were coming out of Greece weren't good. But I'll take full credit for the resignation, because I think she would have survived everything in Greece. They could have told her to cut it out. It was over there in Greece, and she would have survived that."

He added, "What she could not survive was the black-and-white text messages, the embarrassment, the humiliation of her asking me for $100,000 to pay off her Amex, and at the same time wanting to keep it a secret and cover it up."

Deters continued, "And just to let you know, too — not to monopolize the conversation here at the outset — I'm going to sue her for defamation this week. I have to, because she's concocted this thing that, oh, this was for money that I owed her for prior work. And that's not true, and she knows it. She started out telling the Wall Street Journal that the messages were fake and [unclear: "I didn't fly"]. Then she said I was a known blackmailer, whatever the hell that freaking means."

He concluded, "So I'm going to be really aggressive against her, and I'm suing her for defamation right here in good old Kentucky, near Cincinnati, which means I will get to take her deposition, and it'll be fun."

Deters added he also hopes to depose Guilfoyle himself.

"I'm looking forward to that day," Deters told Stein. "You have to understand something about a lawsuit. They're very dangerous, because a lawsuit allows you to issue subpoenas. A lawsuit allows you to request documents. A lawsuit allows you to take depositions under oath, which means I can depose everyone on her staff. I can subpoena documents."

Deters, who accused Guilfoyle of trying to shake him down for $100,000 so she could pay an American Express bill, broke the story about Guilfoyle even as other reports focused on her leading a lavish lifestyle with powerful Greek business interests during her time in office. As the reports continued to leak, Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted a private meeting in Greece with Guilfoyle that was reportedly very heated.

In addition to the ethical concerns involved in Guilfoyle's alleged conduct, former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos told The Bulwark's Michael Weiss earlier in October that they are also controversial because Greece has recently had a positive relationship with the United States, one the government does not wish to disrupt.

"But it's really interesting, because there also is this tendency in many elements of Greek society, the press and the government, to downplay this, because U.S.-Greek relations are actually quite good," Polymeropoulos told Weiss. "So what's going to be interesting to see is how much more traction this gets, with the notion that both you and I know there are numerous journalistic outlets that are following stories of the ambassador's kind of nightlife and other proclivities."