Last week, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s tenure as the U.S. ambassador to Greece became so controversial that several congressional Democrats suggested she should probably be criminally prosecuted for corruption. The last thing the former Fox News contributor (and former fiancée to Donald Trump Jr.) needed was another round of allegations.

Nevertheless, on Saturday afternoon, another shoe dropped. The Wall Street Journal reported:

Kimberly Guilfoyle, as America’s newly minted ambassador to Greece, boasted at Davos about her close ties to two Greek tycoons and said they were bankrolling her high-rolling trips around the world.

According to people who heard the conversation and an audio recording reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Guilfoyle was flexing her connections to wealthy Greek businessmen in January as she made an urgent request. She was being blocked from attending an upcoming dinner being held for Eric Trump, and she wanted to enlist an American businessman who was on the guest list to help get her in the door.

According to the recording, which has not been independently verified by MS NOW, the beleaguered ambassador said, “You know, I can deliver the world to you. Which you deserve.” At another point in the exchange, she reportedly told a businessman, “I’m going to make you a lot of f—ing money.”

The same recording also reportedly featured Guilfoyle expressing outrage about not having received an invitation to a dinner being organized by Greek House Davos.

“You don’t have the f—ing U.S., you know, ambassador to Greece not come. She should be kissing my f—ing ass,” Guilfoyle said of the event’s organizer.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Athens told the Journal that the ambassador’s “career in and out of public service is guided by deep and abiding values” and that she had “faithfully followed State Department ethics and gift reporting guidelines.”

Nevertheless, the report was published a day after NBC News reported that the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General had opened an investigation into Guilfoyle.

As for the president who nominated her for the job, Donald Trump commented on the controversy for the first time on Friday afternoon, telling reporters, “I just heard about it. It’s too bad. I mean, I don’t know. She’s an ambassador. I just heard a little bit about it. I don’t know too much, but she was always very nice.”

The fact that the president used the phrase “it’s too bad” suggested he wasn’t exactly eager to rally to her defense.

Indeed, there’s every reason to believe Guilfoyle might want to start packing. The Associated Press, CNN and Fox News each ran separate reports in recent days saying that Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are considering firing the ambassador. (Those reports have not been independently verified by MS NOW, which has reached out to the White House for comment.)

The Fox News report was especially damning in that it included fresh allegations: “Sources described a hostile workplace in which Guilfoyle allegedly threatened to fire employees. They also claim that she demoted members of her security detail over minor incidents, including an officer who reportedly failed to answer a 4 a.m. request for ice while she was vacationing in Mykonos.”

As for the reactions on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso appeared on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” and conceded that the controversy is tough to ignore.

“Well, what we’ve seen in the reports is very troubling. It’s concerning. And I’m sure there’s going to be an investigation,” the Wyoming Republican said. The longtime GOP senator, who voted to confirm Guilfoyle, added, “I know that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will have oversight and look into that as well. But I think the public has a right to know what was — what is found, and it is quite a bit of concern.”

This post updates our related earlier coverage.

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