Even the US Congress wants to know who brought down Bolojan

Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent an official letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether the US government was involved in bringing down the government of Romanian Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan, as Kimberly Guilfoyle, the US ambassador to Greece, reportedly claimed according to the Wall Street Journal — Meeks is expecting a reply and the requested documents by October 15. The Democratic congressman is asking whether the WSJ report is accurate that the ambassador essentially said the United States had participated in the fall of the Romanian government and could do the same in Greece. If so, he wants to know what Guilfoyle based this on, and whether the State Department, the White House, the National Security Council or any other US agency authorized or directed activities aimed at influencing the composition or survival of the Romanian government.

Meeks also wants to know when the department learned of the ambassador's remarks, whether she was reprimanded for them, and whether the Romanian and Greek governments were contacted about the matter. The letter also includes an extensive document request covering records generated since September 2025, including the ambassador's official trips to Romania, Bulgaria and Albania; whether private individuals or companies provided her with transportation; the department's ethics guidance regarding the ambassador's private business interests; and all records related to the Greek Aktor Group, its LNG business lines, its head Alexandros Exarchos, and lobbyist Christos Marafatsos, who is close to the ambassador. This list alone says more about the ambassador's diplomatic work than any press release ever could.

According to the WSJ, on March 18, at a dinner at the US embassy in Athens attended by the Greek energy minister, Guilfoyle said that the Bolojan government would soon fall because it stood in the way of American energy interests, adding that this could be done to any country. On March 31, the ambassador had dinner at a restaurant in Bucharest with PSD chairman Sorin Grindeanu, then-Energy Minister Bogdan Ivan, and presidential adviser Bogdan Vlădică. Bolojan had refused to buy expensive American liquefied natural gas, and his government was brought down on May 5 by a no-confidence motion backed by the PSD, AUR and other lawmakers. Grindeanu and AUR chairman George Simion told G4Media that they had not discussed bringing down the government with the ambassador, while Guilfoyle's lawyer denies the WSJ's account.

Meanwhile, the State Department's inspector general has opened an investigation into the ambassador over a separate matter, after a Trump donor alleged that she asked him to pay off her $100,000 credit card debt in exchange for securing him access to the top echelons of the administration. Just days ago, Rubio called her an extremely effective diplomat, while Trump said over the weekend only that it was too bad, that he didn't know much about the matter, but that the ambassador had always been very nice. So the American president knows just as much about his own ambassadors as he does about the Romanian government crisis: essentially nothing — but she's always nice.

The story has a particular irony to it: in February 2025, it was US Vice President JD Vance who lectured Europe in Munich, saying that the Romanian Constitutional Court had made a mockery of democracy by annulling a presidential election suspected of Russian interference. A year and a half later, one of the American government's own ambassadors is boasting at a dinner in Athens that Washington can bring down the government of any country it chooses.

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