A Tearful Kathie Lee Gifford Reveals the Incredible Story of How President Trump Saved Her and Her Newborn Daughter from a “Psychopathic Murderer”
Cullen Linebarger, Gateway Pundit, Feb. 22, 2025
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/watch-tearful-kathie-lee-gifford-reveals-incredible-story/)
Members of the corporate media ignore President Trump’s stories of heroism and generosity toward his fellow human beings. One recent tale, though, may be the most unbelievable story of all, and it comes from a somewhat surprising source.
Earlier this month, legendary TV presenter Kathie Lee Gifford sat down with Sage Steele to discuss her Christian faith, family and her incredible career. Toward the beginning of their interview, she surprised Steele with an astonishing story revealing how Trump saved her and her newborn daughter from a “psychopathic murderer” just over three decades ago.
This is a story she had never before shared with anyone.
“31 years ago…I was supposed to be going to host the ‘Miss America’ pageant. The FBI called my husband, and they said, ‘Mr. Gifford, we have a problem. There’s this guy. This is a very, very bad human being. Was a psychopathic murderer…a rapist and murderer. And he’s coming to get your wife,’” she explained to Steele.
Gifford, who had just months ago given birth to her daughter Cassidy, went on to say the stalker had r*ped and tortured his aunt though she fortunately had managed to escape and contact the police. After tormenting his relative, he turned his attention to Gifford.
“He left. He stole her keys and told her, ‘Now I’m going to go after Kathie Lee,’” she revealed.
The FBI then asked her then-husband to keep his schedule and hers. But Mr. Gifford would not agree until he made one phone call.
“And he called Donald,” Kathie Lee Gifford said.
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Gifford went on to explain that she had always stayed at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, which is how her family knew him.
“Frank called Donald and said, ‘Donald, we’ve got this situation,’” Gifford recalled.
“And this is why I will love this man for my whole life,” she explained while crying. “He said, ‘Frank, don’t you worry about it. I’ve got your girls. I’ve got your girls. And don’t you worry.’”
“And so Frank called back the FBI and said, ‘I called Donald Trump. He says he’s going to take care of my wife and my daughter.’”
Trump later called Gifford, who was unaware of the danger to herself, and told her that he was sending his helicopter to take her to his hotel, which left Gifford shocked, and she tried to talk him out of it. But Trump remained firm.
“I said, ‘Donald, why? He said, “Because you’ve had a baby,’ Gifford said. “I said, ‘Donald, women have babies every day. It’s no big deal. Thank you. But it’s no big deal.’
“And he goes, ‘No, congratulations. So happy for you … I’m sending my helicopter for you and your baby and your nanny.’
After she arrived in Atlantic City, Gifford revealed that “four major, major, members of Trump’s security team” came to greet her.
‘They said, ‘Mrs. Gifford, Mr. Trump wants you to know that we’re here for you,’” Gifford said. “I didn’t know what they were talking about!”
Gifford explained that she had just had a baby and that “more and more” security guards arrived to protect her in the days leading up to the pageant. She was also stunned that a guy stood outside her hotel room the whole week.
“I just never thought about it, you know?” she said. “I’m just stupid. But he never said a word. Nobody said a word to me.”
But she discovered why Trump went to such great lengths to protect her when she went downstairs and read the newspaper. The truth absolutely shocked her.
“It (newspaper headline) said ‘Kathie Lee Gifford, Death Threat.’ And I went, ‘What!’” she explained.
She then grew defiant and used colorful language when speaking to the pageant organizers, determined to proceed regardless of any potential danger.
“And then I understood everything,” Gifford continued. “I understood what Donald had done. I understood what Frank had done to try to say, you know, not be afraid and all of that.”
Gifford went to the pageant and was taken home a different route. She also later realized that an FBI officer had been protecting her then 3-year-old son Cody at her Connecticut home.
The following day, Gifford received the news every victim prays for. While she and Cody were at a local theater watching a movie, she was informed by the FBI that the stalker had been arrested.
“In the middle of the movie, one of the FBI guys comes over and goes, ‘Mrs. Gifford, we got this son of a b***h,’” she recalled, “I said, ‘Thank you so much.’”
Watch the full interview here: