Donald Trump, Jr. says he shares 'special bond' with fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle - as he moves on with Bettina

As Donald Trump, Jr. moves on with his new love Bettina Anderson, he maintained that he and his longtime fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle share 'a special bond.'

He exclusively told Page Six on Friday that he and Guilfoyle will 'never stop caring for each other.'

'Kimberly and I will never stop caring for each other and will always keep a special bond,' Trump Jr., 46, said in a statement.

He added a congratulations for Guilfoyle, who will serve as President-elect Donald Trump's US ambassador to Greece.

'I could not be more proud of her and the important role she’ll continue to play in my father‘s administration,' Trump Jr. said.

In his statement to Page Six, he also worked to defend her from some of the potentially damaging stories that have come out about Guilfoyle in the wake of her nomination, many of them focused on her failed relationship with the president's son.

The most recent thing that could undermine her efforts to be confirmed by the Senate came in the form of a resurfaced story claiming she allegedly sexually harassed her female assistant while she was working at Fox News. 

As the story goes, that was the reason she was let go from Fox in 2018 but she has previously vehemently denied the allegation.

'Anyone taking baseless and petty fake news cheap shots at her in the tabloids are just embarrassing themselves,' Trump Jr. said.

'She’s been an undefeated prosecutor, national TV news star, a leader of the MAGA movement and close advisor to the president. The people of Greece are getting an absolute star and now the whole world will see it more than ever,' he added.

His statement concluded: 'Since the very beginning, no one on Team Trump has worked harder than Kimberly to help elect and reelect my father - and no one deserves this ambassadorship more than she does.'

This all comes as DailyMail.com photographed Trump Jr. and socialite Bettina Anderson walking hand in hand out of a swanky restaurant in Palm Beach, despite him still not confirming his split from Guilfoyle.

The new couple spent nearly two hours at downtown hotspot Buccan, three miles from Anderson's West Palm Beach townhouse where they have been spending days and nights.

Trump Jr. dressed in a smart blue suit and white shirt open at the neck, revealed no compunction about showing off his new flame as they emerged from the restaurant just before 10pm.

Anderson – wearing loose and flowing black pants with a black vest-like top and clutching a maroon purse with a gold clasp – stayed close to her man as they approached his pickup truck parked directly opposite the restaurant, their fingers interlocked.

DailyMail.com has previously reported that Anderson is likely to have run in the same social circles as the Trumps for years and has been previously seen attending events at Mar-a-Lago.

And according to one source: 'Trump insiders have known about Bettina for months' and Don has been 'chomping at the bit to show her off at Mar-a-Lago.'

'She's been there before, of course, but he's been much more discreet about being together. And together they are,' the insider told DailyMail.com on Friday.

'He's bewitched by Bettina – her looks, her smarts, her pedigree. Now that Kim is out of the picture the relationship is going to get even more serious.'

Trump Jr. reportedly hard-launched his new girlfriend at dinner at his father's Mar-a-Lago club Wednesday night.

Sources described the couple as 'clearly in love' and revealed the pair didn't try to hide it as 'they laughed and whispered to each other in the buffet line,' Page Six reported.

Insiders also say Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle's relationship began to really falter in March, when she invited hundreds of guests to her 55th birthday party at their home in Jupiter, Florida. Trump Jr., it's been claimed, was nowhere to be seen for parts of the evening, apparently retreating to his bedroom.

Others suggest Trump Jr. has found himself increasingly embarrassed by Guilfoyle's little-left-to-the-imagination wardrobe, colorful public displays and her taste for a party lifestyle that might sit awkwardly with a Trump family increasingly mindful of its presidential legacy.

According to one former colleague at Fox News, the lawyer-turned-activist was known as 'the Margarita girl' thanks to her love of the popular cocktail and party lifestyle associated with it.

While there is no suggestion that Guilfoyle routinely drinks to excess, alcohol is certainly a touchstone for the Trumps.

Trump Jr., having drunk his way through college earlier in life, is known to take his sobriety very seriously. His sister, Ivanka, avoids alcohol.

Their father, Donald, is famously a teetotaler – a reaction to the alcoholism which claimed the life of his older brother, Fred Jr., at the age of just 42.

According to People magazine, a source close to the family believes Trump Jr.'s new lover will be a 'better fit'.

'Don Jr. has always wanted to look good in his father's eyes,' said the source.

'Someone like Bettina, who is and has been a model, and is in Waspy circles of Palm Beach is something that would impress him.'

Another source reportedly confirmed that Trump Jr. dislikes Guilfoyle's wardrobe: 'The tight dresses need to go, and she has been told that.'