Last time it was Steve Bannon who held multiple interviews with Michael Wolff for his book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. This time it is White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles who sat down for a series of recorded ‘on the record’ interviews with Vanity Fair author Chris Whipple. [Article w/ Paywall]
The interviews with Susie Wiles have been taking place all year, with recordings of her statements made to ensure she could not retract the divisive content now deployed by Vanity Fair at a critical moment in the Trump administration.
The intent of the Vanity Fair outline is to paint the most negative light possible, and it appears Susie Wiles gave Chris Whipple all the ammunition to do so.
TIMING: This anti-Trump narrative, supported by the toxic statements by Wiles, is dropped at a key moment when European leadership is purposefully pushing a narrative against President Trump. This series of articles and documented interviews hits at a moment of merging interests against the administration. The coordination is noted.
SUBSTANCE: The New York Times outlines some of the statements by Susie Wiles that are going to grab attention.
[…] “Over the course of 11 interviews, Ms. Wiles offered pungent assessments of the president and his team: Mr. Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vice President JD Vance has “been a conspiracy theorist for a decade” and his conversion from Trump critic to ally was based not on principle but was “sort of political” because he was running for Senate. Elon Musk is “an avowed ketamine” user and “an odd, odd duck,” whose actions were not always “rational” and left her “aghast.” Russell T. Vought, the budget director, is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” And Attorney General Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” in handling the Epstein files.”
[…] She said she urged Mr. Trump not to pardon the most violent rioters from Jan. 6, 2021, which he did anyway. She unsuccessfully tried to get him to delay his major tariffs because of a “huge disagreement” among his advisers. And she said the administration needed to “look harder” at deportations to prevent mistakes.
[…] She attributes her ability to work for Mr. Trump to growing up with an alcoholic father, the sportscaster Pat Summerall. “High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink,” she said. “And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.” While Mr. Trump does not drink, she said he has “an alcoholic’s personality” and operates with “a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”
[…] Ms. Wiles confided in Mr. Whipple in March that she had told Mr. Trump that his presidency was not supposed to be a retribution tour. “We have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over,” she said then. When that did not happen by August, she told Mr. Whipple that “I don’t think he’s on a retribution tour” but said that he was aiming at people who did “bad things” in coming after him. “In some cases, it may look like retribution,” she said. “And there may be an element of that from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me.”
[…] In the interviews published by Vanity Fair, Ms. Wiles faulted Ms. Bondi, one of her closest friends in the administration, for her early handling of the Epstein files, an issue that has been a cause célèbre for Mr. Trump’s right-wing base.
“I think she completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this,” Ms. Wiles said. “First, she gave them binders full of nothingness. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk.” Mr. Vance, by contrast, understood the sensitivity because he himself was “a conspiracy theorist,” she said.
Ms. Wiles said she has read the Epstein documents and acknowledged that Mr. Trump’s name is in them. “We know he’s in the file,” she said. “And he’s not in the file doing anything awful.”
[…] Ms. Wiles described frustration with Mr. Musk, the billionaire who early in the year was empowered to eviscerate federal agencies and fire employees en masse with almost no process. “He’s an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are. You know, it’s not helpful, but he is his own person.” When he shared a post saying that Stalin, Mao and Hitler didn’t murder millions, their public sector workers did, Ms. Wiles said, “I think that’s when he’s microdosing.” Asked what she meant, she said, “he’s an avowed ketamine” user.
[…] In the interview with The Times on Monday, Ms. Wiles took issue with the quote attributed to her about his drug use. “That’s ridiculous,” she said. “I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know.” But Mr. Whipple played a tape for The Times in which she could be heard saying it.
[…] She acknowledged sharp internal divisions over Mr. Trump’s announcement of major tariffs last spring. “There was a huge disagreement over whether” tariffs were “a good idea,” she said. “We told Donald Trump, ‘Hey, let’s not talk about tariffs today. Let’s wait until we have the team in complete unity and then we’ll do it.’” But he announced them anyway and “it’s been more painful than I expected.”
[…] As for the potential successors, Mr. Vance and Mr. Rubio, she distinguished how each of them came around to supporting Mr. Trump after initially opposing him. “Marco was not the sort of person that would violate his principles,” she said. “He just won’t. And so he had to get there.” As for Mr. Vance, “his conversion came when he was running for the Senate. And I think his conversion was a little bit more, sort of political.”
Mr. Rubio told Mr. Whipple what he has said publicly, that “if JD Vance runs for president, he’s going to be our nominee and I’ll be one of the first people to support him.” (read more)
Immediately after publication of the Vanity Fair story, Mrs. Wiles took to Twitter to explain her position:
[SOURCE]
Mrs. Wiles never explains why, for all that is reasonable and holy, she would even sit down with Vanity Fair for eleven interviews over the course of the year.
If you find yourself looking at this narrative engineering and saying, “WTF, why would she be so stupid?” You are not alone.
Perhaps it’s the old axiom that sooner or later the senior staff always convince themselves that they are the star of the show. Or perhaps Mrs. Wiles just never heard the Snake Poem:
On her way to work one morning
Down the path ‘longside the lake
A tender-hearted woman saw a poor half-frozen snake
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
“Oh well,” she cried, “I’ll take you in and I’ll take care of you”
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk
And laid him by thе fireside with some honеy and some milk
She hurried home from work that night, and soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she’d taken in had been revived
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
She clutched him to her bosom, “You’re so beautiful,” she cried
“But if I hadn’t brought you in, by now you might have died”
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight
Instead of saying thanks, that snake gave her a vicious bite
“Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven’s sake
Take me in, tender woman,” sighed the snake
“I saved you,” cried the woman
“And you’ve bitten me, but why?
And you know your bite is poisonous and now I’m gonna die”
“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in”
How in the hell did someone not put a stop to this after the first couple of interviews, she had to have been hiding the fact she was doing these interviews.
This appears to be poor White House organization. Any interviews with White house personnel should be cleared with and followed by the White House press secretary and communications director.
Likely comments from WH comminications director…
Not a good idea Susie? Why do you want to do this, its a bad idea because of the potential for bias? Be careful not to give ‘anti-dministration one liners”. “OK, we will have a lawyer sit in”. “Have you obtained assignment of copyright to any recordings, and final approval of any articles? We’ll check with you and the lawyer after each interview.
The only thing I can think is that she wants out and Trump wouldn’t agree with her quitting.
… or she’s a back-stabbing RINO like so many others have been. Full of herself and thinking she’s indispensable.
Hence the placing of Pam “Bill Barr” Bondi as AG of the DOJ.
Wiles is not the President’s best friend, if she were she would never have granted Vanity Fair the interview.
I think there should have been a pre-nup agreement with Vanity Scare.
You cannot print the article until we get a preview.
We also own complete editorial power to strike any paragraph we don’t like.
Otherwise, no interview.
Suck on it and get back to us when you are ready to play fair, Vanity Scare.
She shouldn’t have done it at all. To what purpose? Even if she didn’t say the things she said, how does an interview with that Commie sheet advance the Administration?
Sounds too much like Obama and his “Michelle, My Belle.”
DJT didn’t spend years in Fla without discovering EXACTLY what kind of operator MzWiles is. DJT gives them all the rope they want. Some swing with it. Others hang themselves. MzWiles looks like a hanger, not a swinger. boohoohoo
Usually there is an end of the year shakeup in these Administrations. Right ?
I can see a handful of pink slips being handed out, and a few “resignations to pursue family matters.”
I’d like to see some spit and vinegar again like during the initial 3 months.
Bingo! That, plus Sundance: “Perhaps it’s the old axiom that sooner or later the senior staff always convince themselves that they are the star of the show. :
I say GREAT an enemy exposed. Goodbye, Ms Wiles.
“If you find yourself looking at this narrative engineering and saying, “WTF, why would she be so stupid?” You are not alone.” This sums it up perfectly. Assuming it was done out of stupidity.
She’s a fame wh0re.
Seriously though. I would not speak to any news outlet at all, let alone Vanity F’ing Fair, as a member of the Trump administration. Nothing you say to any of them will be used correctly. Speak directly to the public via Twitter or Truth if necessary.
I ask this regularly about President Trump, it’s like he expects that someday one of the State media operatives will actually treat him fairly.
Not going to happen, but I guess hope springs eternal.
I thought I had read long ago that Sundance didn’t trust Susie? She had been a DeSantis supporter so could hurt Trump? Maybe I’m wrong though. It was a long time ago.
I think we can dismiss “stupidity”…
Cakculated, deliberate,all the doe eyed protestations are ingenuous.
Now she says that President Trump is on the Epstein plane manifest.
She knows precisely what she is doing.
As does Bondi…
Good Cop/Bad Cop
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15388883/Trumps-enforcer-eviscerates-Pam-Bondi-Epstein.html
I say ONE interview sitting down is one too many! What in the world? 11?!!!! It reminds me of how King Hezekiah in the Bible opened up everything to the Babylonian envoys, “And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. 2 Kings 20:13
Discernment is so needed, and this was basically showing the media and the world what should be guarded- information and stories. Pride is often attributed with the above Bible verse. Who knows why she did this.
Nothing in politics is done by accident.
Nicely summed up
And in history, Chamberlain in England invited the NAZIs to his home for a meeting. While there, they assessed all of his paintings and valuables as worthy additions to the Third Reich! Don’t know if that’s true, but it was portrayed as such in a movie. Art imitating life.
Perfect timing for maximum damage kicking off the midterms. The democrats take the house, and President Trump is once again put on defense for his remaining term. Wiles has accomplished her mission. Thune and Johnson high five in the cigar room while McConnell drools in corner.
I think they are a little early with this. Also see who you need to send on their way with her.
Excelleration of everything at once. The cabal trying to burn the house to the ground.
This administration is doing a perfect job of burning itself to the ground.
I have never seen an administration crash and burn so quickly. Less than a year.
The ineptness is breathtaking.
That’s ridiculous. The administration did not “crash and burn.” What are you smoking? This administration has been the best administration in history, despite being attacked every second of every day. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be bumps. You sound like a troll. An inept troll.
Accelleration, perhaps??
I prefer to dream about a complete and utter shakeup of the Admin.
Lots of snakes and roaches kicked /fumigated OUT.
I hope.
Excellent.
Now PDJT can fire her big fat keister with no regrets.
And she can take her no-show-to-the-office, do-nothing pal Pam Bondi with her.
Someone enlighten me as to who is in the photo with her. TIA
That would be Mrs. Sheldon Adelson, owner and operator of Ted Cruz.
She is an Israeli citizen and medical Dr. I believe.
Lol. Excellent.
..hmmm…wander ….is this reason why some ppl call him Talm*d Ted ?????
Miriam Farbstein Ochshorn Adelson
She is a mother, physician, and wife/widow.
OUR team?
Best workplace advice I ever heard (from a vice-president of electro-optical engineering at a major corporation) is, “Always make your boss look good.”
Welcome to the new administration, the same as the old administration. No wonder why Trump is humping the neocon foreign policy agenda like a Bush scion instead of spending all his capital on the issues his voters elected him for. Affordability remains elusive, we’ve only deported 300k people, China is still allowed 600k students a year, all foreign worker pipelines are still operating at 110%, we are still funding warmongering foreigners and now bombing Venezuela to get access to the largest oil reserves in the world for the donors. That and the accelerated assembly of the biomedical security and total surveillance state as a result of playing footsie with Palantir. Meanwhile, no one has gone to jail, the FBI is even more corrupt, Epstein never trafficked anyone, and Americans are putting groceries on a credit card. No matter who you vote for you always get John Mcain because the people around the president are all the same.
Keep in mind it’s only 11 months in. Finding out about the snakes doesn’t happen in 2-3 months, especially amongst the inner cadre. The deck chairs will start getting rearranged after the holidays, I suspect.
Great point! 11 months is not a lot of time…but now we know. I certainly hope you are on to something with after the holidays…I can think of 5 who need to go right away.
I think the Venezuela Situation is more complex and intentional than just more OIL.
The OIL angle is such a left wing platitude.
Venezuela drug monies finance vote fraud here in the US and in other parts of the world.
Stop that money flow and more free and honest elections will occur.
NGOs will NOT get gobs of illicit monies to do their damage.
You could smell the fear last year during the DOGE /USAID kerfuffle.
See Elizabeth Nickson/SUBSTACK
See Jay Valentine Omega4America.com
And BTW,
Sydney Powell was absolutely correct about the Dominion Vote Fraud machines. (The ownership was Venezuela and many many other int’l cut outs, including Iran.
Her “conspiracy theory” will, like many other previous theories, eventually be proven to be FACT.
Watch the Venezuela/Arizona/Georgia operations closely.
Much more to come.
The machines have to go.
Ms. Wiles is obviously talented at managing a campaign, but running the White House Presidential staff is very different. It’s time for her to accept that and give notice of her resignation.
Susan Wiles looks like a fat liberal.
She’s catering to the liberal Vanity Fair and hoping to gain favor with the liberal establishment , so don’t excuse her by saying “she was taken out of context.”
She said PJDT has “an alcoholic’s personality.” She needs to be GONE.
She claims Bill Clinton never went to Epstein island when the flight log shows 22 visits.
She is not a conservative; she’s a Florida Bushie. Her resume is sparse for the title she holds.
He needs to say, “You’re fired?”
I have news for you–Wiles IS a fat liberal. She (and Blondi) is a Pfizer lobbyist.
This is all absolutely intentional, including the interviews. The snake in the grass poem is entirely relevant, except Ms. Wiles is the snake.
One is left aghast at the monstrous betrayal of Trump by someone purported to be a supporter. Of course, when looking for traitors in one’s midst, as French would say, “Cherchez la femme.” Moreover, despite being portrayed as someone familiar with the media’s duplicity and bias, she provided her “insights” for month after month. I would like to believe that this is part of some grand plan or strategy that will eventuate in Trump’s victory, but I simply can’t bring myself to do that.
Dems don’t need to take down PDJT, the One that has PDJT’s ear every day will do it for them.
And Vanity Fair of all pubs to talk to.
IMO
Wiles = Paul “Eddie Munster” Ryan
To explain her position? “Whoops!”
She sat down with them for the same reason that the administration sits down every Sunday morning with the enemy. Answer that one and you will answer both questions
Perhaps, but she clearly is not up to the task.
If you walk into the viper’s net, best to wear serious buckeye boots rather than open toe sandals.
I can’t think of a worse accusation to make of President Trump than accuse him of having an “alcoholic’s personality”. He specifically did not drink alcohol because his brother died of alcholism! This accusation has to be highly offense to our fine President! FIRE HER NOW!
Seriously–I think that comment is going to get her traitorous arse thrown out of the White House. She and the despicable MTG can go on tour together bashing PDJT.
In my opinion, this is a statement that would be introduced in impeachment hearings to declare he is not fit for office.
If President Trump does not see the danger of this woman’s actions and statements like these, I give up. Out of context Mr. President, I think not.
I read it as meaning he’s a workaholic, he obsesses over something until it is resolved.
Which explains the fact that he’s an overachiever.
So Ms Mouth could have used words like those: overachiever or workaholic. But she specifically chose not to use those words but to shove a knife in PDJT’s back.
There is a word for a workaholic. It’s “workaholic.” She didn’t use that word. Intentionally, I think.
Which has nothing to do with alcoholic personality!
a lot of people wonder why Trump picks/picked who he did/does 1/2 are Democrats or like Besseent are Soros, Susie ws supposed to be this crazed woman who wouldnt let anyone near DJT what happened w that? IF shes so tight w him, indeed why did she do an interview? I just dont undestand any of this Amin
It’s already a top-of-the-page story on BBC’s site and has already circled the world several times, being repeated by news organizations both large and small.
Susie can now hang up a sign, “Mission Accomplished.”
And this in midst of all eee uuu affairs and “peace” deals,
This woman should have been canned long ago. What’s with these folks that can’t keep their mouths shut while in the WH? Must be the massive egos. And I’m not talking about the President either. He’s the President. He can do what he damn well pleases.
Sssssssussssie Wilessss
You’re fired.
She goes to leftist media. Leftist media used interviews to make Trump and his administration look bad. She posts that her comments lacked context. Several staff come to her defense.
No Ms. Wiles. We’re onto your wily ways.
wily /wī′lē/
adjective
WOW! How sad our Government is. Politicians and Cabinet members, So full of themselves, so blinded by the lime light and power, instead of the one true light that will save them all, Christ.
Merry Christmas to all. Praying Trump can root out all these crazies, before it is to late!
blessings Kim
I think PDJT had 2 snakes in his inner circle, Sergio Gor and Susie Wiles. He replaced Gor with Scavino, no doubt Scavino can take over COS office completely as well.
Isn’t Miller deputy chief of staff? Get him in there.
Miller is White House advisor, Dan Scavino is Deputy COS.
Stephen Miller is Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy.
Dan was recently appointed to be Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office. For the last year he has also been a White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Investigation Appears To Be On The Brink Of Implicating Zelensky
No excuses. Never should have agreed to one interview. Yet she agreed to eleven. Stunning lapse of judgement. Even more stunning are her supposed recorded comments. In what universe did she think this was acceptable?
Wiles is the one who thought SHE could no wrong! She projected her own narcissism into her opinion of President Trump. Buh Bye Susie. When your suitcase is full of vanity, some of it is bound to tumble out.
Traitor! Conspirator!
Not that complicated.
Best case scenario this means she’s too stupid to keep the job. Worst case scenario she’s too much of a backstabber to keep the job. Either way, she’s gotta go. Hopefully to be replaced with Stephen Miller.
Was thinking today that haven’t seen/heard much of Dan Scavino lately, read awhile back he moved to a different position in WH staff.
Makes one wonder if he has been keeping an eye/ear on this??
He’s busy getting engaged. He still posts lots of good photos on Facebook, quietly in the background. Just promoted to head over all WH personnel hirings…firings?
Who cleared her to give the interviews? Who!?! And why isn’t there a contract that prohibits senior staff from meeting privately with a reporter without permission from the President? Drain the frggn swamp!
Who cleared her? PDJT?
Surely she was allowed her own ability to protect herself and record every time she met with a Vanity Fair reporter. She should have every single word and nuance spoken by both her and Vanity Fair’s representative recorded and now stored in her own and the White House safekeeping. If all this is a matter of cherry picking then she needs to present her own recordings and show all of the context leading up to the statements which she is saying Vanity Fair left out.
If it’s the case that every single sentence and “uhm” was recorded, there could be another nice fat libel suit waiting in the curtains off stage, like the 10$ billion BBC suit recently announced. One can hope.
Bye-bye Susie.
For maximum wallop, as well as defensive distraction, I would like to see Matt Gaetz take that over – even if only temporarily.
Gaetz should be interim AG when Bondi goes. He’d only have 120 days to a year but it’d be worth it.
That is why I said temporary. There would outrage no matter where he goes, or what he does.
So when someone utters a peep about him for the CoS position, PDJT can come out and tweet, “Oh you don’t like Matt as my Chief of Staff?
OK, then. I will put him in the AG position, then.
Really?
You’re ego is that big that you want to attend DC cocktail parties and feel this is the best way to do it?
Hard to believe she’s stupid enough to fall for this Dem trick…
I think “stupid” is not what we’re looking at.
It appears everyone else in the administration, except for her good friend Bondi who only made the teenie tiniest oopsie-doopsie, is a dysfunctional and unprincipled lout who is only able to do anything right at all because of Czarina Susie’s exceptional talents.
She should run in 2028. MAGA voters cannot wait to demonstrate their assessment of her opinions of herself.
Revenge of the nerds. In this case, revenge of the dumpy. Always behind the scenes, now finally, FINALLY, a chance to “shine”.
And Vanity Fair as the instrument? So perfect.
Regardless, she’s in Trump’s spotlight now. He may tolerate incompetence, but he doesn’t tolerate disloyalty. Especially on such public display.
She’ll be gone soon. So yes, perfect.
BTW, saying Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality” was a targeted dig. Trump, famously a teetotaler, has always been honest about his brother’s struggles, and eventual death, from alcoholism.
There’s no walking that one back.
Yep, that is over the line, I have a hard time thinking PDJT is going to let that one slide.
I’m sure she probably knew already to be wary, but to be safe, elementary thinking would be to do 1 interview and have them do small piece. Then if that’s good, do another small one. But not 11 months worth. Of course shouldn’t have done it all.
Done it at all.
She has to have done it deliberately and her excuses are just lame. No upside to sitting down with Vanity Fair at all. How the hell did Trump ever hire this idiot?
Outstanding investigative reporting, Sundance! And I find it highly implausable that Ms. Wiles never heard DJT recite the Snake Poem… it’s a favorite of his and he spoke it often during his campaigns.
Sad that Wiles is turning out to be the snake….
I don’t recall ever hearing from her this year. Now we get a dump.
Getting rid of her will be a good thing for us all. She is part of the problem on the “retribution” piece. We want accountability not retribution.
Someone in that position knows there is always some watching in the casino (pun intended see Susie and Sheldon’s widow). You would never, ever sit down with anyone.
Except WH council for anything including drapery selections.
B Be Gone.
Who is in the bullpen?
IMO! Pam, Susie and Kash need to be replaced ASAP.
Wow. She needs to be gone yesterday.
Sigh, well you have to know that a book will come out all about members in the administration written by Susie Wiles herself. Of course Susie has been the saint lookin on in disapproval of all presidential actions that went against her recommendations. Something tells me that her judgement is very biased against her own father and these issues are clouding her actions. Its going to be a very tough road through the next few years when the choice is between her and other members around the presidents administration. I say lets give Stephen Miller the promotion and let him handle these sort of matters and place Susie doing the mundane chores like scheduling state visit requests from foreign countries for the President 😛
This bite is poisonous…someone needs to get the [Antivenom]
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Monica Crowley already has the position of arranging foreign visits and events – and doing a fine job too!
It is truly unbelievable that Ms. Wiles thought even 1 interview with Vanity Fair would be okay, but 11, on tape… that is subversion. She should be ejected from the WH and far away from President Trump AND she must sign a legal document enjoining her from discussing anything during her tenure at the WH.
I am so angry at this one. It is a massive betrayal.
Wow! What was Ms. Wiles thinking? Clearly she was not. If all that is said is true…, Then it’s time to cut her loose. There’s so much more that needs to be positively accomplished without an idiots subterfuge.
Probably the author of the Reiner truth.
Just goes to show who’s running the show……
The name that can’t be named.