UPDATE: This interview with the Vanity Fair reporter just dropped and it actuall…


UPDATE: This interview with the Vanity Fair reporter just dropped and it actually tells a very different story: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5647310/vanity-fair-reporter-gets-an-inside-view-from-susie-wiles-the-woman-behind-trump-2-0

The most surprising thing about Whitehouse Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’ super-revealing interviews just released by Vanity Fair, and talked about across the Internet, is that nobody is surprised. Although it is mildly surprising that she hasn’t been fired. After all, she *did* acknowledge that Trump uses the DOJ “score settling,” called Russell Vought “a right-wing absolute zealot,” and said that Vance is “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” (Be sure to see my question at the end.)

The Times explains: “She spoke candidly about the challenges of managing a volatile boss, the battles she had lost and the curious collection of people surrounding him.”

Then, in response to Vanity Fair’s articles, “Ms. Wiles went on social media after the story was published to call it “a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.” She took no issue with any of the facts in the article, but said only that “significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story.”

Given the above, could it be that Ms. Wiles’ is in fact about to go down as a hero, having given everyone enough to finally *do something* about this Article II, Section 4 and/or 25th Amendment waiting to happen?

Or, at least equally likely, is this a well-planned hit/not hit piece intended to put it all in the open and *still* have everyone say “so what?” so that Trump et al can protest in the future that “We told you all about it, you knew it, and you accepted it, so no harm no foul?”



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10 comments

  • Drew Annol

    Could it be that she fears for her life after the details came out?

  • Jenny Ferguson

    I believe it’s all been planned for the spin factor. Dec. 19 is fast approaching, after all. And a bad distraction is as good as any given what he’s up against!!

  • Marc Freislinger

    The doj politicization is not news. He accidentally tweeted his directives to Pam Bondi publicly.

    If he wasn’t impeached for that, I don’t think her statements are going to matter.

  • Kim Peters Brill

    This may have been softening the ground for future terminations.

  • Seanna Colleen

    Exactly. This isn’t ‘gotcha’ journalism. Follow the money.

  • Ewen Allison

    Random thought: that no one is too surprised is a strong showing that the Fourth Estate is doing its job.

  • Kaytee B. Goode

    Last night, Scott Jennings, with all his smarmy smugness said he that’s what he wanted to hear, that Vought was a right wing zealot. (He’s a religious zealot though…. which is much worse.) I believe there was more strategy on both sides of this story than can initially be seen, between the ‘candid’ interview and the photos.

  • Christian Mark Wilson

    I am continuously amazed by the staggering incompetence of this regime (and while it is cruel and hateful, I am grateful they are not capable individuals). There is nothing new here. They relish their own ineptitude. This will be celebrated as an achievement.

  • Teena Hunt

    You never know with these types of people. Maybe she secretly has had enough and wants to get fired. I won’t bet on it though with her turnabout “that’s not what I said” reaction to the article that was actually published.

  • Melissa Suzanne

    Wiles is clearing a path for her favorite: Rubio. Wouldn’t even be surprised if he made her his VP. To be continued. 😉

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