In candid interviews with Vainness Honest, White Home chief of employees Susie Wiles opened up about President Donald Trump and his Cupboard over the primary 12 months of Trump’s second time period.
Wiles took half in 11 interviews that occurred in actual time. Two components of these interviews have been printed on Tuesday.
In them, Wiles supplied unreserved descriptions of prime figures within the administration — together with Trump, who she mentioned has an “alcoholic’s character.”
Wiles mentioned Trump, who has repeatedly mentioned he does not drink alcohol, mentioned he “operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”
She referred to as Vice President JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist for a decade” and White Home Workplace of Administration and Finances Director Russell Vought “a right-wing absolute zealot.” Billionaire Elon Musk, she mentioned, was an “odd duck” and “avowed ketamine [user].”
Wiles additionally weighed in on Legal professional Common Pam Bondi’s dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein information, Musk’s slashing of federal authorities companies and applications, the chaotic rollout of Trump’s tariff plans, the administration’s goals for Venezuela and extra.
Wiles, responding to Vainness Honest’s articles, mentioned it’s a “disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the best President, White Home employees, and Cupboard in historical past.”
White Home chief of employees Susie Wiles listens as President Donald Trump meets with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington.
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“The reality is the Trump White Home has already achieved extra in eleven months than some other President has achieved in eight years and that’s because of the unmatched management and imaginative and prescient of President Trump, for whom I’ve been honored to work for the higher a part of a decade,” Wiles wrote on X.
“Vital context was disregarded and far of what I, and others, mentioned concerning the crew and the President was unnoticed of the story. I assume, after studying it, that this was finished to color an overwhelmingly chaotic and adverse narrative concerning the President and our crew,” Wiles added.
ABC Information has reached out to Condé Nast, Vainness Honest’s guardian firm, for touch upon Wiles’ criticism.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Wiles on X.
“Chief of Workers Susie Wiles has helped President Trump obtain essentially the most profitable first 11 months in workplace of any President in American historical past. President Trump has no larger or extra loyal advisor than Susie. The whole Administration is grateful for her regular management and united absolutely behind her,” Leavitt wrote in a submit responding to Wiles’ criticism of the articles.
Trump, Bondi and Musk haven’t publicly responded to the Vainness Honest articles.
Vance, at an occasion Tuesday in Pennsylvania, mentioned he hadn’t learn the Vainness Honest article however responded to Wiles’ comment that he is been a “conspiracy theorist for the previous decade.” Wiles made the touch upon Vance whereas discussing the Epstein information.
“I have not appeared on the article. I, in fact, have heard about it. However conspiracy theorist, generally I’m a conspiracy theorist however I solely consider within the conspiracy theories which are true,” Vance advised reporters.
“And by the way in which, Susie and I’ve joked in non-public and in public about that for a very long time,” he added.
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