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The real reason Susie Wiles talked to me 11 times
Her unguarded remarks reveal a lot about the Trump White House.
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Ms Susie Wiles’ remarks raised many questions about the Trump White House.
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Chris Whipple
I don’t think it’s immodest of me to say that the interviews I did with Ms Susie Wiles that appeared in articles in Vanity Fair – in which President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff described him as having an “alcoholic’s personality” and called Vice-President J.D. Vance “a conspiracy theorist for a decade” – set off a political tempest.
Mr Trump’s top advisers leaped to Ms Wiles’ defence, and she called the story a “disingenuously framed hit piece”. But after she initially denied having made certain remarks about billionaire Elon Musk (only to be told they were on tape), neither Ms Wiles nor anyone else in the White House challenged the article’s accuracy.
