"President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, rarely speaks out, but a year's worth of on-the-record conversations dropped Tuesday in a blockbuster Vanity Fair profile that has rocked the White House. From tariffs, to war powers, to Epstein, to revenge prosecutions and Trump's psychology, Wiles's candor amounts to one of the most unvarnished insider accounts of Trump's second term yet."
""So much thinking out loud is what I would call it," she told Vanity Fair of the announcements, confirming: "There was a huge disagreement over whether [tariffs were] a good idea. Rather than slow Trump down, Wiles shared how she instructed aides to fall in line: I said, This is where we're going to end up. So figure out how you can work into what he's already thinking.' Well, they couldn't get there."
Susie Wiles provided extensive on-the-record observations that reveal internal disagreement and improvisation around major policy moves, including tariff announcements driven by presidential instinct rather than settled strategy. She described instructing aides to align with the president's thinking, yet staff struggled to do so. Wiles labeled and ranked colleagues bluntly while defending them as world-class, and she noted political conversions and controversial pasts among officials. She vocally rejected the framing of critical coverage as disingenuous, and conflicting public denials were countered by released audio evidence. The disclosures encompass tariffs, war powers, Epstein, alleged revenge prosecutions, and insights into presidential psychology.
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