Erickson: Wiles & Trump knew what they were doing w/Interview

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the Susie Wiles interview just continues to pay spectacular dividends. It is wild to watch the situation play out. I want to be real clear here with you. Uh, Susie Wiles is a consummate political insider. She knew what she was doing giving 11 recorded interviews with Vanity Fair.

Don’t believe the idea it’s a hit job. They can certainly take some of the snippier things she said out of context to try to blow them up in a scandal when she was just making passive comments on the situation. But here’s what really happened.

The president of the United States and his chief of staff are trying to reset the tables inside the White House. Some of some of the people riding too high in the saddle and they’re being taken down a peg by the White House chief of staff and some very frank comments about a broad swath of the White House. The result being, of course, that the president has come out and defended her and actually embraced her comments about him being like an alcoholic. He admitting he says the same thing about himself, so he’s not offended by it. Much of the cabinet circling the wagons around Susie Wiles as well. They all actually do really respect her and like the job she’s doing, as a matter of fact. So, it’s not really a defensive play on their part. They actually really do support her, recognizing her competence in the White House and how she has managed Donald Trump and allowed him to do things that prior chiefs of staff refrained or restrained him from doing. Whether you like that or not, they like it inside the White House. But let’s be real clear here.

You don’t do 11 interviews with a mainstream media publication that leans to the left and have those interviews recorded unless you know what you’re doing. And what you’re doing is you’re resetting the tables and taking people down a peg inside the White House whose egos have gotten too big. And then of course you trot out your non-denial denials of everything being taken out of context when it was all recorded and you all know it. That’s the drama behind the scenes. That’s the meta story that you need to pay attention to.

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