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re: Susie Wiles: A disingenuously framed hit piece on me, the finest President, WH cabinet

Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:56 am to
Posted by jlnoles79
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:56 am to
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he admin all see it as a hit piece.


Yeah, they weren't told by the White House to post their support

She sat down and did 11 interviews with them
Posted by Tiger985
Member since Nov 2006
7491 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 11:57 am to
It's like Trump and his people haven't learned anything since 2015.

The legacy establishment media is NEVER going to do a puff piece on anything related to Trump world. Never, ever, ever.

I don't see how people can be so dumb as to fall for this over and over.

Is Trump going to do another 30 hours with Bob Woodward or Maureen Dowd?

It's bizarre.
Posted by LSUgrad88
Member since Jun 2009
8443 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:19 pm to
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That is a def hit piece


This isn’t hard. Did she say the things she’s quoted as saying? She certainly hasn’t denied saying these things. There purportedly are recordings of all of this. She goes simply to the tried and true “taken out of context” bs. The only real mystery is what her end game was in doing this now. Like her or not, she is an extremely savvy woman.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 12:23 pm
Posted by SirWinston
PNW
Member since Jul 2014
101930 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:25 pm to
When will the Trump administration learn to stop giving access to MSM?
Posted by Free888
Member since Oct 2019
2931 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:30 pm to
If they’re dumb enough to sit down with these publications, they deserve the fallout. They should have known better.
Posted by retired_tiger
Member since Oct 2025
546 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:31 pm to
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the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history

Posted by SallysHuman
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Member since Jan 2025
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:34 pm to
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Maybe give us some examples of presidents this century who have done more. Be specific.


I know one who beat medicare... so there's that.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:35 pm to
Mark Halperin saying the rumors of Susie's exit are most likely false.. scroll the video to the middle.

Twitter Link
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:35 pm to
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
162989 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:37 pm to
is Candy still quiet? page me when she has a show.
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
52585 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:37 pm to
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Maybe give us some examples of presidents this century who have done more. Be specific.

I’ll be specific since you won’t be. The quote was…
quote:

The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other President has accomplished in eight years

it didn’t specify this century.

So, Ronald Reagan, LBJ, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, just for a start.
Posted by SallysHuman
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:38 pm to
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is Candy still quiet? page me when she has a show.


I don't follow her but I'm sure she's out there saying something.
Posted by RelicBatches86
Florida
Member since Nov 2024
1078 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:43 pm to
Reading this article.. jesus she really stepped in it she criticized alot of people.

i'd be shocked if she doesnt quietly resign in a few months

LINK


The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, delivered a series of unusually candid and at times unflattering assessments of President Donald Trump, his second-term agenda and some of his closest allies in a series of wide-ranging interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.

Across more than 10 interviews, Wiles spoke frankly about working for Trump, saying the president “has an alcoholic’s personality,” despite being known as a teetotaler. She acknowledged the president’s appetite for revenge, conceding many of his second-term actions were driven by a desire for retribution. Wiles suggested Trump was pursuing regime change in Venezuela through his boat-bombing campaign, contradicting official justifications for the strikes. And she described several controversial areas where the president ignored her advice, including on deportations and pardons.

Wiles also acknowledged that Trump did not have evidence to support his accusation that former President Bill Clinton visited the private island of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“There is no evidence,” Wiles said of Clinton’s alleged visits. When Vanity Fair asked whether there was anything incriminating about Clinton in the Epstein files, she reportedly added, “The president was wrong about that.”

Wiles offered unflattering assessments of several of the president’s closest allies in the interviews. Of Vice President JD Vance, she said he has “been a conspiracy theorist for a decade,” and suggested his evolution from Trump critic to loyal ally was “sort of political.”

Vance acknowledged during a speech in Pennsylvania later Tuesday that he “sometimes” is a conspiracy theorist, but that he believes only “in the conspiracy theories that are true.” He defended Wiles, despite what he said were occasional disagreements.

“We agree on much more than we disagree,” he said. “But I’ve never seen her be disloyal to the president of the United States, and that makes her the best White House chief of staff that I think the president could ask for.”

On tech billionaire and former Trump ally Elon Musk, Wiles said he is “an avowed ketamine” user and “an odd, odd duck, as I think geniuses are.” His action to dismantle the US Agency for International Development, however, left her “aghast.”

Turning to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Wiles said she “completely whiffed” in her handling of the Epstein files.

Wiles said Trump governs with “a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”

“High-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink,” she said. “And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.” The article notes she grew up with an alcoholic father — the legendary sportscaster Pat Summerall.

In the interviews, Wiles notably admitted there “may be an element of” retribution in the prosecutions against Trump’s political opponents.

“I mean, people could think it does look vindictive,” she said in response to a question about the failed prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey. “I can’t tell you why you shouldn’t think that.”


“I don’t think he wakes up thinking about retribution. But when there’s an opportunity, he will go for it,” she added.



When asked about the mortgage fraud accusations against New York Attorney General Letitia James, she replied, “Well, that might be the one retribution.”




In another striking comment, Wiles described Russell Vought, a co-author of conservative blueprint Project 2025 and head of the Office of Management and Budget, as “a right-wing absolute zealot.” (Vought later wrote on X that Wiles is his “ally” and an “exceptional” chief of staff.)

Wiles also expressed policy reservations throughout the interviews. On deportations, she said the administration needed to “look harder” to avoid mistakes. On Venezuela, she said the president “wants to keep on blowing boats up until [President Nicolás] Maduro cries uncle,” adding, “and people way smarter than me on that say that he will.” She acknowledged that Trump would need congressional authorization to carry out strikes in Venezuela that he has been saying will come “soon.”



Wiles said she urged Trump not to pardon the most violent rioters from January 6, 2021, advice he ultimately ignored, and said she unsuccessfully pushed him to delay announcing major tariffs amid what she described as a “huge disagreement” among his advisers.

She also acknowledged she wants the president to focus more on the economy and less on Saudi Arabia, and weighed in on potential successors, distinguishing how figures such as Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio came to support Trump after initially opposing him.

After the interviews published Tuesday morning, White House aides, advisers and allies of Trump were reeling at some of the brutally honest assessments.

“It’s in every group chat,” one Trump ally told CNN, adding, “Everyone is shocked and confused.

“Yikes,” a senior White House adviser said of the interview.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 12:46 pm
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
86131 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:48 pm to
I'm a loss on this

How is it possible she's that dumb, or if she had other motives, what could they possibly be?
Posted by SallysHuman
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Member since Jan 2025
15119 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:49 pm to
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Reading this article.. jesus she really stepped in it she criticized alot of people.


Holy moly... the bits you posted are awful- wtf was she thinking??

Who needs enemies with friends like that?

That alcoholic personality bit would seriously piss me off were I a teetotaler with his family history.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
162989 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:49 pm to
yeah, CNN has the inside of the admins group chats. anonymous sauces say.
Posted by boosiebadazz
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:50 pm to
It’s fricking refreshing what it is. We finally found the adult in the room.
Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
15119 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:50 pm to
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How is it possible she's that dumb, or if she had other motives, what could they possibly be?


Maybe she fancies herself as the great wise one, the adult in the room- above it all.

eta, and there we have it, "It’s fricking refreshing what it is. We finally found the adult in the room."


Even if you have private reservations on Trump's tactics, or of the rest of the team, you don't air out the dirty laundry. Selfish woman.
This post was edited on 12/16/25 at 12:52 pm
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
86131 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:53 pm to
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It’s fricking refreshing what it is. We finally found the adult in the room.


I don't think going to a batshit lefty publication and talking about your boss and his allies is "adult in the room" stuff.

It may be refreshing, and I'm sure a lot of it is true.

Although a lot of it reeks of silly GOPe caricatures - Vance, Russ, etc.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
86387 posts
Posted on 12/16/25 at 12:54 pm to
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Oh lord.


It’s the truth.

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