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Yesterday — 17 December 2025Main stream

Trump and Top Aides Publicly Defend Susie Wiles After Explosive Interviews

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Tyler Pager
17 December 2025 at 03:27
President Trump praised his chief of staff as doing “a fantastic job,” and more than a dozen members of his cabinet have posted defenses of her on social media.

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Susie Wiles criticized the article as a “disingenuously framed hit piece” but did not deny the authenticity of the quotes.

Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Vanity Fair Interviews Describing Trump World

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Peter Baker
17 December 2025 at 01:10
During 11 interviews with Vanity Fair over President Trump’s first year back in office, Ms. Wiles, his chief of staff, opened up about the president, the people around him and their internal fights.

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Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, typically shuns publicity. She called a recent article in Vanity Fair, based on 11 interviews she gave over the past year, “a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”
Before yesterdayMain stream

Susie Wiles Acknowledges Trump’s ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Peter Baker
17 December 2025 at 00:56
In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said President Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files.

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Over the course of 11 interviews, Ms. Wiles offered pungent assessments of the president and his team.
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