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Yesterday — 17 December 2025Main stream

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

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.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

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

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.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

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

FBI Director Kash Patel, Eager for Spotlight, Casts Aside Caution in Social Media Posts

Kash Patel’s impulse to publicize the work of the bureau under his leadership has revived questions about his competence and his future in the administration.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

Even if Trump officials have privately criticized Mr. Patel, particularly over his use of government assets, rumors about his firing or forced resignation have yet to materialize.
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