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Overview
- Vanity Fair published excerpts from 11 interviews with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles conducted during President Trump’s first year back in office, detailing internal disputes over pardons, tariffs and USAID.
- Wiles is quoted describing Trump as having a “personality of an alcoholic,” saying he seizes chances for payback, and labeling Vice President J.D. Vance a conspiracy theorist for about a decade.
- Wiles responded on X that the piece was defamatory and stripped of context, arguing it omitted positive remarks about the president and his team.
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Vice President Vance and Trump publicly backed Wiles, with Trump saying he was not offended and questioning the article’s accuracy.
- Opponents, including New York Attorney General Letitia James and her counsel, pointed to the remarks to allege the administration is using federal power for retaliation.