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Trump, Wiles had deal to end score settling
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in a new interview said that she and President Trump had a “loose agreement” to move on from “score settling” after the first 90 days of his second term, but acknowledged that his attacks against his opponents may “look like retribution” in some cases.
Wiles’ comments came in a Vanity Fair story by author Chris Whi
Trump’s chief of staff drops unreal truth bomb: ‘Alcoholic’s personality’
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has described teetotal Donald Trump as someone with an “alcoholic’s personality.”
Wiles, the usually media-shy White House official whom Trump refers to as the “Ice Maiden,” made the remark during a lengthy profile in Vanity Fair.
The top Trump ally said she recognized aspects of Trump’s boisterous personality from her alcoholic father, who died in 2013 after being sober for 21 years.
“Some clinical psychologist who knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say,” Wiles said. “But high-functioning alcoholics, or alcoholics in general, have exaggerated personalities when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.”
She added that Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality” and “operates with a view that there’s nothing he can’t do—nothing, zero, nothing.
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White House chief of staff Susie Wiles harshly criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi for her initial response to calls to release information on the Jeffrey Epstein case, saying in an interview published Tuesday that the head of the Justice Department “completely whiffed.”
According to Wiles, “the people that really appreciated what a big deal this is are” FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino.
“They lived in that world,” she said, “and the vice president [JD Vance], who’s been a conspiracy theorist for a decade … For years, Kash has been saying, ‘Got to release the files, got to release the files.’ And he’s been saying that with a view of what he thought was in these files that turns out not to be right.”
Months later, on July 6, the FBI and DOJ released a joint memo concluding that Epstein did not keep a roster of rich and powerful friends who abused girls as young as 14 years old — contrary to public speculation.
Days later, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche traveled to Florida to meet with Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking conspiracy and other charges.
Wiles told Vanity Fair that the sitdown with Maxwell was Blanche’s idea — and insisted that neither she nor President Trump was consulted about the subsequent transfer of Epstein’s madam to a medium-security Texas prison camp.
“The president was ticked,” she said. “The president was mighty unhappy. I don’t know why they moved her. Neither does the president.”
Wiles made the pointed comments to author Chris Whipple in one of 11 interviews throughout Trump’s first year of his second term.
