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Blumenthal Says Susie Wiles Is Positioning Herself Away From Trump After Candid Vanity Fair Interviews

The ex-Clinton adviser casts the recorded interviews as self-protection, with the White House still backing her.

Overview

  • In a Guardian op-ed published Tuesday, Sidney Blumenthal portrays the chief of staff as an enabler who is also trying to distance herself from the president.
  • He suggests her months of on-the-record conversations with Vanity Fair could be seen as retribution and recounts her allegedly leaving a Trump meeting to see the reporter.
  • The Vanity Fair profile quotes Wiles describing Trump as having an alcoholic’s personality and believing there is nothing he cannot do.
  • Wiles also criticizes Vice President J.D. Vance as a long-time conspiracy theorist and describes Elon Musk as an avowed ketamine user and an odd, odd duck.
  • Wiles denies being an enabler, and reporting notes Trump has said he trusts her with no resulting change in her position.