Overview
- Vanity Fair published a multi-part profile drawn from roughly 11 interviews with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and other officials, released Tuesday.
- Wiles said President Donald Trump has the “personality of an alcoholic” and operates with the belief that there is nothing he cannot do.
- She criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Epstein files, said there is no “client list,” and noted Trump appears in the records without incriminating conduct while saying there is no evidence Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s island.
- Wiles characterized Vice President J.D. Vance as a “conspiracy theorist” and described Elon Musk as a declared ketamine user who slept in a sleeping bag in the Executive Office Building.
- After publication, Wiles called the coverage malicious and lacking context but did not deny the quotes, the White House publicly backed her, a DOJ deadline to release Epstein documents falls this week, and Congress is examining ongoing U.S. strikes near Venezuela that she said Trump wants to continue until Nicolás Maduro “surrenders.”