Vanity Fair’s two-part chronicle of interviews with Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s heretofore tight-lipped and uber-credible White House chief of staff, is a Christmas and Hanukkah gift to the nation in this holiday season. Wiles slammed Vanity Fair’s work as a “hit piece” in a social media post, but she identified no factual errors among her real-time disclosures. (“When there’s an opportunity, he will go for it.”)Against Wiles’ advice, Trump insisted on granting clemency to even the most violent convicted cop-beaters among the Jan. 6 rioters. Wiles explicitly doesn’t see her role as constraining Trump, no matter how “aghast” she is about one thing or another. May the losses continue, and with them a humbling of the malevolent man in the White House.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 22, 2025 22:17 UTC