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The White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, delivered a series of unusually candid and at times unflattering assessments of Donald Trump, his second-term agenda and some of his closest allies in a series of wide-ranging interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.

Across more than 10 interviews, Wiles spoke frankly about working for Trump, saying the president “has an alcoholic’s personality,” despite being known as a teetotaler.

She acknowledged the president’s appetite for revenge, conceding many of his second-term actions were driven by a desire for retribution.

Wiles suggested Trump was pursuing regime change in Venezuela through his boat-bombing campaign, contradicting official justifications for the strikes. And she described several controversial areas where the president ignored her advice, including on deportations and pardons.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is from the original article. She is a POS and helped kill millions of people. Is she seeing the writing on the wall and trying to get a job for someone else? She's not dumb, just evil.

It’s been a busy year. Trump and his team have expanded the limits of presidential power, unilaterally declared war on drug cartels, imposed tariffs according to whim, sealed the southern border, achieved a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza, and pressured NATO allies into increasing their defense spending.

“Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities.” Wiles said Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality.” He “operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”

The shuttering of USAID crippled the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The antiretroviral program, launched with $15 billion by George W. Bush in 2003, was credited with preventing millions of deaths. It depended on USAID grants. In an interview with The Financial Times, Bill Gates remarked: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”

Edit: She helped pick these evil, fucked up, stupid people. She is evil herself. Thank you Vanity Fair for publishing this:

For Trump, Wiles has helped pick a Cabinet of MAGA hard-liners: Pete Hegseth, secretary of war (formerly defense); Kash Patel, FBI director; John Ratcliffe, CIA director; Pam Bondi, attorney general; Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence; and Kristi Noem, head of Homeland Security. Wiles calls them “a world-class Cabinet, better than anything I could have conceived of.” Trump’s Cabinet members are either one of the least qualified presidential teams in history or, to hear Wiles tell it, disrupters—the only people with the balls to take on an entrenched deep state.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

They also know they're deporting US citizens and they're kind of just oopsies:

Not long after the El Salvador deportation fiasco, in Louisiana, ICE agents arrested and deported two mothers, along with their children, ages seven, four, and two, to Honduras. The children were US citizens and the four-year-old was being treated for stage 4 cancer. Wiles couldn’t explain it. “It could be an overzealous Border Patrol agent, I don’t know,” she said of the case, in which both mothers had reportedly been arrested after voluntarily attending routine immigration meetings. “I can’t understand how you make that mistake, but somebody did.”

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

She looks like that lady from Harry Potter

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ex-chief of staff in 3, 2, ...

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

No, he likes her. She'll just scoff, and tell him it's fake news, and he'll buy it. He's an idiot, and she knows how to work him.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

I fucking hope so, the article is saying that she gets his agendas done.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago

If my boss made corruption, retribution and personal revenge the main driver of his policy decisions, I would not gleefully continue as his employee while making excuses for his abusive practices because I'm not a complete piece of shit.

[–] chromeleon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Shut up, piggy.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Just the other day I was thinking about how rare it is to hear from her. Which is really bizarre she's the chief of staff. That's a position some people refer to as the co-president. That's how powerful it is. Yet we so rarely hear from her. I'm not sure if it's just because she's good at keeping her head down and nose clean or if Trump is so easy to manipulate that others have so much more power than a normal Administration. Or some combination of the two.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does he listen to her about anything? It sounds like she's disagreed on every single major decision.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Sounds like in puff pieces after the fact maybe.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

🍿 Let the monsters fight each other

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Her name is Wiles? [suspicious look]