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susie wiles insight


although publicity-shy, wiles is still a MAGA zealot.
the only thing that surprises me is how fast the gop has already dismissed these comments.


- Wiles said she has read the Epstein documents and acknowledged that Trump’s name is in them.

- Wiles said she urged Trump NOT to pardon the most violent January 6 rioters. He ignored her advice.

- She admitted Trump is looking for retribution...“when there’s an opportunity, he will go for it.”

- She tried to convince Trump to stop “score-settling” against political enemies after 90 days in office. That effort failed because Trump’s desire for retribution never stopped.

- Wiles directly contradicted Trump’s claims about Bill Clinton, stating there is “no evidence” Clinton ever visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.

- She described Trump as having “an alcoholic’s personality.” Wiles said her ability to work with him comes from growing up with an alcoholic father, the sportscaster Pat Summerall.

- On Vice President JD Vance, Wiles said he has “been a conspiracy theorist for a decade,” and that his conversion from Trump critic to loyalist was political, driven by his Senate ambitions rather than principle.

- She described Elon Musk as “an avowed ketamine user,” “an odd, odd duck,” whose actions were often not “rational” and left her “aghast.”

- She called budget director Russell T. Vought a “right-wing absolute zealot.”

- Wiles defended USAID, saying that “anyone who has paid attention to government knows they do very good work.”

- She said Attorney General Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the handling of the Epstein files, explaining:
“First she gave binders full of nothingness. Then she claimed the witness list or client list was on her desk. There is no client list — and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk.”

- She said the administration needed to “look harder” at deportations to avoid mistakes.

- Referring to two mothers who were arrested and deported with their children after voluntarily attending routine immigration meetings, Wiles said:
“I can’t understand how you make that mistake — but somebody did.”

- She tried unsuccessfully to get Trump to delay major tariffs, citing a “huge disagreement” among his advisers.

- Wiles summed up Trump’s governing mindset this way:
He operates with a belief that there is nothing he can’t do. Nothing. Zero. Nothing.


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source , if in doubt :
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2000938794946543908

Comments

  • We should start a pool to guess how long she will remain employed by Trump.
  • Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”:
    The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2)
    https://archive.ph/ChGZu

    Susie Wiles Talks Epstein Files, Pete Hegseth’s War Tactics, Retribution, and More (Part 2 of 2)
    https://archive.ph/1rprH
  • I'll take 7 days... where do I send my $5 ?
  • Start at 7:49 re: S. Wiles.
  • edited December 19
    This guy is absolutely miserable. And has done it to himself. He will spend his last days in misery that he brought upon himself. All that he had to do was walk away after his first term and return the classified documents.

    He desperately wants to be loved and admired, that is very obvious. And he must know that he is universally hated, with the exception of those who are using him. And those who he has used.

    When an avowed maga supporter says the things that Wiles says, you can bet it is far worse than many realize. She may actually be paving the way to be fired, and distancing herself purposely. I'd assume that many in his inner circle are like the dog that caught the car. His family is clearly avoiding him, and will never wash themselves of his failures and actions. They will all be pariahs in respectable social circles. Most of them deeply deserve it.

    His supporters that were hoping for "relief", and more opportunity, are getting savaged, along with everyone else. many will never acknowledge how they shot themselves in both feet.
  • edited December 19
    Bret Louis Stephens is an American right-wing columnist. He has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a senior contributor to NBC News since 2017. Since 2021, he has been the inaugural editor-in-chief of SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations.¹
    "Though I tend to think it’s usually a waste of space to devote a column to President Donald Trump’s personality — what more is there to say about the character of this petty, hollow, squalid, overstuffed man? — sometimes the point bears stressing: We are led by the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House.

    Right now,
    - in every grotesque social media post;

    - in every Cabinet meeting devoted, North Korea-like, to adulating him;

    - in every executive-order-signing ceremony intended to make him appear
        like a Chinese emperor;

    - in every fawning reference to all the peace he’s supposedly brought the world;

    - in every Neronic enlargement of the White House’s East Wing;

    - in every classless dig at his predecessor;

    - in every shady deal his family is striking to enrich itself;

    - in every White House gathering of tech billionaires paying him court
        (in the literal senses of both “pay” and “court”);

    - in every visiting foreign leader who learns to abase himself to avoid some capricious
        tariff or other punishment —

    - in all this and more, our standards as a nation are being debased,
        our manners barbarized."

    ¹ From Wickipedia

    Comment: and this travesty of a man is a hero to @FD1000. Which tells us all that we need to know about him too, and his "concern" for OUR country, which he has used to effectuate his own enrichment.
  • Old_Joe said:

    Comment: and this travesty of a man is a hero to @FD1000. Which tells us all that we need to know about him too, and his "concern" for OUR country, which he has used to effectuate his own enrichment.

    OUCH!

  • edited December 19
    A cogent point. Those who are most vocal about their allegiance, are digging their own hole. Many will never say anything to them directly, but never see them the same way again.

    Like people that escape weird religions and cults are always viewed with suspicion, like they are just one small step away from a relapse. Like alcoholics.

    Even exaggerated patriotism, is often associated with extremism. And a sign of fascist leanings. Look at DPRK or Myanmar or any of the military regimes.



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