Whatever Wiles thought she was revealing, her self-exposure is revolting. I'm surprised it could be reduced to five worst. Something in the retribution section that jumped out at me: Wiles justified Trump going after AG Tish James this way: "She had a half a billion dollars of his money.” The twisted playground illogic smirking at a spurious charge against the prosecutor who proved Trump a fraud is morally and legally bankrupt. But worse: In that casual framing Wiles characterized a $500 million civil court judgement against Trump's business fraud (in which he avoided hundreds of millions of dollars in interest payments by his false evaluations) as some kind of personal shake-down by James. Falsely characterizing legal penalties as though they are pocketed by the prosecution would be laughable if there weren't millions of suckers in this country ready to believe it.
It looks to me that the crew of the Pirate ship is worried about the Captain and their link to the Gravy Train! Remember one truism in the world of Trump: "follow the money." Let's not forget that first, Susie chose to be his personal defense attorney and collected some undisclosed loot for that failed multiyear exercise. That process exposed her to the truth of Trump's sins and crimes during the "discovery phase" in a couple of those cases. Trump and Susie both know why Trump wants her to be close. As correctly shown in this post, she is not a patriotic person. Let's not get distracted by her attempt to share some "truth." All she is doing is reacting to her lizard brain screaming that she needs to do something to distance herself from the Pirate Captain while maintaining her connection to the gravy train that the Pirate Captain controls.
That she learned that self-defense response from her alcoholic father is personally sad because I used to respect him as a sports announcer. Seeing the product of his parenting betraying the American people makes me very sad.
She sounds like another truly awful human being sucked into this administration. I am glad she says her prayers every night so she can go to work the next day and condone direct murder on the high seas and indirect murder through the disruption of overseas aid and yanking healthcare from millions. Her other christian endeavors included supporting the abuse and arrest of immigrants (legal and undocumented) and support for a convicted sex offender, implacable liar, and inconceivably corrupt person. I despair at the rot inside our government. Will we ever find our way back to decency?
She seems like the dumbest dodo of all of them. Ignorant of everything, criminally incurious, enabling of at least one drunk (even if an alcoholic does not imbibe — and we only have donnie’s word for it that he does not — s/he still has all the destructive behaviours) and assorted drug addicts, a stupid gullible mark for the most heinous con man in history, limitlessly greedy for ‘relevance’, besotted with her own empty ‘power’’, … She’s just a shallow female version of a nasty old FL man.
Wiles is trying to have it both ways. She will continue enabling Trump but is trying to create plausible deniability so history and the courts won’t judge her too harshly.
The entire thing is a weird read and a weird response. Is she the pantsuited, Thatcher-haired reincarnation of Thomas Cromwell? or is she just a standard-issue workplace gossip with the nuance of Godzilla? And why was everyone she threw under the bus, over so many salads, so sanguine about it? Could it be that they all know there is not a single revelation about them that would surprise, much less shock, anybody anywhere at this point? There just wasn't a lot of there there. But. The photography is fascinating, especially the shot of the VP standing next to the light switch and the thermostat. No intentional message there, I suppose.
Your piece was on point. No doubt Susie Wiles is Trump's chief enabler of some awful and illegal stuff. It appears to me that Wiles did not reveal much to those of us following the news. What was the purpose of these interviews? Was Wiles simply sanewashing the indefensible? And, perhaps, was she simultaneously letting us know that there is "nothing to be done" to rein in her wayward charge's impulses? The latter would please her boss, because Trump just wants the American public to succumb and not resist his corruption & tyranny. I have news for this corrupt regime, Americans are extremely unhappy -- as evidenced by the polls -- There will be one hell of a resistance in the courts and the polls in 2026.
I suppose the role of Chief-Of-Staff is by definition an enabler but the question is what are you willing to give up in integrity, ethics, self-respect, in order to do it for Donald Trump?
“I don’t think he wakes up thinking about retribution." No, of course he doesn't...he takes care of all of that BEFORE he goes to sleep.
Then, of course, we get the standard "taken out of context" defense once she realizes what she's done. Unfortunately we never get to ask these people exactly what context would mitigate a particular gaffe? Especially since it was recorded. I wonder if her "victims" are convinced by that?
"What emerges instead is a portrait of a chief of staff who is buffeted by the same storm she’s helping Trump unleash on America — even as she shrugs off responsibility for the havoc that’s ensued."
In other words, Susie Wiles is the carbon-copy lackey/toady that infuses the whole Trump cabinet. So intent upon not getting thrown under the bus, she will go along with his irrationality.
So, I guess the upshot is, like Michael Cohen, "she knows some things," so Trump can't let her go. Unlike Cohen, who went to prison for the idiot in chief, she's still a free woman. Either way, we'll have her testify after the next election.
And, just like that, it’s another day for Susie Wiles, to continue on being one of Trump’s complicit enablers. I will NOT normalize her cunning and diabolical conduct. She knows exactly what she is doing. She sold her soul to Don the Con. UNFORGIVABLE‼️🤬
I wonder how far the Wiles attitude has spread to the military side. What proportion of leadership there are on board with hunting down antifa when asked?
Start first with the photography. Years ago, Richard Avedon did a series of brilliant portraits of Washington elites. This set of portraits exceeds those.
The noir portrait of Steven Miller is perfect. The self assurance, the hubris of the malevolent souls who occupy the Trump administration is on the surface of these portraits. They present themselves as they are—simultaneously “innocent” and evil.
And that is the through line connecting the Wiles interview with the portraits. Could she possibly be so naive as to think that she could openly speak on the record about the President and his destructive acolytes in the manner she did without repercussions? Or does she feel she is immune to repercussions? Or is she playing four dimensional chess in some intricate White House game of thrones? Or angling to immunize herself at some later date from the consequences of her brutally feckless decisions?
It probably doesn’t matter. Despite her protestations, she is responsible for all of these boundlessly incompetent and vicious appointees, as well as all their boundlessly barbaric decisions.
It is typical of Wiles that she recognizes the “alcoholic” behavior of her father in Trump but fails to recognize how learning to manage her father’s illness disabled her moral and emotional compass as well.
Reminds me of the Nuremberg defense. just following orders. I have no responsibility for outcomes. I am a good family person, and in love with the boss.
Whatever Wiles thought she was revealing, her self-exposure is revolting. I'm surprised it could be reduced to five worst. Something in the retribution section that jumped out at me: Wiles justified Trump going after AG Tish James this way: "She had a half a billion dollars of his money.” The twisted playground illogic smirking at a spurious charge against the prosecutor who proved Trump a fraud is morally and legally bankrupt. But worse: In that casual framing Wiles characterized a $500 million civil court judgement against Trump's business fraud (in which he avoided hundreds of millions of dollars in interest payments by his false evaluations) as some kind of personal shake-down by James. Falsely characterizing legal penalties as though they are pocketed by the prosecution would be laughable if there weren't millions of suckers in this country ready to believe it.
and of course Trump has not paid that money, right? Will he ever? (And E. Jean Carroll's $95 million...)
Excellent post!
It looks to me that the crew of the Pirate ship is worried about the Captain and their link to the Gravy Train! Remember one truism in the world of Trump: "follow the money." Let's not forget that first, Susie chose to be his personal defense attorney and collected some undisclosed loot for that failed multiyear exercise. That process exposed her to the truth of Trump's sins and crimes during the "discovery phase" in a couple of those cases. Trump and Susie both know why Trump wants her to be close. As correctly shown in this post, she is not a patriotic person. Let's not get distracted by her attempt to share some "truth." All she is doing is reacting to her lizard brain screaming that she needs to do something to distance herself from the Pirate Captain while maintaining her connection to the gravy train that the Pirate Captain controls.
That she learned that self-defense response from her alcoholic father is personally sad because I used to respect him as a sports announcer. Seeing the product of his parenting betraying the American people makes me very sad.
She sounds like another truly awful human being sucked into this administration. I am glad she says her prayers every night so she can go to work the next day and condone direct murder on the high seas and indirect murder through the disruption of overseas aid and yanking healthcare from millions. Her other christian endeavors included supporting the abuse and arrest of immigrants (legal and undocumented) and support for a convicted sex offender, implacable liar, and inconceivably corrupt person. I despair at the rot inside our government. Will we ever find our way back to decency?
Remember, she was a central part of this admin long before it was an admin. As CofS, she helped T fill out All the other senior staff positions.
She seems like the dumbest dodo of all of them. Ignorant of everything, criminally incurious, enabling of at least one drunk (even if an alcoholic does not imbibe — and we only have donnie’s word for it that he does not — s/he still has all the destructive behaviours) and assorted drug addicts, a stupid gullible mark for the most heinous con man in history, limitlessly greedy for ‘relevance’, besotted with her own empty ‘power’’, … She’s just a shallow female version of a nasty old FL man.
Wiles is trying to have it both ways. She will continue enabling Trump but is trying to create plausible deniability so history and the courts won’t judge her too harshly.
I seriously doubt she is smart enough or strategic enough to have thought that far ahead. She sounds like the dumbest of a group of moronic cretins.
The entire thing is a weird read and a weird response. Is she the pantsuited, Thatcher-haired reincarnation of Thomas Cromwell? or is she just a standard-issue workplace gossip with the nuance of Godzilla? And why was everyone she threw under the bus, over so many salads, so sanguine about it? Could it be that they all know there is not a single revelation about them that would surprise, much less shock, anybody anywhere at this point? There just wasn't a lot of there there. But. The photography is fascinating, especially the shot of the VP standing next to the light switch and the thermostat. No intentional message there, I suppose.
Don't insult the memory of Thomas Cromwell.
Exactly.
Did she really throw anyone under the bus? The description she gave of people were direct, truthful, and ones that they themselves would appreciate.
Voight is probably thrilled to be thought of as a zealot.
Your piece was on point. No doubt Susie Wiles is Trump's chief enabler of some awful and illegal stuff. It appears to me that Wiles did not reveal much to those of us following the news. What was the purpose of these interviews? Was Wiles simply sanewashing the indefensible? And, perhaps, was she simultaneously letting us know that there is "nothing to be done" to rein in her wayward charge's impulses? The latter would please her boss, because Trump just wants the American public to succumb and not resist his corruption & tyranny. I have news for this corrupt regime, Americans are extremely unhappy -- as evidenced by the polls -- There will be one hell of a resistance in the courts and the polls in 2026.
I suppose the role of Chief-Of-Staff is by definition an enabler but the question is what are you willing to give up in integrity, ethics, self-respect, in order to do it for Donald Trump?
“I don’t think he wakes up thinking about retribution." No, of course he doesn't...he takes care of all of that BEFORE he goes to sleep.
Then, of course, we get the standard "taken out of context" defense once she realizes what she's done. Unfortunately we never get to ask these people exactly what context would mitigate a particular gaffe? Especially since it was recorded. I wonder if her "victims" are convinced by that?
I read that Vance & Co. have vowed to eschew interviews with the MSM "from now on!" The exact thing they accused Joe Biden of avoiding.
"What emerges instead is a portrait of a chief of staff who is buffeted by the same storm she’s helping Trump unleash on America — even as she shrugs off responsibility for the havoc that’s ensued."
In other words, Susie Wiles is the carbon-copy lackey/toady that infuses the whole Trump cabinet. So intent upon not getting thrown under the bus, she will go along with his irrationality.
“ In other words, Susie Wiles is the carbon-copy lackey/toady that infuses the whole Trump cabinet.”
She is the *original* lackey/toady/etc of this regime. And picked by T for this purpose.
So, I guess the upshot is, like Michael Cohen, "she knows some things," so Trump can't let her go. Unlike Cohen, who went to prison for the idiot in chief, she's still a free woman. Either way, we'll have her testify after the next election.
Does she fit in 'banality of evil' category?
To quote Susie: “I can’t tell you why you shouldn’t think that.”
hard to deny.
And, just like that, it’s another day for Susie Wiles, to continue on being one of Trump’s complicit enablers. I will NOT normalize her cunning and diabolical conduct. She knows exactly what she is doing. She sold her soul to Don the Con. UNFORGIVABLE‼️🤬
Every one of those lawyers knows the law and knows he doesn't give a shit about it. They should all be disbarred.
I wonder how far the Wiles attitude has spread to the military side. What proportion of leadership there are on board with hunting down antifa when asked?
Start first with the photography. Years ago, Richard Avedon did a series of brilliant portraits of Washington elites. This set of portraits exceeds those.
The noir portrait of Steven Miller is perfect. The self assurance, the hubris of the malevolent souls who occupy the Trump administration is on the surface of these portraits. They present themselves as they are—simultaneously “innocent” and evil.
And that is the through line connecting the Wiles interview with the portraits. Could she possibly be so naive as to think that she could openly speak on the record about the President and his destructive acolytes in the manner she did without repercussions? Or does she feel she is immune to repercussions? Or is she playing four dimensional chess in some intricate White House game of thrones? Or angling to immunize herself at some later date from the consequences of her brutally feckless decisions?
It probably doesn’t matter. Despite her protestations, she is responsible for all of these boundlessly incompetent and vicious appointees, as well as all their boundlessly barbaric decisions.
It is typical of Wiles that she recognizes the “alcoholic” behavior of her father in Trump but fails to recognize how learning to manage her father’s illness disabled her moral and emotional compass as well.
Reminds me of the Nuremberg defense. just following orders. I have no responsibility for outcomes. I am a good family person, and in love with the boss.
and she says her prayers every night, too!
Lydia is correct. I should have included that.
and she should think about prayers during the day also.
Ugh!