Trump Chief of Staff Wiles Slams Vanity Fair Report, Says Context In Her Interviews Was 'Disregarded': 'Framed Hit Piece'

Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump's chief of staff, slammed Vanity Fair over a sprawling report revolving around 11 interviews with her throughout the administration, calling it a "disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history."

The piece, published on Tuesday, included parts in which Wiles gave a series of candid assessments of top officials in the administration. She claimed Trump has an "alcoholic's personality" and Russel Vought, architect of Project 2025 is a "right-wing absolute zealot."

She also said Vice President JD Vance has been a "conspiracy theorist" for a decade and his embrace of the president has been "sort of political" because he was running for Senate.

In a rare social media publication, Wiles said "significant context was disregarded" in the interview and "much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story." "I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team," she added.

"The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other President has accomplished in eight years and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have been honored to work for the better part of a decade. None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of Making America Great Again!" Wiles concluded.

Elsewhere in the interview, Wiles recalled urging Trump not to pardon the most violent rioters of the January 6 assault on the Capitol, and sought to get him to delay his tariffs because of a "huge disagreement" among his advisers.

The report also quotes her slamming Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein Files, saying she "completely whiffed on appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared about this."

"First, she gave them binders full of nothingness. And then she said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn't on her desk," Wiles said.

She also acknowledged that Trump is on the Epstein Files, but noted "he's not in the file doing anything awful." And rebuked Trump's claim that the files included incriminating evidence about former President Bill Clinton. "The president was wrong about that," she added in a passage of the interview.