Trump has the “personality of an alcoholic,” says his chief of staff

In a series of interviews reported Tuesday by the magazine Vanity Fair, Donald Trump‘s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, painted an unflattering portrait of the president and his inner circle, in addition to contradicting the administration on several issues.

In particular, she describes her boss as a man with the personality of an alcoholicand Vice President JD Vance as a conspiracy theorist.

High-functioning alcoholics, or alcoholics in general, have their personality exacerbated when they drinkshe declared, specifying that she grew up with a father addicted to alcohol.

The president, who has often repeated that he does not consume alcohol, operates with the belief that there are no limits to what it can do – nothing, absolutely nothingshe added, saying to herself expert in strong personalities.

Regarding JD Vance, she said he was conspiracy theorist for a decade. She also described the conversion of the vice president – ​​once an anti-Trump, until he ran for a Senate seat – as a gesture of nature a little more political than that of Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

These are just some of the direct and surprising statements made to a journalist by a woman considered to be a loyal ally of Donald Trump.

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi? She mishandled the Epstein case shortly after taking office.

Ms. Bondi, that the New York Times described as one of Susie Wiles’ close contacts within the Trump administration, totally failed to understand that it was precisely the targeted group who cared about thisargued Ms. Wiles, referring to right-wing influencers.

First she gave them binders full of blanksshe said about the so-called documents declassifiedbut largely already made public which were given to them with great fanfare at the start of the year.

Ensuite, [Pam Bondi] said that the list of witnesses, or the list of clients of[‘Epstein]was on his desk. There’s no client list, and it certainly wasn’t on his desk.

Multi-billionaire Elon Musk, who slashed public spending when he was head of the department of government efficiency? A user confessed to ketamine and a strange character whose actions were not always rational.

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The director of the White House Budget Office, Russ Vought, one of the architects of the radical Project 2025 platform? A absolute right-wing fanatic.

Taken from a series of 11 interviews given to the magazine Vanity Fairthe remarks of the president’s confidant are part of a file in which 6 other members of the Trump administration have voluntarily collaborated.

Without denying the statements that have been reported, the main interested party denounced on the social network dependent text fallacious.

The article published early this morning is a misleading indictment against me and the best President, the best White House staff, and the best Cabinet in history.

She accused Vanity Fair for not having taken into account the context in which she had made them. I conclude, after reading the article, that this was done in order to paint a largely chaotic and negative portrait of the president and our teamshe wrote.

The unexpected remarks of Ms. Wiles, despite having solid political experience and recognized as a fine strategist – to the point of being credited with the re-election of Donald Trump – fueled speculation among journalists and commentators.

Wiles contradicts the administration on several issues

Susie Wiles also commented just as openly on several issues on which she contradicted the official version offered by the Trump administration.

She and the president had a informal agreement under which he could not settle accounts after the first 90 days, she said. Donald Trump’s opponents accuse him of politicizing the justice system to the detriment of those he considers his enemies, something he denies.

I don’t think he’s in revenge modebut it targets people who have made bad thingssupported his collaborator.

In some cases, it can feel like revenge. And there may be an element of that from time to time. Who could blame him? Not me.

Mortgage fraud charges against New York State Attorney General Letitia James, who obtained a guilty verdict against Donald Trump in a fraud case, could to be the only revengeshe said.

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In recent weeks, a judge canceled the trial of Ms. James, whose indictment Donald Trump had publicly called for Pam Bondi. The Justice Department then failed, twice and within days of each other, to convince a grand jury to file new charges against him.

Susie Wiles also seemed to suggest that the campaign of strikes carried out in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea against boats accused of drug trafficking was aimed at regime change in Venezuela, which the Trump administration has always denied until now.

He wants to keep blowing up boats until [Nicolas] Maduro capitulated.

Ms. Wiles also admitted that the American president, who raised the possibility of carrying out ground strikes in Venezuela, would need Congressional authorization.

She also recognized the existence of significant divisions within Donald Trump’s team regarding the vast tariff offensive launched last spring. The president’s aides recommended he wait until the team was completely united before moving forward.

But he announced [les droits de douane] despite everything, and it was more painful than I expected.

She also contradicted President Trump, who accused former Democratic President Bill Clinton of visiting Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, where the pedophile allegedly organized orgies involving minors. There is no evidence in this sense, she indicated. The president [Trump] was wrong on this point.

We know that [Donald Trump] is in the file Epstein, she also affirmed, ensuring however that his name was not mentioned because he had committed acts objectionable[s].

Touting the work of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Susie Wiles admitted to being appalled by its dismantling by Elon Musk. No rational person could think that the process of [démantèlement] of theUSAID was a good thing. Personshe argued.

According to Vanity FairSusie Wiles also revealed that she had advised the American president against pardoning the most violent rioters behind the assault on the Capitol in January 2021, an advice that he did not listen to.

Trump administration defends Susie Wiles

As if to protect her from attacks by supporters of President Trump, the White House came to the defense of Susie Wiles, even if it is the image of other members of the administration which is mistreated and the latter’s message is undermined.

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President Trump himself granted a brief interview to New York Post in which he praised the fantastic work of his chief of staff. Reiterating his confidence in him, he assured that he was not shocked by his words.

I’m not a drinkerhe reiterated. Everyone knows it, but I have often said that if I drank, I would be at high risk of becoming an alcoholic.he added, invoking his addictive personality.

Questioned by a journalist on the sidelines of an event, JD Vance also trivialized Susie Wiles’ comments, also taking the trouble to demonstrate that he was not offended.

Sometimes I’m a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in true conspiracy theorieshe replied after laughing at the question.

Echoing the words of Susie Wiles, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, in an interview with Fox News, also criticized Vanity Fair for quoting the chief of staff out of context.

Denouncing a misleading reporting which reflected, according to her, the journalist’s bias, Ms. Leavitt deplored that the accomplishments highlighted by the chief of staff and other collaborators of Donald Trump had been evacuated from the published articles.

On social networks, several members of the Trump administration conveyed the same message, denouncing the journalist from Vanity Fair and praising the work of the first woman to take on the role of chief of staff.

With information from Vanity Fair, Reuters and New York Times