Vanity Fair author fires again at Trump administration over claims of Susie Wiles ‘hit piece’: ‘Everything is on tape’ | EUROtoday

The Vanity Fair author who carried out a fiery interview with Susie Wiles has hit again on the White House’s accusation that he wrote a “hit piece” on the Trump administration.

While writing the unprecedented interview, journalist Chris Whipple met with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles eleven instances over eleven months.

Wiles is among the most vital individuals in Trump’s orbit and is broadly credited with enjoying a key half in masterminding his return to the White House.

In the piece, Wiles mentioned that Trump had an “alcoholic’s personality,” claimed that JD Vance was a conspiracy theorist, and urged that Elon Musk was an “avowed” ketamine person.

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Although Wiles has since claimed that the context of her claims had been “disregarded,” Whipple says that “Everything is on tape.”

“This was one of those cases as a reporter in your career when lightning strikes, and it was astonishing to me the extent to which she was unguarded and freewheeling on the record all the time,” he advised CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “Everything in the article was on the record. I recorded every interview.”

Whipple in contrast the scandal to Watergate and identified that the White House has been unable to dispute any of his claims to date.

“There isn’t a single fact or a single assertion that they’ve challenged in the piece,” he mentioned. “It really reminds me of the Watergate days when Ben Bradlee talked about non-denial denial. So this is the ultimate non-denial denial.”

Wiles is understood for making few public appearances, with Whipple dubbing her the “Greta Garbo” of the second Trump administration.

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However, her interview with Vanity Fair gave an unvarnished look into the behind-the-scenes chaos on the White House.

She alleged that she hit out at Elon Musk for sharing a publish that blamed public sector employees for killing hundreds of thousands below Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong. Wiles claimed Musk had shared the publish whereas “microdosing.”

Wiles added that the tech CEO’s cuts to USAID left her “aghast,” since she believed it did “very good work.”

The mastermind behind Ron DeSantis’ profitable 2018 gubernatorial run additionally claimed that there was “nothing, zero, nothing” that Trump actually believed he couldn’t obtain. She mentioned that was as a result of his persona is exaggerated in the identical manner an individual’s conduct is amplified when ingesting alcohol, though Trump doesn’t drink.

In a publish on X, Wiles branded the article as a “disingenuously framed hit piece.”

“Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story,” Wiles wrote. “I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and our team.”

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In a surprising show, Trump rushed to Wiles’ protection as her claims about his administration ignited a firestorm on social media.

“I didn’t read it, but I don’t read Vanity Fair — but she’s done a fantastic job,” the president advised The New York Post. “I think from what I hear, the facts were wrong, and it was a very misguided interviewer, purposely misguided.”

He added that he believed Wiles was “fantastic” and reiterated that he doesn’t drink alcohol.

“So everybody knows that — but I’ve often said that if I did, I’d have a very good chance of being an alcoholic,” he mentioned. “I have said that many times about myself, I do. It’s a very possessive personality.”

Vance additionally defended Wiles whereas talking to reporters, regardless of her branding him as a conspiracy theorist.

He claimed that the pair have “joked in private and in public about that for a long time” and claimed that he has not learn the article.