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Additional coverage of the interviews of White House chief of staff Susie Wile at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/trump-susie-wiles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.frrm.-jW5tYAth_YV&smid=url-share

"Not only did she confirm that Mr. Trump is using criminal prosecution to retaliate against adversaries, she also acknowledged that he was not telling the truth when he accused former President Bill Clinton of visiting the private island of the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein."

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"Blowing up Venezuelan boats is not about drug interdiction, it is about regime change.”

We knew that!

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Tweet by Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand “Over lunch, Wiles told me about Trump’s Venezuela strategy: “He wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he will.” (Wiles’s statement appears to contradict the administration’s official stance that blowing up boats is about drug interdiction, not regime change.)”
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Dumb and dumber.
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Bsky post by Aaron Rupar ‪@atrupar.com‬ Q: Susie Wiles referred to you as a "conspiracy theorist" and your transformation into a Trump supporter as "an act of political expediency." Your response? JD VANCE: Sometimes I am in conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true