Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York suggested White House chief of staff Susie Wiles should have expected a negative outcome from agreeing to an interview with Vanity Fair.
“Vanity Fair was invited into the White House,” York said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday.
“Top officials in the White House, Vice President JD Vance, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, Karoline Leavitt, they were all there, they posed for pictures, and all talked to Vanity Fair. And Susie Wiles talked to Vanity Fair 11 times. Eleven times over the course of the year. So, she can complain that it’s misleading and out of context, but what did she expect going into this?” York added. “What in the world did the White House expect out of Vanity Fair?”
Vance defended Wiles and confirmed that he is “sometimes” a conspiracy theorist, as Wiles suggested to Vanity Fair.
Wiles slammed the article, published Tuesday, as a “disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”
Wiles is the first female White House chief of staff. She previously served in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, working in the scheduling department. Before becoming chief of staff, Wiles was Trump’s campaign manager.
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President Donald Trump was seemingly unfazed by Wiles’s reported comments, saying that she is “fantastic” as his chief of staff. Trump also agreed with Wiles’s assessment that he has an “alcoholic’s personality.”
“I don’t drink alcohol,” Trump told the New York Post. “So, everybody knows that — but I’ve often said that if I did, I’d have a very good chance of being an alcoholic. I have said that many times about myself, I do. It’s a very possessive personality.”