Speaker 1: So unfortunately for Trump, not old press is really good press.
And this morning a bombshell article, and when I mean
a bombshell, I'm talking about nuclear was published by Vanity Fair,
where Chris Whipple interviewed Trump's chief of Staff Susie Wiles
eleven times, not once, not twice, eleven times, and her
comments were scathing as she spoke candidly about the failures
of the Trump administration and welcome back to the Michael
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come to an end. So look, I want to get
into the weeds and break down what Susie Wiles told reporters,
but first we actually have to show you the damage
control that she posted this on x right after the
article was published. This is what she says. The article
published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece
on me and the finest president, white House staff, and
cabinet in history. Significant context was disregarded, 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.
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. So let me be crystal clear on something.
She knows that what she did was going to get
her literally in hot water, and so what do you do.
You turn around and you claim it was a lie.
It's disingenuous. They didn't put in the context, they didn't
do X, Y and Z. And the only reason that
they're doing this, and of course, is to discredit the incredible,
incredible things that President Trump has done more than any
other president, not in four years, but in eight years,
literally in eleven months. It's all flattery, That's all it is.
It's all performance, all right. Now. More importantly, I want
to get into what Susie Wiles actually did say, and
I want to read from the New York Times article
that breaks down her comments. Let me start with the
first in it, Trump's top eight acknowledges score settling behind prosecutions.
In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House
Chief of Staff, said Trump has an alcoholics personality, called
JD Vance a conspiracy theorist, and concluded that Pam Bondi
completely whiffed the early handling of the Epstein files. In fact,
nothing there is actually inaccurate in it says over the
course of eleven interviews. Again, let me repeat that eleven interviews,
Miss Wilds offered pungent assessments of the President and his team.
Mister Trump has an alcoholics personality. Vice President JD. Vance
has been a conspiracy theorist for a decade, and his
conversion from Trump critic to ally was based not on principle,
but was sort of political because he was running for Senate.
Elon Musk is an avowed Kennemine new user and an
odd odd duck whose actions were not always rational and
left her a guest Russell T. Vaught, the budget director
is a right wing absolute zealoon and Attorney General Pam
Bondi completely whiffed in handling the Epstein files. Finally, the
third one, she attributes her ability to work for Trump
to growing up with an alcoholic father, the sportscaster Pat
summrle high functioning alcoholics, or alcoholics in general, their personalities
are exaggerated when they drink, she said, And so I'm
a little bit of an expert in big personalities. While
mister Trump does not drink, she said, he has an
alcoholics personality and operates with a view that there's nothing
he can't do, nothing, zero nothing. In a sign of
how much her job revolves around the president's big personality,
stream of consciousness, public comments, she keeps a freestanding video
monitor next to the fireplace in her West Wing office
with a live feed of mister Trump's social media posts.
I mean, imagine, as chief of staff, your job is
to sit there and monitor your ward, in this case,
the president of the United States twenty four to seven,
every post, every comment, every everything, Because she has no
idea when he's going to say something ridiculous, something vile,
something that just lacks empathy, like what we saw just
the other day with the Rob Reiner Michelle Rhiner murder.
She also broke down Trump's weaponization of the DOJ. Something,
as you see over my shoulder, I say exactly the
same thing. How Donald Trump weaponized the United States Department
of Justice against his critics. Let me show you what
it says. Susie Wilds, the White House Chief of Staff,
told an interviewer that she forged a loose agreement with
mister Trump to stop focusing after three months on punishing antagonists,
an effort that evidently did not succeed. While she insisted
that mister Trump is not constantly thinking about retribution, she
said that when there's an opportunity, he will go for it. Further,
it turns around and says, we have a loose agreement
that the score settling will end before the first ninety
days are over, she said, Then when that did not
happen by August, she told mister Whipple that I don't
think he's on a retribution tour, but said that he
was aiming at people who did bad things in coming
after him. In some cases, it may look like retribution,
she said, And there may be an element of that
from time to time. Who would blame him? Not me?
Well me say who would blame him? I certainly would,
because it shouldn't be about retribution. Now, I'm not talking
about the cases against say Tis James, Alvin Bragg, James,
call me Adam Schiff, John Bolton. I'm not going to
even get into the metrics of those cases because I
believe that they can all and should all be held accountable.
I absolutely do. But the fact and the timing. Had
he not gone public and said, you know, I think
that this person should be looked at. I think this
person should be indicted for breaking the law and so on,
He's doing exactly what I believe the mistake that Tis
James made, which is to announce what they're going to
do and try to use it for political purpose, hence
the term weaponization of the Department of Justice. She also
mentioned Trump's unprecedented amount of pardons. Let me show you
what she said there. In it, she writes, she said
she urge mister Trump not to pardon the most violent
rioters from January sixth, twenty twenty one, which he did, anyway,
be unsuccessfully tried to get him to delay his major
tariffs because of a huge disagreement among his advisors, and
she said the administration needed to look harder at deportations
to prevent mistakes. But she did not complain about being overruled,
and at various points she said got on board with
the eventual decisions. There have been a couple of times
where I've been outvoted, she said. And if there's a tie,
he wins. Now, let me be clear, she never has
any position other than to give an opinion to which
he's already made up his mind. About what she could
have done is something that I used to do, which
has tried to I don't know what are down the poison,
but she doesn't really know him as well as the
me wants to portray now. Susie also spoke to the
reporter about the handling of the Epstein files. Let me
show you what she says there. Interviews published by Vanity Fair,
Miss Wilds faulted Miss Bondi, one of her closest friends
in the administration, for her early handling of the Epstein files,
an issue that has been a cause celebrat for mister
Trump's right wing base. I think she completely whiffed on
appreciating that that was the very targeted group that cared
about this. Miss Wils said, 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's sure as hell wasn't
on her desk. Mister Vance, by contrast, understood the sensitivity
because he himself was a conspiracy theorist, she said. She
added that it was Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's eye
idea to go interview mister Epstein's convicted associate, Gallaine Maxwell
in prison, and that the President did not know that
she would be transferred to a minimum security prison camp.
The President was ticked, she said. The President was mighty unhappy.
I don't know why they moved her, Neither does the president.
Let me be crystal clear, I don't buy that bullshit,
not for a second, Because at any point in time,
somebody pulled a stunt like this that pissed him off,
that went behind his back. The answer shit can in
less than thirty seconds now. She also mentioned that Trump's
tendency to ramble about topics, which he calls the weave
that they aren't relatable to the average American. Let me
show you what she says there. Miss Wiles confirmed that
she wants mister Trump to talk more about the economy
and less about Saudi Arabia. She denied that he would
use the military to influence the midterm elections and ruled
out him running again in twenty twenty eight. His comments
about seeking an unconstitutional third term are one hundred percent
about driving people crazy. Well, that may be true, but
never put it past him. When he says something, No,
somewhere inside him he actually means what he's saying. Now,
Like I said at the beginning, Susie Well, She was
quick to post her response on social media. I mean,
I guess Trump clearly didn't like the reference to him
being an alcoholic or the association thereof. Now, more importantly,
I do want to end on a clip. This is
so insane. That's why I say subscribe, comment, share, share
this because this level of stupidity has to stop. Representative
Steve Scalise, who himself was injured, was shot when on
air unseen NBC when the Vanity Fair story broke. Now
he was read a section of the article and his
response it literally shows just how well these maga pundits
can stick to their talking points even when they're asked
to discuss an issue or a topic that they haven't
been briefed on that they know absolutely nothing about.
Speaker 2: Play the clip, well, I obviously have not read that article.
I'll have to read it. I know Susie. She's the
hardest working person up in DC with the hardest working
president in American Donald Trump. By the way, he doesn't
even drink alcohol. So not sure what that quote is
related to. The full context would be helpful, but President
Trump never stops working for American people. I've talked to
him about healthcare, talk to him about a lot of issues,
and he's engaged in all of them. He wants to
help lower costs for families. Again, not just in healthcare,
at the grocery store. Look at gasoline prices. We're seeing
a four year low in gas prices at the today.
That's more money in people's pockets. We're seeing higher wages.
We need to do more, and we're gonna do more.
But those are some good things that President Trump's already
delivered on in less than a year.
Speaker 1: Like I said, they stick to the talking points and
they never leave. Of course, talk about gasoline. Absolutely, he's right.
Lower gas prices right now. Oh yeah, the price on
eggs went down, not because of anything they did, but
simply because more chickens were you know, we're born, and
more chickens are now laying eggs, plain and simple, as
opposed to the destruction that had to happen as a
result of the bird flu. So this is the point.
We are in a place right now where we can't
listen to the right at all because they're maga. Talking
points will literally try to overshadow any of the realities.
And that's why it's important. It's important that we stay strong,
we stay united, and most importantly, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,
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