Washington, 17 December (H.S.): White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, the first woman to helm this pivotal role, has vehemently contested a Vanity Fair profile that quotes her delivering scathing assessments of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Elon Musk, accusing the publication of orchestrating a disingenuously framed hit piece bereft of vital context.

In a series of nearly a dozen interviews conducted over the year, Wiles likened Trump's commanding demeanor—despite his teetotaler status—to an alcoholic's personality, attributing her resilience to a childhood shadowed by her father's alcoholism, which honed her adeptness at navigating outsized egos.

She conceded a retributive element in the administration's legal pursuits against adversaries, noting Trump seizes opportunities without obsessing over vengeance, while critiquing Attorney General Pam Bondi's mishandling of Jeffrey Epstein files and Musk's aggressive dismantling of USAID, which she deemed excessively hasty yet necessary to shatter bureaucratic inertia.

Wiles portrayed Vance, once a Trump detractor turned loyal deputy, as a decade-long conspiracy theorist whose ideological pivot smacked of political expediency, and derided Musk as an avowed ketamine user who slumbered in a sleeping bag at the Executive Office Building, dubbing him an odd, odd duck whose genius exacts a toll.

Responding on X mere hours after the article's Tuesday release, Wiles lambasted Vanity Fair for excising favorable remarks to fabricate an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the President and his team.

The White House rallied swiftly behind her, with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hailing Wiles as instrumental to Trump's most successful first 11 months and his no greater or more loyal advisor, while decrying the magazine's bias of omission.

Vance, addressing reporters, quipped he endorses only true conspiracies—like reports of Joe Biden's frailty—before affirming Wiles' unwavering loyalty, though neither Trump nor Musk has publicly weighed in as tensions simmer within MAGA circles.

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