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\n White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles looks on during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and members of Trump’s Cabinet at the White House on Oct. 17, in Washington.<\/p>\n
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A new Vanity Fair profile by author Chris Whipple cracks open the private world <\/a>of a White House Chief of Staff who rarely speaks and, when she does, doesn’t hedge.<\/p>\n Speaking with All Things Considered, Whipple said the piece is based on 11 in-depth, on-the-record interviews over the past year, with an extraordinary level of access to Susie Wiles. “Every once in a while in the course of your career as a reporter, lightning strikes,” Whipple told NPR.<\/p>\n In Whipple’s reporting, Wiles doled out criticism for multiple colleagues in and around the White House \u2013 including saying Attorney General Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” on her handling of the Epstein files, and calling Vice President J.D. Vance a “conspiracy theorist,” among other characterizations. Whipple’s profile showed Wiles was equally blunt about her boss, describing President Donald Trump as having “an alcoholic’s personality,” a characterization Trump, who does not drink, later echoed himself to another news outlet<\/a>, saying, “She’s right. I do have an obsessive and addictive personality.”<\/p>\n