White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said President Donald Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality” and suggested New York Attorney General Letitia James was targeted in retribution for prosecuting the president, according to a series of bombshell on-the-record interviews published by Vanity Fair.
Wiles said in a post on X Tuesday that her quotes had been taken out of context and that the article was intended to portray the administration negatively. She stopped short of saying she was misquoted.
“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,” Wiles wrote on X. “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.”