Susie Wiles fessed up to some of the inner workings of the Trump administration, and despite telling the truth — even if the White House didn't want to hear it — she hasn't faced any calls for resignation following a candid interview with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.
Wiles said what many insiders have not admitted publicly about President Donald Trump and his administration, The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait wrote Tuesday.
"It is simply because these quotes, while dire, are also unsurprising. Wiles did not say anything that Republicans didn’t already know. Her error lay in the breach between what Trump’s supporters understand and what they are permitted to say," according to the outlet.
Wiles told Vanity Fair in the explosive story how Trump uses legal attacks for "score settling." She called Budget Director Russell Vought “a right-wing absolute zealot" and said Vice President JD Vance is "a conspiracy theorist for a decade." She also said that Elon Musk's "avowed ketamine" use is what led to the DOGE layoffs in federal government agencies.
Members of the conservative press have criticized Wiles not for admitting the truth but for saying anything at all.
"Their anger is reserved for Wiles for admitting as much to the 'lamestream' media," according to The Atlantic.
Most of what she said would have been career-ending for some, but instead, Trump insiders are looking the other way or calling the reporting an "omission."
"In this way, the most remarkable revelation from these newly published interviews comes not from what Wiles did or didn’t say, but in how Trump and his enablers are spinning it. Comments that would have precipitated a crisis in any other presidency are now simply being dismissed—knowingly, cynically—as 'fake news,'” The Atlantic reported.