Adding to reports that billionaire Elon Musk is making the lives of Donald Trump's inner circle a living hell with his freelancing, Wired's Jake Lahut reported on MSNBC that some are looking to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to step in and right the ship.
Appearing on MSNBC's "Way Too Early" with host Ali Vitali, Lahut claimed relations between some Trump insiders and the unelected tech billionaire are reaching a tipping point.
"You spoke to half a dozen Trump loyalists, Republican aides and advisers inside and around the administration," Vitali prompted her guest. "I think many of them, even though they say they're shocked to be saying this, the rift almost seemed inevitable. But how much of a rift actually is it? And what is the sense behind the scenes?"
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"I still don't have a clear sense of the factions at play here, but it's happening," Lahut replied. "I wouldn't call it a full-blown freak-out quite yet, but the folks I talked to have all been loyal to Trump and have been on the [Trump] train since before January 6th, and it takes quite a lot to rattle or surprise these people."
"And these are folk who, you know, normally would be inclined to spin this in some sort of way," he added. "Instead, they don't know who to turn to. A lot of them want Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, to intervene in some form."
"I don't have any idea what that would look like," he confessed.
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