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President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles disputed a Vanity Fair article based on hours of interviews she gave to an author.

Wiles spoke 11 times to Christopher Whipple, who has written a highly regarded book on other White House chiefs of staff, and the magazine published the first of two parts of an article based on those conversations that shocked many readers with claims about the president and other high-ranking administration officials.

Vice President JD Vance's previous demands for accountability are now creating complications for Donald Trump following public backlash over the president's recent ugly comments about Rob Reiner's murder

On MSNOW's "Morning Joe," multiple panelists referenced Vance's earlier insistence that anyone who criticized conservative commentator Charlie Kirk after his fatal shooting on a Utah college campus in September should face employment consequences.

In the aftermath of Kirk's death, Vance declared, "Call them out, and hell, call their employer. We don't believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility," during a guest appearance hosting Kirk's podcast.

But on Monday, hours after Reiner's death was reported, Trump took to Truth Social to write, “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS."

Conservative columnist Matt Lewis raised the inconsistency during a Tuesday appearance on MS NOW, questioning who would hold Trump accountable for his attacks on Reiner following the deaths of the Hollywood icon and his wife — with their son accused of being the killer.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles broke ranks and made waves with a series of jaw-dropping interviews Tuesday.

Vanity Fair published the first of a two-part article based on interviews Wiles gave to writer Chris Whipple, who published a well-regarded book on White House chiefs of staff. Journalists, political staffers and other social media users were stunned by some of her revelations.

In a bombshell interview with Vanity Fair, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles launched pointed criticisms at billionaire Elon Musk, among other Trump administration figures.

Wiles, tasked with overseeing Trump's presidential campaign and subsequently managing the White House, made unusually frank observations during her conversation with author Chris Whipple. While she directed criticism toward Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, she reserved her sharpest comments for Musk, who was once a regular presence in the Oval Office before his relationship with Trump deteriorated.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles left critics stunned Tuesday after openly criticizing Vice President JD Vance in a "surprisingly candid” interview published in Vanity Fair.

“White House chief of staff Susie Wiles shares, um, surprisingly candid views of the Trump team,” wrote MS NOW and “Morning Joe” host Jonathan Lemire Tuesday in a social media post on X.

White House officials revealed Tuesday that the Trump administration is “likely” to engage in what critics have called acts of “piracy and maritime terrorism” — and “soon,” The New York Times reported.

According to multiple White House officials who spoke with the Times on the condition of anonymity, the Trump administration will “likely” seize more Venezuelan oil tankers following the administration’s seizure of the Venezuelan oil tanker “Skipper” last week in the Caribbean, an act that Venezuela condemned as an “act of international piracy.”

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles gave a series of 11 interviews to Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple, author of a well-regarded book on White House chiefs of staff, where she offered some withering assessments of the president and his team, including her counterintuitive comparison of Trump to her father, longtime NFL broadcaster and former player Pat Summerall.

"The most valuable gift Susie got from her dad was hard-earned," Whipple wrote. "Summerall was an absentee father and an alcoholic, and Wiles helped her mother stage interventions to get him into treatment. (Summerall was sober for 21 years before his death in 2013.) 'Alcoholism does bad things to relationships, and so it was with my dad and me,' Wiles said."

Early mistakes in the investigation of the fatal shooting at Brown University has left the FBI reliant on another bailout like the tip that led to an arrest in the Charlie Kirk assassination, according to a law enforcement analyst.

Police have released new photo and video evidence of an individual believed to be the suspect but have asked for public assistance in identifying the alleged killer, and former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem told "CNN News Central" anchor John Berman that FBI Director Kash Patel had bungled the case within hours of the shooting.

Business leaders are expressing growing apprehension that Donald Trump may either disregard a Supreme Court ruling or employ legal maneuvers to evade consequences if the conservative-leaning court invalidates his tariff policies.

According to Politico, indicators suggest the Trump White House anticipates an unfavorable decision — and is taking steps to retain tariff revenues already collected, potentially creating a complicated aftermath to any adverse ruling.

Politico legal analyst Ankush Khardori noted that the administration's apparent indifference to a potential loss obscures new legal and political challenges it would face. He wrote, "Their seeming indifference, however, also obscures the new legal and political obstacles that the Trump administration would confront.

"The fallback effort would not be as simple or straightforward a matter as they have claimed. It is true that the administration could use other statutes to replicate (largely, though probably not entirely) the current tariff regime in the short term. But a new set of questions would immediately emerge."

Khardori points to the lawsuit filed by wholesale retailer Costco as evidence that businesses recognize the administration's position and are positioning themselves for refunds from a government reluctant to provide them.

Trade lawyer Timothy Meyer warned that actions taken by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warrant scrutiny. Meyer noted, "Bessent and other members of the administration have spent months telling the public and the courts that refunding the IEEPA tariffs would lead to a fiscal calamity." He characterized efforts to use refunds as leverage in litigation as "ham-handed," stating that such tactics have "really just eviscerated any confidence that anyone would have that the administrative process would be administered efficiently, quickly and in good faith."

Meyer added, "People increasingly suspect the Justice Department will drag this out for as long as possible."

A Supreme Court defeat could have broader political consequences for the Republican Party. While Trump's congressional allies might be expected to encourage the president to abandon his tariff strategy to protect their political interests, Trump remains firmly committed to the policy. By continuing to pursue tariffs despite a major court setback, he risks damaging his party's standing and could face intensified Democratic scrutiny if they regain House control.

Residents of Vice President JD Vance's hometown in Ohio have mixed feelings about the city's most famous native son.

The 41-year-old Vance detailed his troubled upbringing in Middletown, where globalization hollowed out its industrial core and chased off good-paying jobs, in his 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” and Washington Post columnist Carine Hajjar found the folks back home never quite embraced him as one of their own.