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Susie Wiles caught off guard by Trump's close relationship with aide: report

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly stunned by the relationship between President Donald Trump and one of his closest aides, according to The Daily Beast.

Trump has apparently told those in his inner circle that his executive assistant Natalie Harp, 34, will "never leave" him, The Beast reported. She has worked closely with the president and has been referred to as "the human printer." The Wall Street Journal has also reported that Harp was "the driving force" behind Trump's inflammatory comment shared on his Truth Social platform, including the racist video that depicted former President Barack Obama and former First lady Michelle Obama as apes and the AI-generated image of Trump as Jesus, which was later removed on the platform.

The nature of the relationship has left Wiles, another one of Trump's closest allies, with questions, according to New York Times White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their new book "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump."

"When Trump was in quasi-exile at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Harp joined him on the golf course and supplied him with a stream of positive news stories and social media comments," The Beast reported.

Harp also wrote Trump letters that the president kept in personal areas, including one that said "You are all that matters to me."

"As the year progressed, he kept jamming more gold pieces onto the mantel," Haberman and Swan wrote. "When Trump asked White House residence staff what they thought of the glittering display, most responses were muted, but his devout aide Natalie Harp would gush with delight."

"The situation was so bizarre that Trump’s future chief of staff Susie Wiles asked herself, 'Where am I?' according to Haberman and Swan," The Beast reported.

Susie Wiles 'on her last leg' amid White House turmoil: political experts

Susie Wiles is running out of patience with Trump amid mounting White House turmoil, a couple of political experts said.

Dean Blundell, a Canadian political commentator, detailed what insiders had told him about the Trump White House Chief of Staff during an interview with ex-GOP operative Steve Schmidt. Wiles was rumored to be looking for the exit, but she and other White House officials shot down the claim, which came from a Daily Mail report based on insider insight.

"Susie Wiles is on her last leg," Blundell said, sharing what sources told him. "She just doesn't want to be associated with this stuff anymore."

The Daily Mail reported that Wiles was mostly upset about the appointment of Bill Pulte as the acting Director of National Intelligence. Blundell said that it's telling for her to be "this disgusted by his pick for DNI," and suggested that her frustrations went beyond that.

"You don't have to look too far for the damage that this family is doing, not just in the United States, but also in Albania," Blundell said, referring to the protests over Ivanka Trump's planned resort.

Schmidt gave his two cents, saying, "If you held a gun to my head and make me guess what happened here, I would say that Susie Wiles probably threatened to quit."

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Todd Blanche may have torpedoed his own AG nomination with Epstein stunt: analysis

A damning New York Times report released on Wednesday raised new concerns about Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and his involvement with the Epstein files.

Blanche has come under fire over his role in "attempting to kill off the Epstein firestorm," just days after President Donald Trump formally nominated his former personal lawyer for permanent attorney general, The Daily Beast reported. Now, doubts were raised over whether he could be the top leader of the Justice Department ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing — and whether he could maintain his independence.

"Opponents argue he is not fit for the job, pointing to his handling of the Epstein files, which identified numerous victims but kept the names of potential co-conspirators hidden, as well as other controversies, such as Trump’s $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' slush fund and the backroom deal giving the president immunity from continuing IRS audits," The Beast reported.

The bombshell reporting from Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan is part of an upcoming book and includes multiple revelations about what happened within the Trump administration and includes Blanche's involvement as the then-deputy attorney general under former Attorney General Pam Bondi.

"Blanche and other Trump aides—including Vice President JD Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Communications Director Steven Cheung and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt—held a panicked meeting in the Situation Room in July last year, desperate to quell the MAGA civil war that had erupted over the administration’s failure to release the Epstein files," according to The Beast.

In the meeting, Blanche reportedly offered two potential options.

"The first was to petition Federal District Courts in Florida and New York to unseal grand jury testimonies related to Jeffrey Epstein’s heinous sex trafficking crimes, as these were unlikely to contain any new information, and therefore, releasing them was unlikely to damage Trump," The Beast reported.

Blanche likely knew that getting a federal judge to unseal grand jury material would be a tough move, The Beast reported.

"The second option was to have a Justice Department official interview Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, and release the transcript," according to The Beast.

Blanche apparently volunteered to sit down with Maxwell. He has described her attorney, David Oscar Markus, as "a friend."

Jaws drop as new Trump admin Epstein details go public: 'Sheer panic'

The internet was stunned on Wednesday after explosive reporting from two New York Times reporters revealed how the Trump administration panicked as the Justice Department released the Epstein files.

In an excerpt from the upcoming book from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” the reporters detailed what happened behind-the-scenes as former Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly infuriated the Trump team over meeting with right-wing influencers about the Epstein files, while Chief of Staff Susie Wiles believed that the Jeffrey Epstein controversy would eventually pass.

The reporting also revealed that Vice President JD Vance convened an urgent Situation Room meeting to address the unfolding crisis after the DOJ denied there was an Epstein client list — infuriating MAGA — and told top administration officials, "This is a huge problem."

Public figures and media experts reacted to the revelations.

"Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report that sheer panic over sordid facts surrounding the conduct of both Donald and Melania Trump have left the White House in a state of complete panic for over half a year. Suppressing the files and diverting attention from them led to commencement of a war," Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine contributing editor and lecturer at Columbia Law School, wrote on Bluesky.

"DOJ had already closed the Epstein file. No client list. Death ruled suicide. The Situation Room meeting wasn't about accountability. It was about stopping a MAGA civil war before the WSJ published a birthday letter Trump had been trying to bury. The performance of transparency. Not the thing itself," political commentator and Substack writer Mike Young, who has more than 15,000 followers, wrote on X.

"BIG excerpt out from new @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan book 'Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump'...apparently WH staff were terrified about the release of a document alleging Trump had a 'predilection for nipples' and abused those of an Epstein victim," Tommy Vietor, co-host of Pod Save America and former spokesperson for President Barack Obama and the National Security Council, wrote on X.

"A must read by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan," actress and activist Mia Farrow wrote on X.

White House quickly tries to stomp out story of Susie Wiles' reported departure plans

White House officials have responded to reports that Susie Wiles is planning to ditch her role as Trump's chief of staff.

"Total bull—," wrote the official White House Rapid Response account. "Another fake hatchet job from a wannabe reporter peddling anonymous sources who don't actually know anything."

The Daily Mail reported that Susie Wiles is plotting a post-midterms exit because she was insulted by Trump's appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.

Similarly, White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair denied the story, writing that it's "both absurd and totally false" in a post on X.

"The self-serving are working overtime today," he blasted, as other MAGA accounts echoed his denial.

Susie Wiles expected to quit as Trump's chief of staff after stinging 'insult': report

Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will soon quit her high-level White House post, insiders told the Daily Mail.

Wiles is preparing to quit because she was "vehemently" opposed to the promotion of Bill Pulte from the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to the role of acting Director of National Intelligence, three White House insiders told the Daily Mail.

She perceived it as an "insult" when Trump followed through on the Pulte promotion, and Trump had already been starting to "resent" her opposition, the Mail reported.

"She is loyal to Trump, but he is now basically saying, 'Look, Ma, you are not the boss of me,'" an insider told the Mail.

She's plotting an exit strategy as she's also dealing with health problems, according to the Mail.

"She is getting cancer treatment and is completely drained," a White House insider told the Mail. "Now Trump is taking more and more control of the White House."

According to the Mail, Wiles is expected to use the midterms as an off-ramp and could leave the White House soon after the November elections.

Wiles has been working with Trump since his first campaign in 2016 and has held the chief of staff role since his reelection, the Mail noted.

Ex-GOP operative unveils vivid vision to dump Trump's Qatari jet into the Atlantic Ocean

An ex-GOP strategist has a wild and vivid plan for one of the most controversial foreign gifts that Trump has accepted.

Steve Schmidt said on his podcast on Wednesday that he has "fantasies" about calling White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on the eve of Trump's departure from the Oval Office in 2029. He imagined explaining to her what the U.S. military is going to do with the $400 million luxury jet Trump accepted from Qatar.

"Wherever you're taking the jet, it's best you be on the ground by noon at the moment of transition," Schmidt imagines telling Wiles. "Because if you're in the air, that jet is returning to Joint Base Andrews," outside of Washington, D.C.

"It lands, you can walk off the tarmac to the gate and try to find an Uber," Schmidt said, continuing his fantasy. "That Jet is going to be taken, must be taken, seized by the U.S. military, and no f— around with it."

He said he'd like to see the U.S. military "environmentally remediate" the Qatari jet, then "put on a barge and by sometime the next day on the 21st [of January, 2029], there needs to be video of it being dumped into the Atlantic Ocean off of Mar-a-Lago."

At the bottom of the ocean, the jet can find new life as "an artificial reef" and a "national marine park," Schmidt suggested. He then encouraged Trump to use the sunken jet to "moor a low-income floating dive center there for all the Black kids in West Palm Beach to come and learn water sports."

Schmidt said that when the press asks what happened to the plane, the new administration can tell them, "It's in the ocean, and it's never coming back."

Susie Wiles cracks down as leaky staff airs White House dirty laundry to the press

A top White House official has become so frustrated with seeing details of the Trump administration leaked to the press that she's begun cracking down internally, according to a new report.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles sent an email across the Executive Office of the President telling staff to stop leaking information to the press, Politico reported on Friday.

According to Politico, the email stated that "no staff member within the Executive Office of the President is permitted to speak with members of the news media without the explicit approval of the White House Communications Office," adding that "unauthorized leaks" can get them fired.

"She was generally very frustrated with leaks," a source told Politico. The White House has been "increasingly frustrated" with staff going around "formal channels and carrying disputes or decision-making battles into the press," a source relayed to Politico.

The crackdown on leaks comes a month after Wiles privately told Cabinet members to avoid international travel and focus on Trump's agenda at home, Politico noted.

Politico also brought up comments Wiles made on Thursday, where she said if she does get into trouble in the White House, "I have a couple of friends in the reporter ranks."

Embarrassed Trump to fire gaffe-prone Cabinet member within days: White House insider

Donald Trump is preparing to fire a chief member of his Cabinet after a series of gaffes left the president embarrassed, a White House insider has claimed.

Trump recently dismissed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi in quick succession, marking a dramatic purge of Cabinet members.

FBI Director Kash Patel will be the next admin figure to be fired, according to the insider.

Susan Crabtree, a political correspondent for Real Clear Politics, shared a comment from the White House source on the possible removal of Patel, despite pressure also building for White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles following questions regarding security coming after Saturday's shooting attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

The anonymous official has claimed that Patel's firing could come within days.

Crabtree wrote, "A source familiar with the presidential security protocols said White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles oversees the Secret Service and has let [Secret Service Director Sean Curran] remain in his job despite numerous failures on his watch. 'They’re about to fire Kash and he had nothing to do with this, while Susie oversees the Secret Service, and it’s failure after failure, and she gets no blame,' the source said."

Patel filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick on April 20, 2026, following a bombshell investigative report detailing his alleged excessive drinking and erratic behavior.

The Atlantic's reporting cited multiple current and former FBI officials describing Patel's unexplained absences, panic episodes when locked out of the FBI computer system, and concerning behavior patterns that raised serious questions about his fitness for office.

'Hit the big red panic button': Trump's top aide summons GOP insiders for urgent talks

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has called together dozens of Republican strategists from across the United States for an "urgent closed-door summit" as the GOP looks ahead at potentially brutal midterms, according to reports on Monday.

The GOP operatives were reportedly aiming to prepare for the expected challenge this fall that could be a serious struggle for Republicans to maintain majority in Congress, according to The Daily Beast.

"One of Donald Trump’s closest aides just hit the big red panic button as the president’s standing with the American people plummets before this year’s midterm elections," The Beast reported.

These strategists were expected to provide insights and additional support to Republican candidates in the months ahead.

Wiles, who was Trump's former campaign manager, has reportedly tasked James Blair, her former deputy in the Trump administration, to prioritize midterm strategies for GOP candidates. The move followed a strategy session in February after the cabinet and other MAGA operatives reviewed potential strategies.

As Trump's approval rating has taken a dive and is hitting around 37 percent, there has been “growing urgency inside the White House about the midterms,” according to Politico.