New reports indicate that Donald Trump shared a classified map with Susie Wiles, a longtime Florida Republican operative who is now running his 2024 presidential campaign — and that she has repeatedly met with special counsel Jack Smith as he continues the criminal investigation into the former president's stash of defense secrets at Mar-a-Lago. Additional reporting indicates that Wiles is linked to a Chinese lobbying firm.
Wiles is not named in Smith's indictment, and it is not clear yet whether and to what extent Wiles is cooperating with the probe. But if she does cooperate extensively, former White House ethics czar Norm Eisen told CNN on Thursday, she could end up being one of his best possible witnesses.
"His campaign aide, how potentially important as a witness would she be?" asked anchor Wolf Blizter.
"She's very important because you want to build a case," said Eisen. "It's persuasive to a jury. If you have those close to the defendant who have every incentive to support the defendant, and yet they have to tell the truth."
There's another reason Wiles would be so important, Eisen continued: "To bring the this to life for a jury, you don't simply want it to be about documents in a room, as terrible as it is. We both had our nation's highest security clearances. As inconceivable as it is as boxes of these documents stored in ballrooms and bathrooms, but showing them to people. The drama of that illustrates the damage here to our national security."
For those reasons, Eisen added, Wiles could be the most "critically important witness in front of us."
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