Harry Litman - Susie Wiles's Inadvertent Indictment of Trump
Chris Whipple’s two-part Vanity Fair interview with Susie Wiles is a journalistic tour de force: roughly 30,000 words drawn from months of on-the-record conversations with the staffer who knows Donald Trump best and whom he most trusts.
Much of the extended account is designed to present Wiles as she sees herself: the steady hand, the grown-up in the room, the indispensable manager of a volatile president.
But it is not the bulk of this extraordinary reporting—or the sympathetic accounts of the president—that will endure.
What will be most remembered is a far smaller but indelible fraction of the interviews in which Wiles offers a series of unguarded, almost casual admissions about Trump that together amount to one of the most damning insider portraits of a presidency ever given. Not from a disgruntled former aide, but from Trump’s closest staffer—someone who admires him, facilitates him, and believes she has served, and is still serving him, well.
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/suzie-wiless-inadvertent-indictment