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White House Rallies Around Susie Wiles After Interview

December 17, 2025 at 6:19 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Playbook: “The reaction yesterday was telling in itself. This was a full rally-around-the-flag moment for Wiles’ team, with Trump himself plus key surrogates including Vance, Leavitt and Donald Trump Jr. all fanning out to deliver highly supportive messages to the media. Bondi called Wiles a ‘dear friend.’ Plenty of others weighed in.”

“The message was crystal clear: Support for Wiles is rock solid. That’s indicative of the fact Trump is unbothered by any of this. He knows how central Wiles is to the success of this project. And he knows instinctively that — gripped as we are inside the Beltway by a glimpse of the real Susie Wiles — this is not a story that’s going to move markets elsewhere.”

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