The series of interviews with White House Chief-of-Staff Susie Wiles that dropped in two parts on Tuesday, via Vanity Fair, were full of news. I wrote about some of the news she made in my last post.
But some other nuggets were significant, too. For one, Wiles shoved Vice President JD Vance under the bus and rolled it over him. She called him “a conspiracy theorist for a decade” who converted from Never Trumper to Trump supporter in a “sort of political” shift. That was unlike Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to Wiles.
From Part 2:
I asked Wiles about the remarkable 180-degree conversion of the secretary of state and the vice president from fierce Trump critics to high-ranking acolytes—and heirs apparent. Trump has floated a Vance-Rubio GOP presidential ticket in 2028. Rubio’s transformation was ideological and principled, she said: “Marco was not the sort of person that would violate his principles. He just won’t. And so he had to get there.” By contrast, she suggested, Vance had other motivations. “His conversion came when he was running for the Senate. And I think his conversion was a little bit more, sort of political.”
