Miranda Devine: The Vanity Fair interview was a ‘targeted’ hit job on Susie Wiles, entire Trump admin
By Miranda Devine
Published Dec. 17, 2025, 10:40 p.m. ET
When it comes to hit jobs, the 10,000-word Vanity Fair spread on Susie Wiles is a classic of the genre.
Chris Whipple, a veteran journalist, producer and author with a career spanning the constellation of left-wing media — CBS’s “60 Minutes,” ABC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, Politico, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, The Washington Post — has craftily framed the president’s chief of staff in a narrative of typical Trump-derangement fantasies.
The wonder is that she let him do it.
And there’s no doubt she did.
Washington journalism veteran Mark Halperin on his 2WAY podcast says Wiles may have thought the 11 interviews Whipple said she did this year were off the record.
Journalists talk to longtime sources all the time with an implicit understanding that everything’s off the record except when you come to a mutual agreement otherwise.
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