When it comes to hit jobs, the 10,000-word Vanity Fair spread on Susie Wiles is a classic of the genre.
President Trump and the administration quickly circled the wagons around Susie Wiles and sang her praises, lauding her loyalty and leadership, writes columnist Miranda Devine.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.
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.Miranda Devine: Erika Kirk tormented by vile trolls since Charlie’s assassinationIn an industry where trust is everything, burning a source by revealing off-the-record confidences is career-limiting to say the least., the short-lived West Coast correspondent for Vanity Fair, has coined the term “Michael Wolffing it,” meaning telling a source everything is off the record and printing it anyway. Trump biographer Wolff got rich burning sources and making up stories, but nobody buys his books or believes what he says anymore. Nuzzi’s journalistic career is over — and not just for having affairs with the politicians she covers. Wiles did not respond to The Post’s questions about whether she thought her conversations with Whipple were off the record — which is an answer in itself.On CNN he responded to Wiles furious statement that he had taken her out of context with a knowing smirk: “The giveaway, when you’re a journalist and you hear your target, the subject . . . talking about things like ‘context’ and ‘omissions,’ you know you’re on the right track because there isn’t a single fact or a single assertion that they’ve challenged in the piece.” No surprise that he calls Wiles the “target,” which was probably not evident in their warm interactions, which he mentions throughout the piece as evidence of their intimacy.Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on ‘Pod Force One.’There are clandestine sandwich lunches together in her office at the White House: “ ‘They don’t know what I’m doing,” she said, motioning toward the Oval, and laughed out loud.”Sadly, she was wrong, because Whipple planted a series of mini-IEDs for her boss and his team to navigate. First was how he weaved Democrat lies in between her quotes to try to make her complicit, such as that President Trump was usingin the same way that Hitler used the Reichstag fire, and “nine people ultimately died” in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.While the saucy lines caused a lot of buzz in Washington, Trump and the administration quickly circled the wagons around Wiles and sang her praises, lauding her loyalty and leadership. Her comment about Trump having an “alcoholic’s personality” was a compliment that came from personal experience, and the president knows it. Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality operates a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.” As she told me on Pod Force One over the summer, her father, the late NFL player and then broadcaster, was a recovering alcoholic and she recognized a similarity with Trump: “The competitiveness is the biggest thing . . . It came from very different beginnings, both of them, but the will to succeed lives large in Donald Trump, and it did my dad, too.” Trump agreed, telling The Post: “She’s right . . . I don’t drink alcohol . . . but I’ve often said that if I did, I’d have a very good chance of being an alcoholic. I have said that many times about myself . . . It’s a very and addictive-type personality.”His jolly response to a journalist’s question was a deadly barb cloaked in a joke. “Sometimes I’m a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true,” he said.Karoline Leavitt were interviewed for Vanity Fair’s hit piece, and posed for the most unflattering photos that could possibly be taken of naturally attractive people.Extreme closeups that show every pore, blemish and wrinkle, and look more like mug shots than the flattering glamorous portraits we saw for Biden staffers — like Leavitt’s hopeless predecessorHe has posted a video clip of someone saying of his Vanity Fair photos: “He didn’t make them look ugly. They are ugly.”walking down the big boy stairs of Air Force One with the caption: “We are about to miss this guy. Buckle up. See you in a week. I’m going dark . . .”It’s probably understandable that Wiles talked to Whipple under the pretext of updating his best-selling 2017 book about presidential chiefs of staff with a pen portrait of the first woman in the role and the most enigmatic and potentially most consequential of all.But the timing, in Vanity Fair’s January issue launching a difficult midterm year and the magazine’s foreboding photographs and layout, could not be worse. The first lady’s lavish fly-on-the-wall Amazon documentary film “Melania,” which also comes out in January, is another wild card that may create vulnerabilities for Trump’s enemies to exploit.Trump announces service members will get $1,776 'warrior dividend' for Christmas
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