Wiles’s interview was an attempt to put Trump administration ‘in the proper light’: Joe Concha

Published December 17, 2025 1:14pm ET



Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha defended White House chief of staff Susie Wiles’s attempt to control the “narrative” by interviewing with Vanity Fair.

Wiles slammed the article, published Tuesday, as a “disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.” Concha understood Wiles’s possible reasoning behind meeting the outlet 11 different times to speak with her over the course of this year.

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