President Donald Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality” and has engaged in legal “retribution” against his enemies since his return to office, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said in a remarkably candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.
Wiles said in March that she and Trump had a “loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over.”
Around five months later, she initially denied that Trump was “on a retribution tour,” contending that he was motivated by getting “people that have done bad things” out of the government.
But she admitted, “In some cases, it may look like retribution. And there may be an element of that from time to time.”
And she said that the administration’s attempted prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James — who helmed a business fraud case against Trump and was seen as one of his most reviled political foes — “might be the one retribution.”
