Susie Wiles has a plan ready to blame Pete Hegseth’s war for the midterm loss.
Wiles had booked an offsite meeting at the presidential retreat for Saturday, November 7, inviting White House officials and aides considered close to her, according to reports. The Daily Mail report said that Wiles’ allies had spent the days following the November 3 elections trying to make Hegseth’s involvement in the conflict the public explanation for the party’s losses. However, the meeting was delayed and then cancelled after Trump decided to replace her, Daily Mail reported.
One such account said Trump was yelling at Susie Wiles and continued yelling until she left the room, while another says Trump would never do that to Susie. One account says Susie Wiles did not want to continue at the hectic job for long as she just recovered from breast cancer, while another says she had a Camp David plot up her sleeve to save her job. The war had contributed to rising living costs, including higher petrol prices, the report said. A source close to Trump alleged that the president had repeatedly been told by his advisers that Wiles’ team was leaking stories about Hegseth to the media to divert attention from her own position. “I think eventually enough people talked to him that he got very upset,” the source said. The report said a series of headlines emerged after the midterms about Trump’s alleged anger with Hegseth, as the president sought advice from close advisers on whether to remove the defence secretary. A former Trump official also accused Wiles of leaking information, calling her “a huge f***ing leaker”.
Several narratives, some contradictory, have filled the absence of any clear explanation behind Susie Wiles being replaced by Stephen Miller within three days of the Republican Party’s midterm loss — and all of them are dramatic. Susie Wiles had allegedly planned a behind-the-scenes meeting at Camp David with her loyalists in a last-ditch attempt to retain her position, even as the president was preparing to replace her with Stephen Miller. The president was scheduled to be in Florida on Saturday.