Of all the blunt assessments White House chief of staff Susie Wiles shared with Vanity Fair over the past year, perhaps her sharpest words were aimed at Attorney General Pam Bondi.
In remarks the magazine published Tuesday, Wiles said that Bondi “completely whiffed” in her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files — an issue that has animated many of President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters and generated months of political headaches for the White House.
Bondi, however, quickly stood by her “dear friend” and fellow Floridian, joining others in publicly closing ranks and instead directing criticism at the messenger.
“Any attempt to divide this administration will fail,” Bondi wrote on social media, referring to the Vanity Fair article.
Her response mirrored the outpouring of support for Wiles from Trump’s top aides, Cabinet officials and some of his staunchest online protecters in the hours after the story sent Washington abuzz. The full-throated defense of the nation’s first female chief of staff masked a stunned White House inner circle left aghast by what some saw as a significant blunder from a typically low-profile leader many entrusted to clean up messes, not make them.
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