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The family at the center of compromising President Trump’s first term has managed to further cement their influence in the administration of the 47th president.
As the first year of Donald Trump’s second administration approaches its end, a troubling picture is emerging, with many observers suggesting that his presidency is in disarray. The administration’s handling of numerous controversies, including the contentious Epstein Files, has raised eyebrows and sparked widespread criticism.
Initially, Trump fought to keep these files under wraps, dismissing them as a “hoax.” This stance was notably contradicted by his allies, Dan Bongino and Kash Patel, who had previously advocated for their release. The files reportedly illuminate a complex web of foreign influence, including an alleged operation involving Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which has further fueled political turmoil.
Further controversy surrounds the alleged assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the administration’s reaction to it. Meanwhile, the president has faced backlash for his criticism of political figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, who have been vocal about releasing the Epstein Files.
On the domestic front, Trump’s policies have also drawn ire. His administration’s preference for replacing American workers with H1B visa holders and the perceived prioritization of AI-driven technocratic solutions have stoked fears of American job displacement. Additionally, hosting controversial figures in the White House has added to the growing unease.
In terms of foreign policy, the administration’s actions, such as Pam Bondi’s reluctance to prosecute federal agents involved in the so-called FedSurrection and continued spending in foreign conflicts, have done little to reassure a skeptical public. Similarly, the lack of a thorough investigation into foreign involvement in the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has left many dissatisfied, with notable figures like Candace Owens stepping in to address the issue.
Even Charlie Kirk and Megyn Kelly pointed to Israel as the likeliest of culprits responsible for Epstein’s influence operation.
The question left in the minds of most thinking Americans becomes, “Why can’t this administration seem to get anything right?”
The answer lies with Donald Trump’s White House Chief-of-Staff, Susie Wiles.
The Wiles family, and now the LaCivita family are deeply connected. National File and Patrick Howley first reported on Susie’s ties to Pfizer back in 2022.
Wiles, who previously worked at Ballard Partners (now on the outs with Trump after Susie moved on to Mercury), seems to have an easy time obtaining puff pieces on her at Trump-hating rags like the New York Times, POLITICO, and CNN (this one back in 2022), got her start in the politics more than forty years ago with Jack Kemp and later the Bush family as a result of her father Pat Summerall’s connections in media at CBS.
Wiles, and her ex-husband Lanny, each managed to lever their experience into statewide and later national level political positions, and lucrative lobbying gigs.
Wiles’s former firm Mercury Public Affairs recently signed up to lobby for China.
But Wiles’s ties to China are much longer than Mercury’s recent acquisition of the communist nation as a client.
Wiles’s was co-chair of a firm which took millions of dollars from Chinese companies such as Yealink, Hikvision and Alibaba.
“Susie could put Trump away for years in just one minute of testimony to Jack Smith,” a GOP operative told The New York Post. “She’s got Trump by the balls, which means she can name her price for her loyalty and Trump can’t say no.”
Alibaba was one of Mercury’s most lucrative clients, and still pays Mercury. The Chinese government holds a minority stake in Alibaba. Mercury collected $400,000 from its work with Alibaba in a short two year span.
Mercury did business with the Chinese firm Yealink up through May of 2023.
Mercury, Wiles’s lobbying firm, also signed up a US subsidiary of Chinese firm Hikvision as one of its biggest clients, raking in more than $1.7 million, according to the money-in-politics tracker OpenSecrets.
Hikvision manufactures video surveillance equipment for the Chinese government. That technology has been used to identify, locate, and detain political opponents within China, in Xinjiang, Axios reported in April.
The Commerce Department had previously barred American companies like AT&T from engaging with Chinese firms, as in this case, in which the selling of goods or services to Hikvision was barred. Subsidiaries of Hikvision were not proscribed from doing business with American companies, however.
Chinese companies like Hikvision which were deemed national security threats had their requests for new-device authorizations rejected by the Federal Communications Commission.
It is unclear whether Mercury and Wiles continued working on behalf of Hikvision into 2023.
The nation of India has also hired Mercury, Wiles’s former lobby shop, as well as a J.D. Vance staffer, to fight its corner in D.C.
The Wiles family record of undermining Trump goes back to the first term. National File’s cousin website Big League Politics first reported on the Wiles family’s efforts to undermine the Trump administration.
In that case, Susie’s daughter Caroline Wiles, who was reportedly engaged in an affair with another Trump staffer, was working to spike the tenures of hard-line MAGA nominees at EPA and Interior.
You can read that exclusive report here below:
EXCLUSIVE: White House Leaker Identified As Trump’s Former Scheduler Caroline Wiles
by Patrick Howley
This article was originally published at Big League Politics in May of 2018.
WASHINGTON — Caroline Wiles, President Donald Trump’s original White House scheduler, has been identified as a leaker involved in the scheme to knock out Cabinet members Scott Pruitt and Ryan Zinke.
Big League Politics has learned that Wiles worked with anti-Scott Pruitt EPA leaker Kevin Chmielewski, who was fired from the Trump administration for driving around a fake police car in traffic.
Wiles and Chmielewski worked together in Florida governor Rick Scott’s office. Chmielewski was the advance man for Paul Manafort on sketchy Ukraine trips. His plot was exposed when one of his comrades, Alex Hinson in the Department of the Interior, lost his government cell phone, after which his personal cell phone became subject to federal government review.
Wiles was dismissed by the White House in February shortly after taking office, according to the Fox affiliate in Jacksonville, because she failed an FBI background check. Caroline Wiles is the daughter of Trump campaign strategist (and now Chief of Staff) Susie Wiles.
Sources further confirmed to Big League Politics that the impression within the White House that Caroline Wiles was having an affair with Rick Gates, the Trump campaign adviser who was forced to plead guilty in the Robert Mueller case. Gates agreed to “cooperate.”
Wiles is identified as an engineer of a misleading Atlantic piece by Elaina Plott claiming that Michael Abboud, an EPA official close to Pruitt, was responsible for negative leaks against Zinke. It was a head fake to distract attention from the real conspirators, according to sources close to the EPA.
The real conspirators: Kevin Chmielewski, Caroline Wiles of the White House personnel office, and Alex Hinson at the Department of the Interior (who is now said to be living with his parents as Ryan Zinke tries to figure out what to do about the young man’s leaking).
The so-called “whistleblower” in the now-fading Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) flap is actually a disgruntled employee who was fired for cause — being AWOL from his EPA post without clearance from his agency supervisors, according to multiple sources in and near the Trump administration.
The EPA media circus over the last weeks have stemmed from allegations made by former Deputy of Chief of Staff for operations, Kevin Chmielewski, a man whose behavior and background portended a short career as a presidential appointee.
The reasons for the media maelstrom seem much clearer given recent revelations about Chmielewski.
Upon being fired, Kevin Chmielewski threatened to go public with allegations against EPA chief Scott Pruitt, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.
