National File founder and publisher Noel Fritsch is warning that veteran GOP operative Susie Wiles has become, in his words, “arguably the most destructive force inside the Trump administration,” acting as a gatekeeper who keeps MAGA from ever fully becoming America First.

In a comprehensive conversation with Clayton Morris, host of Redacted, Fritsch painted a vivid picture of Susie Wiles, describing her as the spearhead of a deeply embedded Bush-era corporate lobbying network within Donald Trump’s administration. Fritsch likens her influence to a “Trojan horse,” suggesting she oversees what he terms a “reign of terror” within the White House.

Lobbyist roots and corporate cash

Fritsch detailed Wiles’s ascent from the Bush administration and the Department of Labor to influential K Street firms such as Ballard Partners and Mercury Public Affairs. He highlighted her appearance on the same press release as Pfizer’s chief federal lobbyist as a notable point in her career.

During the Trump administration, according to Fritsch, Ballard was financially thriving through associations with big tech, the oil industry, foreign governments, and other corporate entities. He raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest due to Wiles’s close connection to Trump, arguing that access seemed to be contingent on financial contributions. Fritsch asserted, “If you want access, it’s pay to play,” emphasizing, “corporates are buying our country, and individuals like Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita are facilitating this sale.”

Fritsch also drew attention to the firms’ lobbying connections with Chinese interests, alleging that both Ballard and Mercury handled accounts for companies like Hikvision and Alibaba. He claimed, “If you’re doing business in China, you are a state entity in China, 100%.”

He framed this scenario as part of a larger “McKinsey model,” where American corporations, in their pursuit of the lucrative Chinese market, become entangled with entities linked to Beijing. This, he noted, is particularly contradictory given Trump’s campaign rhetoric of adopting a tougher stance against China.

Gatekeeping MAGA for the intel state

Inside the Trump world, Fritsch portrays Wiles as a loyal functionary of the old Bush‑Cheney order and the intelligence community, not of the populist movement that elected Trump. “She’s got like an army of gatekeepers” at agencies like HHS and FDA, he says, whose job is to install “oligarch funded, oligarch propped up functionaries, technocrats into the positions.”

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“She was a huge lobbyist and negotiated all of Pfizer’s demands during Covid.”

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He links Wiles’s media‑world lineage through her father, longtime CBS sportscaster Pat Summerall, to the history of Operation Mockingbird and what he calls a “public‑private partnership between our intelligence community and television” designed to “weaponize information against the populace” and blunt populism.

That gatekeeping, Fritsch argues, also explains why independent, America First media outlets are frozen out while Fox News and other corporate platforms are favored. He says Fox’s role is “basically to represent to the base that Trump is doing MAGA stuff” and to “prevent the internal house cleaning that needs to happen on the Republican side.”

According to Fritsch, the same forces sidelining independent media are using Wiles and LaCivita to wage “war with the America First movement,” backing entrenched establishment incumbents like Sen. Lindsey Graham while undercutting original MAGA candidates who challenged the GOP old guard.

‘Reign of terror’ and wheels coming off

Fritsch says insiders know the situation is deteriorating. “I happen to know for a fact that the people at the White House are aware that the wheels are falling off,” he tells Morris, adding that staff have been “calling in people” more aligned with grassroots America First positions to help on messaging.

He doubts, however, whether those voices can break through “that Bush machine inside there,” with Wiles still controlling access and donor relationships.

He describes today’s GOP‑and‑consultant complex as a “shakedown” driven by stateless billionaire oligarchs, the military‑industrial complex, and Big Pharma, pointing to the COVID‑era Pfizer lobbying nexus as a prime example.

In his telling, ordinary Americans staring at “an eight‑buck gallon of milk” are feeling the squeeze of an international “racketeering operation” run through Washington and New York, while operatives like Wiles keep corporate interests “with extreme proximity to the Oval Office.”

Fixing the House and Senate to rein in intel power

National File publisher Noel Fritsch told @ClaytonMorris that true reform in America requires restoring congressional oversight over powerful entities.

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Despite his bleak diagnosis, Fritsch puts heavy emphasis on a legislative path forward. “The number one way that we are going to fix this country is by fixing the House and fixing the Senate so that they can actually hold the intel community to account,” he says.

He argues that today’s intelligence apparatus effectively “runs” both chambers through the Senate and House intelligence committees, using secrecy and classification to keep elected members in the dark while blocking real oversight on scandals ranging from overseas color revolutions to the Epstein files.

Fritsch insists that true reform requires removing intel‑aligned figures like Lindsey Graham from key roles and replacing them with representatives “most directly answerable to the people.” “You can’t have people like Lindsey Graham engaging in the oversight role of the intel community when he is literally a member of the intel community,” he says, warning that without a serious course correction, technocratic elites will continue to strip Americans of “their birthright of being American citizens.”

Fritsch closes by urging viewers to understand the full ecosystem of corporate lobbyists, media cut‑outs and intelligence operatives surrounding the White House — and to support independent outlets willing to name names. Readers are encouraged to watch the full interview to see his argument in context and hear the complete exchange with Clayton Morris.

Watch the full episode from Redacted: