Vanity Fair’s Chris Whipple explains the key takeaways on the Epstein files from his interview with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, including his reporting that Wiles may have underestimated the full extent of the sandal.

In strikingly candid interviews with Vanity Fair, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles opened up about Trump and his Cabinet over the first year of his 2nd term.

Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s understated but influential chief of staff, criticized Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and offered an unvarnished take on her boss and those in his orbit in interviews published Tuesday in Vanity Fair that sent the West Wing into damage control.

Chief of Staff Susie Wiles cited administration missteps on immigration and the Jeffrey Epstein case and acknowledged President Trump's retribution campaign.

She said that the witness list, or the client list, was on her desk. There is no client list, and it sure as hell wasn’t on her desk,” White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said.

"Wiles said that Trump 'was on [Epstein’s] plane…he’s on the manifest. They were, you know, sort of young, single, whatever—I know it’s a passé word but sort of young, single playboys together.'"

Chief of staff candidly assesses the president and his team to Vanity Fair, saying Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality,” Bondi “whiffed” on the Epstein files and Vance’s pro-Trump makeover was “political.

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.