Trump picks Susan Wiles as White House chief of staff

I said, 'I don't want this to continue.' I think it seriously will damage our republic and who among that group can really have the fortitude to shift what I've seen happening over all these years

Wiles told the paper

As a card-carrying member of the G.O.P. establishment, many thought my full-throated endorsement of the Trump candidacy was ill advised — even crazy,

Wiles told the New York Times in a rare public statement

I’ve described her as a political savant — just otherworldly sort of political instincts,

he said

The clown car can’t come into the White House at will,

the source said

Dad, the few times we’ve been out in public together recently, I’ve been ashamed we shared the same last name,

Wiles said in a letter that was read during the intervention, according to Summerall’s 2006 autobiography, ... On and Off the Air."

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On the final leg, I got sick and three times went to the airplane's toilet to throw up,

Summerall said

My thirst for alcohol was replaced by a thirst for knowledge about faith and God. I began reading the Bible regularly at the Betty Ford treatment center, and it became a part of my daily life,

he wrote in his autobiography

I found myself bleeding to death and my life passing before my eyes in strange blurs,

he told the outlet

I figured everybody got up at 10 every morning and had a beer,

he said

Let me also express my tremendous appreciation for Susie [Wiles] and Chris [LaCivita] on the job you did. Susie, come, Susie,

he said

She can manage really any ego that comes her way,

LaCivita said

Susie is just functionally built differently because she has that rare commodity to be able to work on so many different important issues simultaneously,

LaCivita told The Associated Press

The most important commodity in politics is honesty and loyalty and Susie has both in copious amounts."

He added

I’m allowed to do that, aren’t I, Susan Wiles?”

he mused

On the plus side, she’s shown that she can manage Trump, that she works with him and can sometimes tell him hard truths, and that’s really important,

said Whipple

She’s incredible. Incredible,

he said at a Milwaukee rally earlier this month

Susie is tough, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected. Susie will continue to work tirelessly to Make America Great Again,

he added

If she wants it, it’s hers,

said an adviser familiar with the discussions

As he chooses the best people to join his team and best policies to pursue, his transition team will ensure the implementation of President Trump's common sense agenda starting on Day 1,

said the two advisers tapped to lead his transition, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, and Linda McMahon, a Cabinet member during the first Trump administration and business executive

She has commanded a ton of respect amongst the staff, as well as loyalty. She doesn’t play games. And she means what she says: On the campaign, she said we are checking egos at the door and held everyone to it,

said one campaign official, who, like others in this piece, was granted anonymity to speak candidly or because they were not authorized to speak on the record