Trump chief Susie Wiles talks Epstein, tariffs, Musk, Bondi

President Donald Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality” and has engaged in legal “retribution” against his enemies since his return to office, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said in a remarkably candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday.

Wiles said in March that she and Trump had a “loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over.”

Around five months later, she initially denied that Trump was “on a retribution tour,” contending that he was motivated by getting “people that have done bad things” out of the government.

But she admitted, “In some cases, it may look like retribution. And there may be an element of that from time to time.”

And she said that the administration’s attempted prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James — who helmed a business fraud case against Trump and was seen as one of his most reviled political foes — “might be the one retribution.”

The case against James on mortgage fraud-related charges was dismissed in November, after a judge ruled Trump’s pick of prosecutor was invalidly appointed. The Department of Justice has so far failed to convince subsequent grand juries to re-indict her.

Wiles’ eyebrow-raising remarks came during 11 interviews with author Chris Whipple, conducted over the course of Trump’s first year back in the White House.

Wiles, who enjoys unparalleled influence and power in Trump’s orbit, mostly operates behind the scenes. But in the conversations with Whipple, she offered blunt descriptions, and occasionally criticism, of many of the administration’s highest-profile officials.

Those officials include Trump himself.

Wiles — whose father, former New York Giants kicker Pat Summerall, is described as an alcoholic and an absentee parent — said her difficult upbringing made her “a little bit of an expert in big personalities.”

Trump does not drink, but he has “an alcoholic’s personality” in that he “operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do,” Wiles told Whipple. “Nothing, zero, nothing.”

She also spoke about the behind-the-scenes maneuvering behind some of Trump’s biggest agenda items, including his global “reciprocal” tariff policy.

The early April tariff rollout, which Trump touted as America’s “Liberation Day,” was the product of what Wiles described as a divided White House that could not agree on the policy’s impact.

“So much thinking out loud is what I would call it,” Wiles said in an interview at the time, recalling that she urged advisers who doubted the tariff plans to get on board, but “they couldn’t get there.”

Wiles pushed back on Vanity Fair’s reporting in an X post later Tuesday morning, calling it “a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”

“Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the President was left out of the story. I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an…