S14 EP220: Hour 1 - Vanity Fair and Security Guarantees
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 878 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Susie Wiles engages in damage control for Trump while crying foul.
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| 1:12.3 | Y'all, we got to... |
| 1:13.3 | I wasn't going to start here. |
| 1:15.4 | I was not going to start the show with the idle gossip within Vanity Fair, and then |
| 1:20.4 | Susie Wiles responded to it. |
| 1:22.0 | I was like, yeah, I probably need to start with the Vanity Fair story. |
| 1:43.6 | So... I probably need to start with the Vanity Fair story. So Vanity Fair does a profile of the White House team. |
| 1:54.8 | And she essentially, they hang out with the White House team and they spend a lot of time talking to Susie Wiles. |
| 2:10.4 | And let's just say Susie Wiles now out saying they misrepresented, they distorted, on and on and on and on and on it goes. |
| 2:24.7 | This is her tweet from Susie Wiles about the article, quote, the article published early this morning is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest president, White House staff, and cabinet in history. |
| 2:32.5 | Significant context was disregarded, and much of what I and others said about the team and the president was left out of the story. |
| 2:34.4 | I assume after reading it that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president |
| 2:38.4 | and our team. The truth is that the Trump White House has already accomplished more in 11 months |
| 2:44.2 | than any other president has accomplished in eight years, and that is due to the unmatched leadership |
| 2:49.2 | and vision of President Trump, |
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