’You're Wrong' With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 179: Vanity (Un)Fair
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief of the Federalist and |
| 0:21.0 | David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner. |
| 0:24.8 | Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email the show, please do so at radio at thefederalist.com. |
| 0:30.7 | We'd like to hear from you. |
| 0:33.7 | Molly, let's start this week by talking about what is a huge story in DC. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm not sure how much normal people care about it, but, you know, it's definitely worthwhile to talk about. |
| 0:45.8 | Vanity Fair ran a, I think it's a two-part piece we've only seen part one of it. |
| 0:52.4 | It involves interviews with White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles. |
| 0:59.1 | I assume you have a reaction to people doing interviews with Vanity Fair who shouldn't be doing them. |
| 1:07.9 | Yeah, I do. |
| 1:08.7 | And I think people know who Susie Wiles is. |
| 1:10.8 | She's frequently Trump will talk about. Yeah, I do. And I think people know who Susie Wiles is. |
| 1:16.2 | She's frequently Trump will talk about how awesome she is. And she'll, she's lauded at these, you know, rallies and things like that. |
| 1:21.9 | So I think people understand that Susie has been very close to the Trump team for, you know, at least five years. |
| 1:30.1 | You could look at it more. You know, she's, she kind of came from DeSantis World. |
| 1:34.8 | Well, she's, she's a really remarkable political consultant and advisor. And a lot of what has |
| 1:43.2 | gone well in the second Trump term has been attributed to Susie |
| 1:46.8 | Wiles. She this the first Trump term was just constantly leaking people leaving, you know, |
| 1:56.6 | just lots of turnover and lots of drama. And this really hasn't been and a lot of it is that |
| 2:03.1 | people fear in a good way susie wiles and they know that she does not tolerate silliness and so yeah |
| 2:09.4 | it was absolutely shocking in my from my perspective to learn that she had opened the kimono like 11 times to a left-wing reporter. |
| 2:23.8 | And the story yesterday was that he wrote the first of a two-part series, just absolutely lambasting her and trying to like, know gin up division between her and the entire |
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