Donald Trump chooses Susie Wiles, his campaign manager, as White House chief of staff

First decision of Republican Donald Trump, winner of the November 2024 presidential election and president-elect of the United States, before his return to the Oval Office: name the person who will occupy one of the most important positions in the US Administration: the leadership of the White House Cabinet.

Susie Wiles She is the one chosen by Trump to occupy the position. His campaign director who has returned him to the White House after defeating the Democratic Party candidate, Kamala Harris, in last Tuesday’s elections. Wiles will also be the first woman to hold the position of chief of staff.a key position in the future Trump Administration since it is in charge of coordinating the members of the presidential cabinet.

“Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history, and was an integral part of my successful 2016 and 2020 election campaigns. Susie is strong, smart, innovative, and is universally admired and respected “says the president-elect in a statement.

Trump, who has said that Wiles “will continue to work tirelessly to ‘Make America Great Again,'” said, in reference to the slogan ‘Make America Great Again (MAGA), he has maintained that “it is an honor well-deserved to have Susie as the first female chief of staff in US history” and stated that she has “no doubt that she will make” the country “feel proud.”

Susie Wiles, in green, speaks with Donald Trump at a meeting aboard ‘Trump Force One’Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

On Tuesday, when Trump offered his first election victory speech, the future president publicly thanked Wiles for his work during this time. According to the CNNSusie Wiles is credited with making this Republican’s latest campaign, his third after 2016 and 2020, the most “sophisticated and disciplined.”

A veteran of Florida politics, she ran Trump’s campaign in that state in 2016 and helped Ron DeSantis win Florida’s gubernatorial election in 2018. According to PoliticoWiles has been his de facto chief of staff for more than three years and had a lot of influence in ensuring that the Republican nominee for President in these last elections was Trump and not DeSantis.

According to the chain NBC NewsWiles, daughter of legendary NFL player Pat Summerall, is “accustomed to adversity.” In the early nineties he told his father, an alcoholic, that he was ashamed of his public behavior and the athlete admitted that the letter she sent him was decisive in his giving up drinking.

Wiles was the personal secretary of Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan when he was being investigated for his alleged ties to the mafia. The latter ended up resigning after the special prosecutor refused to charge him.

Source: www.huffingtonpost.es