The winner of the elections in the United States, Republican Donald Trump, announced this Thursday that Susie Wiles, the shadow director of his campaign, will be his chief of staff in the White House for his second term, which will begin on January 20 of 2025.
Wiles will be the first female chief of staff, one of the most important positions in the US Administration, which is responsible for coordinating the members of the presidential cabinet.
This is the first appointment that Trump has announced since he defeated the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, in last Tuesday’s elections.
“Susie Wiles helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history and was an integral part of my successful 2016 and 2020 campaigns,” Trump said in a statement.
A “strong, intelligent, innovative and universally admired and respected” woman
The New York mogul described Wiles as a “strong, intelligent, innovative and universally admired and respected” woman.
“It is a well-deserved honor to have Susie as the first female chief of staff in American history. I have no doubt that he will make our country proud,” he declared.
Donald Trump and Susie Wiles, this past Wednesday in West Palm Beach
On Tuesday, when Trump offered his first election victory speech, the future president publicly thanked Wiles for his work during this time.
According to CNN, 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.
He had a lot of weight when it came to getting Trump to be the nominee.
According to Politico, Wiles 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 NBC News, Wiles, daughter of legendary NFL player Pat Summerall, is “accustomed to adversity.”
Former President Donald Trump attends a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Jets with senior campaign consultant Susie Wiles
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.lavanguardia.com
