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   From: bks@panix.com   
      
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    | In a normal presidency, the interviews that White House   
    | Chief of Staff Susie Wiles gave to Vanity Fair would   
    | trigger her resignation, maybe even the president's   
    | impeachment. She admitted that President Donald Trump   
    | employs prosecutorial power for "score settling," called   
    | Budget Director Russell Vought "a right-wing absolute   
    | zealot," described Vice President J. D. Vance as "a   
    | conspiracy theorist for a decade," and attributed Elon   
    | Musk's erratic style in gutting federal agencies to his   
    | "avowed ketamine" use.   
    |   
    | Yet no one on the right is calling for anyone to resign, or   
    | even for a congressional investigation into these   
    | allegations. That is not because Wiles--who is credited   
    | with largely masterminding Trump's victorious presidential   
    | campaign--lacks credibility, nor is it because she has   
    | denied these comments (she has accused the magazine of   
    | taking her words out of context, which is what people say   
    | when they know they were recorded). It is simply because   
    | these quotes, while dire, are also unsurprising. Wiles did   
    | not say anything that Republicans didn't already know. Her   
    | error lay in the breach between what Trump's supporters   
    | understand and what they are permitted to say.   
    | ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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