CloseWhite House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles joined President Donald Trump on his trip to Delaware to honor two U.S. service members who were killed in an attack in Syria over the weekend.
Wiles recently made headlines after her interviews withVanity Fair provided candid insights about Trump’s inner circle, including describing the president as having “an alcoholic’s personality” and claiming Vice President JD Vance has been a “conspiracy theorist for a decade.” She has since labeled the story a “disingenuously framed hit piece.”
She accompanied the president along with other top administration officials for a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base.
Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, two Iowa National Guard soldiers, and Ayad Sakat, a U.S. civilian interpreter, were killed in Saturday’s attack near Palmyra.
Trump is returning to the White House to deliver a primetime address.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday that the president plans to “talk a lot about the accomplishments over the past 11 months, all that he's done to bring our country back to greatness, and all he continues to plan to do to continue delivering for the American people over the next three years."
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