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CNN analyst gobsmacked as White House aide hands Trump’s top foes a ‘gift’

A political commentator was stunned on Tuesday night after hearing about a series of interviews a Trump administration official gave to Vanity Fair. Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, sat for 11 interviews with the outlet over several months. The article Vanity Fair published on Tuesday included comments from Wiles calling officials like OMB Director Russ Vought a “zealot” and saying Trump is only pursuing charges against Letitia James and James Comey as “retribution.” CNN political commentator Xochitl Hinojosa discussed the revelations on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Tuesday night. “The whole thing is pretty stunning,” Hinojosa said. “There was a comfort level . that some officials have when they leave the administration, and they’re potentially sitting down for a book or something like that. You tend to find that that’s when you get your sort of juiciest moments, when there’s the end of an administration, like the Biden administration. That’s when we saw everybody wanted to talk, everybody wanted to say their side of the story. But she is currently sitting at the White House.” Hinojosa added that Wiles’s comments could hinder the Trump administration’s efforts to prosecute the president’s foes. “I’ll also say this is a gift to Tish James,” she said. “This is a gift to Comey. This is a gift to potentially Adam Schiff if they want to go ahead and bring charges later.”.