Ex-RFK Jr. Aide Says Susie Wiles Blocked MAHA, Helped Lobbyists
The Facts
- Former Health and Human Services adviser Calley Means told Joe Rogan on Friday that a group within the Trump administration was "antagonistic to what people voted for." The interview aired hours before President Donald Trump announced that Stephen Miller would replace Susie Wiles as chief of staff.
- Means alleged that Wiles repeatedly told him the administration needed money for the midterms and quoted her as saying, "I need the money from the sugar people to win the midterms," after he pushed a policy on sugar in children's diets.
- In the interview, Means named pollster Tony Fabrizio, Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair and Trump campaign advisor Chris LaCivita among the country's most powerful people, saying Fabrizio advised against school lunch reform and an ultra-processed food definition while being paid by Pepsi.
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The Spin
Government-critical narrative
Selling access to the Oval Office is the ugliest kind of corruption, and a chief of staff who values donor cash over kids' health has no business near the West Wing. When special interests can hire a family member and watch enforcement stall, the whole MAHA agenda voters demanded gets strangled. Trump was elected to promote and defend his voters' wishes, but his deputies have quietly restored the old pay-for-play status quo.
Pro-government narrative
Means pulling James Blair, who's long been on the front lines of the health debate, into this shows he's grasping at straws. The Trump administration, especially its health department, has fought an entrenched bureaucracy since entering office, and attacks like this only strengthen the enemy. Trump's HHS was appointed to secure as many wins as possible against the establishment, not check off everything Calley Means wants.
