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They can learn to make themselves invaluable, or invisible — and when to be the former, and when to be the latter.
The article notes how the children of alcoholics often learn how to manage chaotic situations and people
My children grew up without me
Summerall, who died in 2013, wrote in his memoir about his drinking and the extra-marital affair that led to his divorce from Wiles' mother and admitted
On the final leg, I got sick and three times went to the airplane's toilet to throw up,
Summerall said
My thirst for alcohol was replaced by a thirst for knowledge about faith and God. I began reading the Bible regularly at the Betty Ford treatment center, and it became a part of my daily life,
he wrote in his autobiographyDad, the few times we’ve been out in public together recently, I’ve been ashamed we shared the same last name,
Wiles said in a letter that was read during the intervention, according to Summerall’s 2006 autobiography, ... On and Off the Air."I found myself bleeding to death and my life passing before my eyes in strange blurs,
he told the outletI figured everybody got up at 10 every morning and had a beer,
he saidThe organization of the campaign, and the fact that he stuck with the leadership team all the way through, I think, is a testament to just what a great job that she did,
Jennings said
There is nobody, I think, that has the wealth of information that she does,
added Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio in Politico's report
Certainly, she's one of the most consequential people in American politics right now,
former Florida GOP Congressman Carlos Curbelo told Politico
Susie Wiles becoming Chief of Staff is MASSIVE, ... She risked her entire political career and potentially becoming a victim of the Biden-Harris lawfare regime for her country. A true patriot. This is a GREAT move for MAGA and America."
Kirk wrote to X
Another strong, intelligent woman working with President Trump to make America great!"
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst also mocked Cuban's statement, writing on X in response to Wiles' appointmentBeing the first female chief of staff in the White House, I think is a huge marker for both President Trump and the Republican Party, so, I think ... if she can bring the kind of discipline and organization to the White House that she just ran this campaign with, Donald Trump has got a really good chance to get off to a great start and begin achieving objectives right out the way,
he addedSusie Wiles is way too smart of a human being and way too sophisticated a political operator to not understand,
Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based Democratic pollster and MSNBC analyst, told Politico
If Donald Trump is going to be President, I want Susie Wiles involved.”
Former Florida congressman Carlos Curbelo sums up the mood among many Republicans
She has to interact with people who think [the election was stolen], and people who don’t,
political strategist Michael Caputo told CNNI have rarely met someone with her instincts for politics and policy and where they intersect,
Delaney previously said
She’s purely focused on doing whatever she can for my father,
Donald Trump Jnr previously said of WilesI come from a very traditional background,
she once told PoliticoWiles and Trump are loyal to each other because, after DeSantis, Trump brought Susie back from the political dead,
a source told the Hill in 2022