‘Reign of Terror’: Noel Fritsch Says Susie Wiles Is Running a Bush-Era Shakedown Inside the Trump White House

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National File founder and publisher Noel Fritsch is warning that veteran GOP operative Susie Wiles has become, in his words, “arguably the most destructive force inside the Trump administration,” acting as a gatekeeper who keeps MAGA from ever fully becoming America First.

In a wide‑ranging interview with Redacted host Clayton Morris, Fritsch describes Wiles as the tip of a Bush‑era, corporate‑lobby machine that has burrowed into Trump’s operation “like a Trojan horse” and is now presiding over what he calls a “reign of terror” inside the White House.

Lobbyist roots and corporate cash

Fritsch traces Wiles’s rise from Bush‑world and the Department of Labor through powerhouse K Street firms Ballard Partners and Mercury Public Affairs, where he notes she landed “on the same press release” as Pfizer’s top federal lobbyist.

He argues that during the Trump years, Ballard was “raking in the cash” from big tech, big oil, foreign governments and other corporate clients, and that Wiles’s proximity to Trump raises obvious conflict‑of‑interest questions. “If you want access, it’s pay to play,” Fritsch says, adding that “corporates are buying our country and people like Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita are the ones selling us out.”

Those lobbying ties, he says, extend to Chinese interests. Fritsch alleges that Ballard and Mercury worked accounts for companies such as Hikvision and Alibaba, and that “if you’re doing business in China, you are a state entity in China, 100%.”

He calls it part of a broader “McKinsey model” in which U.S. corporations chase the Chinese market and end up entangled with Beijing‑linked entities, even as Trump campaigned on taking a harder line against China.

Gatekeeping MAGA for the intel state

Inside the Trump world, Fritsch portrays Wiles as a loyal functionary of the old Bush‑Cheney order and the intelligence community, not of the populist movement that elected Trump. “She’s got like an army of gatekeepers” at agencies like HHS and FDA, he says, whose job is to install “oligarch funded, oligarch propped up functionaries, technocrats into the positions.”

He links Wiles’s media‑world lineage through her father, longtime CBS sportscaster Pat Summerall, to the history of Operation Mockingbird and what he calls a “public‑private partnership between our intelligence community and television” designed to “weaponize information against the populace” and blunt populism.

That gatekeeping, Fritsch argues, also explains why independent, America First media outlets are frozen out while Fox News and other corporate platforms are favored. He says Fox’s role is “basically to represent to the base that Trump is doing MAGA stuff” and to “prevent the internal house cleaning that needs to happen on the Republican side.”

According to Fritsch, the same forces sidelining independent media are using Wiles and LaCivita to wage “war with the America First movement,” backing entrenched establishment incumbents like Sen. Lindsey Graham while undercutting original MAGA candidates who challenged the GOP old guard.

‘Reign of terror’ and wheels coming off

Fritsch says insiders know the situation is deteriorating. “I happen to know for a fact that the people at the White House are aware that the wheels are falling off,” he tells Morris, adding that staff have been “calling in people” more aligned with grassroots America First positions to help on messaging.

He doubts, however, whether those voices can break through “that Bush machine inside there,” with Wiles still controlling access and donor relationships.

He describes today’s GOP‑and‑consultant complex as a “shakedown” driven by stateless billionaire oligarchs, the military‑industrial complex, and Big Pharma, pointing to the COVID‑era Pfizer lobbying nexus as a prime example.

In his telling, ordinary Americans staring at “an eight‑buck gallon of milk” are feeling the squeeze of an international “racketeering operation” run through Washington and New York, while operatives like Wiles keep corporate interests “with extreme proximity to the Oval Office.”

Fixing the House and Senate to rein in intel power

Despite his bleak diagnosis, Fritsch puts heavy emphasis on a legislative path forward. “The number one way that we are going to fix this country is by fixing the House and fixing the Senate so that they can actually hold the intel community to account,” he says.

He argues that today’s intelligence apparatus effectively “runs” both chambers through the Senate and House intelligence committees, using secrecy and classification to keep elected members in the dark while blocking real oversight on scandals ranging from overseas color revolutions to the Epstein files.

Fritsch insists that true reform requires removing intel‑aligned figures like Lindsey Graham from key roles and replacing them with representatives “most directly answerable to the people.” “You can’t have people like Lindsey Graham engaging in the oversight role of the intel community when he is literally a member of the intel community,” he says, warning that without a serious course correction, technocratic elites will continue to strip Americans of “their birthright of being American citizens.”

Fritsch closes by urging viewers to understand the full ecosystem of corporate lobbyists, media cut‑outs and intelligence operatives surrounding the White House — and to support independent outlets willing to name names. Readers are encouraged to watch the full interview to see his argument in context and hear the complete exchange with Clayton Morris.

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