The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump’s Rise From the Ashes of 2020

RFK Jr.’s Animal Control • Trump’s 2020 Demons • Vance Has “No Aura” [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump’s Rise From the Ashes of 2020 Good morning. When Donald Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago with his tail between his legs after the 2020 election, his political operation was in shambles and he didn’t know whom he should trust. But all of that changed, as Meridith McGraw [reports]( in an excerpt of her new book, Trump in Exile, when the former president asked Susie Wiles to come aboard and right the ship. It took around two months, McGraw writes, for the veteran GOP operative to transform Trump’s comeback campaign into a well-oiled machine: “Trump agreed to all of her suggestions on the spot.” Elsewhere, Eric Lutz [pillories]( the ex-president for struggling to shake off his 2020-election demons, while Bess Levin [catches]( JD Vance’s wife, Usha, offering up a very sad defense of her husband’s notorious “childless cat ladies” remark. Thanks for reading. [Photo illustration of Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Susie Wiles against a backdrop of Mar-a-Lago]( [The Woman Who Engineered Donald Trump’s Rise From the Ashes of 2020]( By [Meridith McGraw]( [In an excerpt of Trump in Exile, Meridith McGraw reveals how the former president was overwhelmed by the dysfunction his election loss brought upon Mar-a-Lago—until Susie Wiles took the wheel of his comeback campaign. “I don’t know who’s in charge,” he told Wiles. “I need you to fix it.”]( [Read more button](   [Donald Trump Has Nothing Else]( By [Eric Lutz]( [When the ex-president is desperate, he gets stuck on the 2020 election—and racist taunts.]( [Read more button](   [JD Vance’s Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful]( By [Bess Levin]( [She did not touch on his claim that people who don’t have kids are more sociopathic.]( [Read more button](   [Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says He Staged an Elaborate Bear-Cub Murder Scene in Central Park, but Only Because He’d Planned to Eat It Later]( By [Bess Levin]( [The admission follows stories about a worm eating his brain and living with an emu that repeatedly attacked his wife. Also, there was that animal carcass photo.]( [Read more button](   [Kamala Harris’s Campaign Doles Out an Extremely 2024 Diss on JD Vance: “No Aura”]( By [Kase Wickman]( [A TikTok video from the campaign showcases some all-time cringe for the GOP VP candidate.]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast